- Walhain
Infobox Belgium Municipality
name=Walhain
picture=
picture-
map-
arms=Coat of Armes Walhain.png
region=BE-REG-WAL
community=BE-FR
province=BE-PROV-BW
arrondissement=Nivelles
nis=25124
pyramid-date
0-19=
20-64
65
foreigners=
foreigners-date
mayor=Laurence Smets (WAL1 [PS] )
majority=IC
parties=IC WAL-UNEcolo
postal-codes=1457
telephone-area=010
web= [http://www.walhain.be/ www.walhain.be]
lat_deg=50
lat_min=38
lon_deg=04
lon_min=42Walhain is a Walloon municipality of
Belgium located in the province ofWalloon Brabant . It consists of the former municipalities ofNil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin ,Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert andWalhain-Saint-Paul .Walhain is a little bit famous because, although it is quite a little village, they have two successful national sports clubs.Firstly, they have a semi-professional football club,
RFC Wallonia Walhain CG playing in the third Belgian division which unfortunately couldn't avoid relegation in 2007 and will be playing in Promotion D next season.They also have a good volleyball club, with both women's and men's teams playing in the second national division (the first division in Belgium being professional).The Institut Géographique National, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that the
geographical centre of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at coord|50|38|28|N|4|40|05|E|region:BE_type:landmark|name=Geographical centre of Belgium.cite web |url=http://www.walhain.be/template.asp?m=2&sm=3&smenu=Centre%20g%E9ographique&tmp=4 |title=Centre géographique - Le Site |language=French |publisher=Municipality of Walhain |accessdate=2007-03-09]References
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