KnowraHainaut ProvinceHainaut ProvinceA province in Wallonia, southwestern Belgium, bordering France and including Mons, Charleroi, and Tournai.BriefConnectWallonia: The French-speaking southern region of Belgium, comprising five provinces. Hainaut is one of Wallonia’s five provinces.County of Hainaut: A medieval and early modern principality in the Low Countries, centered on the region around Mons. The modern province takes its name from this historic territory.Borinage: A former coal-mining district in western Hainaut, near Mons. Its coal industry helped drive Hainaut’s nineteenth-century industrial growth.Nord (French department): A department in northern France, bordering Belgium and including Lille and Dunkirk. It shares Hainaut’s international border and longstanding regional ties.Mons: A city in southwestern Belgium and the capital of Hainaut Province. Mons is the provincial capital and seat of its institutions.Southern Netherlands: The historic territories of the Low Countries that largely correspond to modern Belgium and Luxembourg. Hainaut’s earlier political history unfolded within these changing territories.Charleroi coal basin: A historic coalfield in the Sambre valley around Charleroi, Belgium. Coal extraction transformed the province’s economy and urban landscape.Flanders: The Dutch-speaking northern region of Belgium, comprising five provinces. Flanders borders Hainaut to the north and east.Charleroi: A major city in Wallonia, Belgium, historically associated with coal mining and steelmaking. It is Hainaut’s largest city and a major urban center.Treaty of Utrecht: A set of 1713 agreements that ended major parts of the War of the Spanish Succession and redistributed territories. Its settlement transferred much of the historic county to the Austrian Habsburgs.Show all 21Linked from 3 pagesEast FlandersRelated: It meets East Flanders at the provincial boundary to the south.Liège ProvinceCompared with: It is another Walloon province but lies west of Liège Province and has different borders.Show all 3