Walloon Brabant

Walloon Brabant, in French Brabant wallon, is a province in Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia. It borders the province of Flemish Brabant to the north and the provinces of Liege, Namur and Hainaut. Its capital is Wavre, although the municipality of Braine-l'Alleud is slightly more populous. The English Wikipedia article records a provincial population of about 414,000 as of January 2024 and an area of 1,097 square kilometres. The point of inaccessibility for Belgium, the place furthest from any border, lies in the province. The article traces the name to the Old Dutch word for Brabant, a compound meaning fallow district, and to Walloon, an old West Germanic word for a foreigner or speaker of Celtic or Latin, noting that both terms are much older than the modern political entities they name.