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:
“Satire is born of the cities it denounces.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“This is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people, of all the people, and it must be fought not only on the battlefield but in the cities and the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home and in the heart of every man, woman and child who loves freedom.”
—Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)
“... in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him.... We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)