Florenville (;

Gaumais Lorrain is a language (often referred to as patois) spoken by now a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It is a langue d'oïl. It is classified as a regional language of France and has the ...

: ''Floravile'') is a city and

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

located in the

province of Luxembourg Luxembourg (french: Luxembourg ; nl, Luxemburg ; german: Luxemburg ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; wa, Lussimbork), also called Belgian Luxembourg, is the southernmost province of Wallonia and of Belgium. It borders on the country of Luxembourg to the ea ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. On 1 January 2016 the municipality had 5,639 inhabitants. The total area is 146.91 km², giving a

population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ...

of 38.38 inhabitants per km². It is located on the

Semois The Semois (; ''Simwès'' in Walloon, often under elided form ''Smwès''; ''Semoy'', ''Sesbach'' in German, ''Setzbaach'' in Luxemburgish of Arlon; and known as the ''Semoy'' in France) is a river flowing from the Ardennes uplands of Belgium and ...

River, facing the French border. The municipality consists of the following

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

Chassepierre Chassepierre (Gaumais: ''Tchespire'') is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Florenville, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It was a fully-fledged municipality before the 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipa ...

, Florenville, Fontenoille,

Lacuisine Lacuisine (Gaumais: ''La Keûjine'') is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Florenville, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. Prior to the merger of municipalities in 1977, Lacuisine was an independent munici ...

, Muno, Sainte-Cécile, and

Villers-devant-Orval Florenville (; Gaumais: ''Floravile'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2016 the municipality had 5,639 inhabitants. The total area is 146.91 km², giving a population dens ...

. Other population centers include: Azy, Conques, Laiche, Martué, Lambermont, Le Ménil, and Watrinsart.

Orval Abbey Orval Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval) is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1132 in the Gaume region of Belgium and is located in Villers-devant-Orval, part of Florenville, Wallonia in the province of Luxembourg. The abbey is well known for it ...

is located in Villers-devant-Orval.

References

Union des Villes et Communes Wallones

SPF Economy

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Florenville official website
Cities in Wallonia Municipalities of Luxembourg (Belgium) {{LuxembourgBE-geo-stub

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