Charleroi

E95883
city municipality

Charleroi is a major industrial city in the Walloon region of Belgium, historically important as a fortified stronghold and later as a center of coal mining and heavy industry.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Charleroi canonical 38
Charleroi, Belgium 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city ⓘ
municipality ⓘ
airportIATA CRL ⓘ
coordinateLatitude 50.411 ⓘ
coordinateLongitude 4.444 ⓘ
country Belgium ⓘ
demonym Carolo ⓘ
economicSector aeronautics ⓘ
logistics ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ
elevation about 120 meters above sea level ⓘ
fortificationsBuiltBy Vauban ⓘ
foundingDate 1666 ⓘ
governingRegion Wallonia ⓘ
surface form: Walloon Region
hasAirport Brussels South Charleroi Airport ⓘ
hasCulturalVenue Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi ⓘ
Rockerill ⓘ
hasMetro Charleroi Metro ⓘ
hasMuseum BPS22 (Hainaut Province Museum of Fine Arts) ⓘ
Bois du Cazier ⓘ
Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi ⓘ
hasUniversityCampus University of Mons ⓘ
surface form: Université de Mons campus in Charleroi

Université libre de Bruxelles campus in Charleroi ⓘ
historicalRole coal mining center ⓘ
fortified stronghold ⓘ
heavy industry center ⓘ
isRailHub true ⓘ
knownFor coal mining ⓘ
glass industry ⓘ
steel industry ⓘ
locatedIn Hainaut ⓘ
surface form: Hainaut Province

Wallonia ⓘ
locatedOn Sambre ⓘ
surface form: Sambre River
mayorTitle Bourgmestre ⓘ
namedAfter Charles II of Spain ⓘ
notableEvent Bois du Cazier mining disaster of 1956 ⓘ
officialLanguage French ⓘ
parliamentaryConstituency Hainaut ⓘ
partOf French-speaking Community of Belgium ⓘ
surface form: French-speaking Belgium
population approximately 200000 inhabitants ⓘ
postalCodeRange 6000–6044 ⓘ
region Pays Noir ⓘ
sports football ⓘ
sportsTeam R. Charleroi S.C. ⓘ
timeZone Central European Time ⓘ
timeZoneDST Central European Summer Time ⓘ
twinCity Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form: Pittsburgh

Saint-Étienne ⓘ
Wolfsburg ⓘ
urbanAreaPopulation over 400000 inhabitants ⓘ

Referenced by (39)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) → retainedByFrance → Charleroi ⓘ
Georges Lemaître → placeOfBirth → Charleroi ⓘ
Wallonia → largestCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Wallonia → containsCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Brussels South Charleroi Airport → locatedIn → Charleroi ⓘ
Brussels South Charleroi Airport → servesCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Treaty of Nijmegen → restoredTerritory → Charleroi ⓘ
Belgian railway network → connectsCity → Charleroi ⓘ
La Flèche Wallonne → typicalStartLocation → Charleroi ⓘ
La Haye Sainte farm → locatedNorthOf → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: La Haye Sainte
Casteau → hasNearbyCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Hainaut → hasCity → Charleroi ⓘ
La Louvière → locatedNear → Charleroi ⓘ
Fleurus, Hainaut, Belgium → locatedNear → Charleroi ⓘ
Siege of Charleroi (1794) → location → Charleroi ⓘ
Terminal 2 → locatedIn → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Terminal 2 (Brussels South Charleroi Airport)
CRL → locatedIn → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Brussels South Charleroi Airport
CRL → servesCity → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Brussels South Charleroi Airport
EBCI → servesCity → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Brussels South Charleroi Airport
EBCI → locatedIn → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Runway 07/25 → locatedIn → Charleroi ⓘ
Runway 07/25 → servesCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Terminal 1 → location → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Terminal 1 (Brussels South Charleroi Airport)
Charleroi, Pennsylvania → namedAfter → Charleroi ⓘ
this entity surface form: Charleroi, Belgium
Sambre → flowsThrough → Charleroi ⓘ
City of Wodonga → hasSuburb → Charleroi ⓘ
Maubeuge → nearbyCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Himeji → sisterCity → Charleroi ⓘ
Binche → locatedNear → Charleroi ⓘ
Battle of Charleroi → location → Charleroi ⓘ
Brussels–Charleroi Canal → connects → Charleroi ⓘ
Brussels–Charleroi Canal → passesThrough → Charleroi ⓘ
Brussels–Charleroi Canal → terminus → Charleroi ⓘ
Ottignies railway station → connectsTo → Charleroi ⓘ
French-Belgian border region → containsFortifiedTown → Charleroi ⓘ
Seneffe → locatedNear → Charleroi ⓘ
Brussels–Charleroi road → connects → Charleroi ⓘ
Capture of Charleroi → location → Charleroi ⓘ
Mons, Belgium → locatedNear → Charleroi ⓘ
subject surface form: Mons