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( French :Brabant Wallon)
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( Dutch :Waals Brabant)
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Image:Walloon Brabant Flagpng
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Image:Armes province brabant wallonpng
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Wavre
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Emmanuel Hendrickx
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1,093
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(1999)
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347,423
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318
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http://wwwbrabantwallonbe/
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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 .
Nivelles District: