Liege Province

Liège Luik ( Dutch ) Liège ( French )
Country:	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Capital:	Liege
Area :	3,862 km²
Residents	1,106,992 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density	287 inhabitants / km²
surface	3,862 km²
Municipalities :	84
Website:	www.provincedeliege.be
NIS code	60000
politics
Governor:	Hervé Jamar ( MR )
Location of the province in Belgium
84 municipalities of the province

The province of Liège ( French Liège , Dutch Luik ^{? / I} ) is one of five Belgian provinces in the Wallonia region . In the west it borders on the province of Walloon Brabant , in the south on the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg , also on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia in the east, in the north on the Dutch province of Limburg and the Flemish regions provinces Limburg and Flemish Brabant .

The province of Liège covers 3862 km² with about 1,090,000 inhabitants; The capital is Liège .

Most of the province of Liège belongs to the French-speaking area and thus to the area of ​​the French Community of Belgium . The easternmost part of the province around the cities of Eupen and Sankt Vith belongs to the German-speaking area and forms the German-speaking community of Belgium .

In comparison with the gross domestic product of the European Union, expressed in purchasing power standards , the province achieved an index of 86 (EU-25: 100) in 2015, significantly lower than the Belgian average of 119. In 2017, the unemployment rate was 10.5% thus above the national average.

Political structure

The province of Liège is divided into districts (arrondissements) and municipalities.

Districts

The province of Liège is divided into four districts. These are in French as arrondissements and in Dutch as arrondissementen referred. Sometimes the term arrondissement is also used in German, although district is the official term.

district	Communities	Residents January 1, 2019	Area km²	Density of population / km²	NIS code
Huy	17th	113,409	659.36	172	61000
Liege	24	624.422	796.87	784	62000
Verviers	29	287,772	2,016.22	143	63000
Waremme	14th	81,389	389.87	209	64000
Liege Province	84	1,106,992	3,862.32	287	60000

See also : List of districts in Belgium

Communities

The province comprises a total of 84 municipalities (see info box for the location of the municipality in the province):

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

See also : List of former municipalities in the province of Liège  and List of municipalities in Wallonia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved April 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Unemployment rate, by NUTS 2 regions. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .