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Historically Belgian Limburg is roughly equivalent to the Dutch-speaking part of the secular lordship of the medieval Prince-Bishopric of Liège, which was dominated by the County of Loon. The province of Limburg has an area of 2,427 km 2 (937 sq mi) which comprises three arrondissements (arrondissementen in Dutch) containing 44 municipalities.
Oudsbergen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʌutsˌbɛrɣə(n)]; Limburgish: Audsberge [ˈawtsbæʀ(ə)ɣə]) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg that arose on 1 January 2019 from the merging of the municipalities of Opglabbeek and Meeuwen-Gruitrode. The merged municipality has an area of 116.24 km 2 and a population of 23,520 people ...
The municipal councils definitively approved the merger on 18 December 2017. Neerpelt and Overpelt thus ceased to exist on 31 December 2018. A day later, on 1 January 2019, Pelt officially became a new municipality in Limburg. [3] The merged municipality has an area of 83.63 km 2 and counts more than 32,000 inhabitants.
Hamont-Achel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦaːmɔnt ˈɑxəl]; Limburgish: Haëmet-Achel) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg.It was founded in 1977 by a fusion of the city Hamont and the village Achel.
As (Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1, 2006, As had a total population of 7,497. The total area is 22.07 km 2 which gives a population density of 340 inhabitants per km 2.
Belgium comprises 581 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten; French: communes; German: Gemeinden), 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262 others in five provinces in Wallonia, while the remaining 19 are in the Brussels Capital Region, which is not divided in provinces. In most cases, the municipalities are the smallest ...
Arrondissements of Belgium are subdivisions below the provinces of Belgium.There are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.
Lommel (Dutch pronunciation:) is a municipality and a city in the Belgian province of Limburg.The Kempen city has about 34,000 inhabitants and is part of the electoral district and the judicial district Lommel Neerpelt.