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Comines-Warneton

City in Hainaut Province, Wallonia, Belgium

Field	Value
name	Comines-Warneton
native_name
picture	Comines-Warneton JPG01.jpg
picture-legend	Comines-Warneton town hall
map	Comines-Warneton Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
map-legend	Location of Comines-Warneton in Hainaut
arms	CommunesBelgique-Comines.svg
flag	Comines-Warneton Belgium.svg
province	Hainaut
arrondissement	Tournai-Mouscron
nis	57097
mayor	Alice Leeuwerck
majority	Ensemble (MR), Ecolo, MCI
postal-codes	7780-7784
telephone-area	056
web	www.villedecomines-warneton.be
coordinates

|picture-legend = Comines-Warneton town hall |map-legend = Location of Comines-Warneton in Hainaut |postal-codes = 7780-7784 |telephone-area = 056 Comines-Warneton (; ; ; ; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is contiguous with the identically named Comines on the other side of the border with France.

On 1 January 2006 it had a total population of 17,562. Its total area is 61.09 km2 which gives a population density of 287 PD/sqkm. 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.

Comines-Warneton is twinned with Hedge End in England and with Argenton-les-Vallées in France.

Famous inhabitants

Johannes Despauterius, humanist
Frank Vandenbroucke, cyclist
Gustave Singier, painter
Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven, painter

Twin towns

Hedge End, England
Wolverton, England

References

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