Cities
The largest cities in the region include, as of 2007's population figures:
- Charleroi (199,612)
- Liège (180,831)
- Namur (106,770)
- Mons (91,367)
- La Louvière (76,657)
- Tournai (67,944)
- Seraing (60,878)
- Verviers (52,646)
- Mouscron (51,866)
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)