Liège

Liège
Liège
	Municipality
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	Liège Location in Belgium The municipality o Liège in the province o Liège
	Coordinates: 50°38′N 05°34′E / 50.633°N 5.567°ECoordinates: 50°38′N 05°34′E / 50.633°N 5.567°E
Kintra	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonie
Province	Liège
Arrondissement	Liège
Govrenment
• Mayor	Willy Demeyer (PS)
• Govrenin pairty/ies	PS – cdH
Area
• Total	68.65 km2 (26.51 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2017)
• Total	197,885
• Density	2,900/km2 (7,500/sq mi)
Postal codes	4000–4032
Area codes	04
Website	www.liege.be

Liège (French pronunciation: [ljɛːʒ]; Dutch: Luik, [lœyk] ( listen); Walloon: Lidje; German: Lüttich; Laitin: Leodium; Limburgish: Luuk; Luxembourgish: Léck; til 17 September 1946^[2]^[3]^[4] the ceety's name wis written [Liége] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help), wi the acute accent insteid o a grave accent) is a major ceety an municipality o Belgium locatit in the province o Liège, o whilk it is the economic caipital, in Wallonie, the French-speakin region o Belgium.

International relations[eedit | eedit soorce]

Liège is twinned wi:

Aachen, Germany Cologne, Germany Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Lille, Fraunce^[5] Kraków, Poland Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic o Congo Maastricht, Netherlands Nancy, Fraunce		Plzeň, Czech Republic Porto, Portugal^[6] Rotterdam, Netherlands Saint-Louis, Senegal Szeged, Hungary Tangier, Morocco Turin, Italy^[7] Volgograd, Roushie

↑ Population per municipality as of 1 January 2017 (XLS; 397 KB)
↑ The Book Collector. Vol. 8 (1959), p. 10.
↑ Room, Adrian. 2006. Placenames of the World. 2nd ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., p. 219.
↑ "Liège". 1991. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropædia. Vol. 7. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, p. 344.
↑ "Lile Facts & Figures". Mairie-Lille.fr. Archived frae the original on 10 Februar 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
↑ "International Relations of the City of Porto" (PDF). 2006–2009 Municipal Directorateofthe PresidencyServices InternationalRelationsOffice. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 13 Januar 2012. Retrieved 10 Julie 2009.
↑ Turin City Hall – International Affairs (in Inglis) Retrieved on 2008-01-26.