Charleroi is a city in Hainaut Province, Wallonia, Belgium, in the Sambre River valley about 50 kilometers south of Brussels, with 202,421 inhabitants as of January 2022 and a metropolitan area of 522,522 people as of 2008, Belgium's fifth largest after Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and Ghent. Founded in 1666 by the Spanish governor Francisco Castel Rodrigo and named Charle-roi in honor of the five year old King Charles II of Spain, it grew after the Belgian Revolution of 1830 into a major center for coal, steel and glass manufacturing, earning the nickname Pays Noir, or Black Country; it is now the largest city in Wallonia and home to Brussels South Charleroi Airport, which grew from 210,000 passengers in 1998 to 8.3 million in 2023.
Facts
Area (sq km) Latitude50.416667 degrees north 2 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Charleroi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, population
population of 522,522
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. Charleroi (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.416667, longitude 4.444167
P2046 (area)
area 102.08 sq km
View the Source3. GeoNames: Charleroi - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2800481
50.41136 4.44448 P PPL BE WAL WHT 52 52011 200132 136 Europe/Brussels
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 136 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 4.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 4.25
50.25 4.25 Cfb
Wikidata: Charleroi
Wikidata Q81046, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.