Comines-Warneton

Comines-Warneton is a Belgian city and municipality inside the Walloon province of Hainaut. On January 1, 2006, it had a complete populace of 17,562. Its overall region is 61.09 km2 which gives a population density of 287 population in line with square kilometre. The call "Comines" is believed to have a Celtic, or Gaulish, origin. Comines-Warneton is a municipality with language facilities for Dutch-audio system. The municipality of Comines-Warneton includes the conventional villages of Comines, Comines-ten-Brielen, Houthem, Warneton, Bas-Warneton, Ploegsteert and Le Bizet.

They had been all transferred in 1963 from the arrondissement of Ypres in the Dutch-talking province of West Flanders to the newly created arrondissement of Mouscron in French-talking Hainaut. Since then, the municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West-Flanders and the French department of Nord and no longer linked to the relaxation of the French-speaking area of Belgium. Comines-Warneton is twinned with Hedge End in England and with Argenton-les-Vallees in France.