Charleroi (bel)

Charleroi

Charleroi ranks 2,304th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Saarlouis, Langenburg, and Peshawar. Memorable people born in Charleroi include Georges Lemaître, Chantal Mouffe, and Alexandre Czerniatynski. Memorable people who died in Charleroi include Jean Duvieusart. Charleroi has been the birth place of many soccer players, and physicists and the death place of many politicians. Charleroi is located in Belgium.

Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not far from the border with France. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,462 square kilometres (564 sq mi) with a total population of 522,522 by 1 January 2008, ranking it as the 5th most populous in Belgium after Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, and Ghent. The inhabitants are called Carolorégiens or simply Carolos. Read more on Wikipedia