Mouscron is a municipality and city in the Walloon province of Hainaut, Belgium, lying on the border with France beside the city of Tourcoing, which belongs to the Lille metropolitan area. The city of Kortrijk in Flanders sits just to its north, and because of this position the municipality offers facilities for its Dutch-speaking minority. The municipality is made up of the districts of Dottignies, Herseaux, Luingne and Mouscron itself. It grew strongly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the textile industry of northern France spread across the frontier, and its symbol is the Hurlu, a figure recalling the Protestant raiders of the sixteenth century Wars of Religion. Mouscron moved from West Flanders to Hainaut in 1963 and was officially recognised as a city in 1986. Its landmarks include the neo-Gothic town hall of 1890 on the Grand Place and the medieval Château des Comtes. National estimates give it about 60,400 inhabitants at the start of 2026.
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Climate Zone Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Belgium: Cities (citypopulation.de)
citypopulation.deMajor Cities table, Mouscron row, Population Estimate 2026-01-01 columnQuote, Major Cities table, Mouscron row, Population Estimate 2026-01-01 column
Mouscron ( Moeskroen) HAI 53,848 54,590 53,513 52,475 55,248 57,391 58,862 60,410
2. 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 50.75, 3.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 3.25
50.75 3.25 Cfb
3. GeoNames: Mouscron - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2790595, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2790595, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
50.74497 3.20639 P PPLA3 BE WAL WHT 54 54007 52069 53 Europe/Brussels
Mouscron (Wikipedia)
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is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut
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is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut
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Mouscron (French pronunciation: [mukʁɔ̃] ; Dutch and West Flemish: Moeskroen, Dutch pronunciation: [muˈskrun] ; Picard and Walloon: Moucron) is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropolitan area.
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