Walhain

Walhain
Municipality
Ruins of Walhain castle (12th century)
Coat of arms
Walhain Location in Belgium
The municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant
Coordinates: 50°38′N 04°42′E / 50.633°N 4.700°E / 50.633; 4.700Coordinates: 50°38′N 04°42′E / 50.633°N 4.700°E / 50.633; 4.700
Country	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonia
Province	Walloon Brabant
Arrondissement	Nivelles
Government
• Mayor	Laurence Smets (WAL1 [PS])
• Governing party/ies	IC
Area
• Total	37.94 km2 (14.65 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2016)
• Total	6,997
• Density	180/km2 (480/sq mi)
Postal codes	1457
Area codes	010
Website	www.walhain.be

Walhain (Walloon: Walin) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Walloon Brabant. It consists of the former municipalities of Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert and Walhain-Saint-Paul.

The Belgian National Geographic Institute, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that the geographical centre of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at 50°38′28″N 4°40′05″E / 50.64111°N 4.66806°E / 50.64111; 4.66806 (Geographical centre of Belgium).

Walhain-Saint-Paul, Walhain, Sart-lez-Walhain, Nil-Saint-Vincent, Nil-Saint-Martin, Nil-Pierreux, Lerinnes, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert, Tourinnes les Ourdons et Perbais

Walhain has two successful national division sport teams:

Firstly, they have a semi-professional football club, RFC Wallonia Walhain CG playing in the Promotion D, which is the 4th tier of Belgian football league. They unfortunately couldn't avoid relegation in 2007 after more than 10 years in the third division.