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  LocalNameInLanguage1 ( French :Brabant Wallon)
  LocalNameInLanguage2 ( Dutch :Waals Brabant)
  LocalNameInLanguage3
  Flag Image:Walloon Brabant Flagpng
  Coatofarms Image:Armes province brabant wallonpng
  Capital Wavre
  Governor Emmanuel Hendrickx
  Area 1,093
  Population As Of (1999)
  Population 347,423
  Populationdensity 318
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  Officialsite http://wwwbrabantwallonbe/


Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia and of Belgium . It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant , Liège , Namur and Hainaut . Its capital is Wavre . It has an area of 1,093 km² and contains only one administrative district (''arrondissement'' in French ) with 27 municipalities.

Walloon Brabant was created in Capital Region, which no longer belongs to any province. The split was made to accommodate the eventual division of Belgium in three regions ( Flanders , Wallonia and Brussels).

The provincial population was recorded at 347,423 in January 1999, giving a population density of 318 inhabitants / km²

The history of Brabant is at Brabant ; see also Duke Of Brabant .

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