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Chièvres

Chieve  (Picard)
Market Place of Chièvres
Market Place of Chièvres
Flag of Chièvres
Flag
Coat of arms of Chièvres
Coat of arms
Chièvres is located in Belgium
Chièvres
Chièvres
Location in Belgium
Country Belgium
Community French Community
Region Wallonia
Province Hainaut
Arrondissement Ath
Area
 • Total 46.91 km2 (18.11 sq mi)
Population
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Postal codes
7950, 7951
Area codes 068
Website www.chievres.be

Chièvres (French pronunciation: [ʃjɛvʁ]; Picard: Chieve) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

On January 1, 2018, Chièvres had a total population of 6,899. The total area is 46.91 km2 which gives a population density of 150 inhabitants per km2. Chièvres Air Base is located in the municipality.

The municipality consists of the following districts: Chièvres, Grosage, Huissignies, Ladeuze, Tongre-Saint-Martin, and Tongre-Notre-Dame.

In 1918 the town was delivered by the 5th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from four years of military occupation during the First World War. The event was commemorated by the naming of one of the town's main streets as Rue Dudley Gordon after the battalion's Lieutenant-Colonel, the Lord Dudley Gordon, who was presented with the key to the town of Chièvres. In return, a present was made to the town of the flag under which the 5th Battalion had fought since 1915.

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The 12th-century chapel of St John the Baptist
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