Comines-Warneton, Province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
🇧🇪 Comines-Warneton is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Bas-Warneton, Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, and Warneton (including the hamlet of Gheer). The municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West Flanders and the French department of Nord and not connected to the rest of the French-speaking area of Belgium. The name "Comines" is believed to have a Celtic, or Gaulish, origin. Comines-Warneton is a municipality with language facilities for Dutch-speakers.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Bas-Warneton, Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, and Warneton (including the hamlet of Gheer). They were all transferred in 1963 from the arrondissement of Ypres in the Dutch-speaking province of West Flanders to the newly created arrondissement of Mouscron in French-speaking Hainaut. The five municipalities (Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, Bas-Warneton, Warneton) were merged into a single Comines-Warneton municipality in 1977. Since then, the municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West Flanders and the French department of Nord and not connected to the rest of the French-speaking area of Belgium.
Europe/Brussels/Hainaut_Province
Comines-Warneton has a population of over 18,063 people. Comines-Warneton also forms part of the wider Tournai-Mouscron Arrondissement which has a population of over 223,553 people. It is also a part of the larger Hainaut Province. Comines-Warneton is situated 19 km north-west of Lille.
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