Kelmis

Infobox Belgium Municipality
name=Kelmis
picture=KelmisView.jpg
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arms=Héraldique Ville be La Calamine.svg


region=BE-REG-WAL
community=BE-DE
province=BE-PROV-LG
arrondissement=Verviers
nis=63040
pyramid-date=
0-19=
20-64=
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foreigners=
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mayor=Mathieu Grosch
majority=CSP-cdH
postal-codes=4720-4728
telephone-area=087
web= [http://www.kelmis.be/ www.kelmis.be]
lat_deg=50
lat_min=42
lon_deg=06
lon_min=00

Kelmis (in French: La Calamine) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. On January 1 2006 Kelmis had a total population of 10,396. The total area is 18.12 km² which gives a population density of 574 inhabitants per km².

The territory around the Vieille Montagne zinc mine in Kelmis was semi-independent during 1816-1919 as Neutral Moresnet.

In the nineteenth century a Low Franconian dialect was spoken in Kelmis. Today Kelmis is bilingual: German and French and one of the nine municipalities of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium.