Namur Province

Namur Official name is Province de Namur (French). (, , , , ) is a province of Belgium on the border with France. It is one of the five provinces of Wallonia, the predominantly French-speaking southern region of Belgium.

History
The origin of the province of Namur goes back to 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands and the Principality of Liège joint the French Republic; they were made part of the old department of Sambre-et-Meuse.

At the fall of the First French Empire, the department is dissolved and replaced by the Province of Namur, at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. The province of Namur was one of the province created by the Constitution of 24 August 1815 of the Kingdom.

When the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ended after the 1830 Belgian Revolution, the province of Namur became part of the new Kingdom of Belgium.

Geography
Namur borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France.

The total area of the province is  with a population of about 499,000 in 2022. The highest point of the province is Croix-Scaille, with an altitude of  () above sea level.

Its capital is the city of Namur; other important cities are Dinant, Philippeville, Gembloux, Ciney and Andenne.

Administrative division
The province of Namur is divided into 3 arrondissements and a total of 38 municipalities.


+ Municipalities by arrondissements, with their numbers in the mapDinant Namur Philippeville 175px
 Anhée (2)
 Beauraing (4)
 Bièvre (5)
 Ciney (7)
 Dinant (9)
 Gedinne (16)
 Hamois (19)
 Hastière (20)
 Havelange (21)
 Houyet (22)
 Onhaye (28)
 Rochefort (31)
 Somme-Leuze (34)
 Vresse-sur-Semois (36)
 Yvoir (38) 175px
 Andenne (1)
 Assesse (3)
 Eghezée (11)
 Fernelmont (12)
 Floreffe (13)
 Fosses-la-Ville (15)
 Gembloux (17)
 Gesves (18)
 Jemeppe-sur-Sambre (23)
 La Bruyère (24)
 Mettet (25)
 Namur (26)
 Ohey (27)
 Profondeville (30)
 Sambreville (32)
 Sombreffe (33) 175px
 Cerfontaine (6)
 Couvin (8)
 Doische (10)
 Florennes (14)
 Philippeville (29)
 Viroinval (35)
 Walcourt (37)

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

Arrondissement197019801990200020102020Dinant 84 89 93 100 106 111Namur 237 258 269 283 301 318Philippeville 59 57 59 61 65 66Province of Namur 381 404 421 444 472 496

References

Other websites

 The province's official site
 Fédération du tourisme de la Province de Namur