Liège (province)

Liège Official names are Province de Liège (French) and Provinz Lüttich (German). (, , , , , , ) is the easternmost province of the Walloon Region, in Belgium. Its capital is the city of Liège.

It is an area of French and German ethnic groups. Most of its inhabitants speak French and a minority of them speak German.

History
The present province comes from a department created by the French government in the late eighteenth century, the Department of Ourte. In 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon, the eastern part (Eupen, Malmedy, Saint-Vith and four other German municipalities) was given to the Prussian empire.

While maintaining the French administrative borders, King William I of the Netherlands gave back the more traditional names of the provinces instead of the names used by the French. He named the province as Liège, remembering the old principality of Liège, although the region did not correspond much to the old principality.

In 1919, after the Prussian defeat, the cantons Eupen, Malmedy and Saint-Vith were again part of the province of Liège.

Geography
The province of Liège is in southeastern Belgium and borders on (clockwise from the North) the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant (Wallonia), and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg (Flanders).

The province has an area of  and a population of about 1,111,000 in 2022. The province is divided into four arrondissements (arrondissementen in Dutch) with 84 municipalities, 75 French-speaking municipalities and 9 German-speaking municipalities.

With , the Signal de Botrange is the highest point of the province and of Belgium. It is in Waimes, Verviers district.

Rivers
The main river is the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) river; its source is in France, in Champagne-Ardenne and then flows through Belgium by the provinces of Namur and Liège. After , it flows into the North Sea. 

Other rivers in the province are:
 Ourthe, tributary of the Meuse.
 Vesdre, also a tributary of the Meuse.
 Amblève, tributary of the Ourthe.
 Warche, tributary of the Amblève.
 Geer, another tributary of the Meuse.

Administrative divisions
The province of Liège is divided into 4 arrondissements (Huy, Liège, Verviers and Waremme) and a total of 84 municipalities.


+ Municipalities by arrondissements, with their numbers in the map Huy  Liège  Verviers  Waremme 175px
 Amay (1)
 Anthisnes (4)
 Burdinne (15)
 Clavier (19)
 Engis (25)
 Ferrières (29)
 Hamoir (35)
 Héron (36)
 Huy (40)
 Marchin (50)
 Modave (51)
 Nandrin (52)
 Ouffet (56)
 Tinlot (73)
 Verlaine (76)
 Villers-le-Bouillet (78)
 Wanze (81) 175px
 Ans (3)
 Awans (6)
 Aywaille (7)
 Bassenge (9)
 Beyne-Heusay (11)
 Blegny (12)
 Chaudfontaine (18)
 Comblain-au-Pont (20)
 Dalhem (22)
 Esneux (26)
 Flémalle (31)
 Fléron (32)
 Grâce-Hollogne (34)
 Herstal (38)
 Juprelle (42)
 Liège (44)
 Neupré (53)
 Oupeye (57)
 Saint-Nicolas (63)
 Seraing (65)
 Soumagne (66)
 Sprimont (68)
 Trooz (75)
 Visé (79) 175px
 Amel (2)
 Aubel (5)
 Baelen (8)
 Büllingen (14)
 Burg-Reuland (16)
 Bütgenbach (17)
 Dison (23)
 Eupen (27)
 Herve (39)
 Jalhay (41)
 Kelmis (43)
 Lierneux (45)
 Limbourg (46)
 Lontzen (48)
 Malmedy (49)
 Olne (54)
 Pepinster (58)
 Plombières (59)
 Raeren (60)
 Saint-Vith (64)
 Spa (67)
 Stavelot (69)
 Stoumont (70)
 Theux (71)
 Thimister-Clermont (72)
 Trois-Ponts (74)
 Verviers (77)
 Waimes (80)
 Welkenraedt (84) 175px
 Berloz (10)
 Braives (13)
 Crisnée (21)
 Donceel (24)
 Faimes (28)
 Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher (30)
 Geer (33)
 Hannut (36)
 Lincent (47)
 Oreye (55)
 Remicourt (61)
 Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse (62)
 Waremme (82)
 Wasseiges (83)

Population by arrondissement
Population x 1,000 (on 1 January since 1980).Institut national de statistique - Direction générale Statistique et information économique

Arrondissement197019801990200020102020Huy 94 88 93 100 108 114Liège 618 612 590 586 604 626Verviers 240 245 252 266 280 288Waremme 58 61 63 68 76 82Province of Liège 1,009 1,006 998 1,019 1,068 1,110

References

 Other websites 

 Official web site of the Liège province  (in French)
  Bureau des Relations Extérieures de la Province de Liège  (in French, Dutch, German and English)