Hainaut Province

Hainaut (Henegouwen, ; Hennegau; Hinnot; Hénau; Hainault) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium.

It borders (clockwise from the North) in Belgium on the provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant (Flanders) and those of Walloon Brabant and Namur (Wallonia), and on France.

It has an area of 3,800 km² which is divided into seven administrative districts (arrondissements) containing 69 municipalities. Its capital is Mons.

The province derives from the French Revolutionary Jemmape department, formed in 1795 from most of the medieval County of Hainaut, Tournai and the Tournaisis, a part of the county of Namur (Charleroi) and of the Bishopric of Liège (Thuin).

Ath District

 * Ath
 * Belœil
 * Bernissart
 * Brugelette
 * Chièvres
 * Ellezelles
 * Flobecq
 * Frasnes-lez-Anvaing

Charleroi District

 * Aiseau-Presles
 * Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
 * Charleroi
 * Châtelet
 * Courcelles
 * Farciennes
 * Fleurus
 * Fontaine-l'Evêque
 * Gerpinnes
 * Les Bons Villers
 * Manage
 * Montigny-le-Tilleul
 * Pont-à-Celles
 * Seneffe

Mons District

 * Boussu
 * Colfontaine
 * Dour
 * Frameries
 * Hensies
 * Honnelles
 * Jurbise
 * Lens
 * Mons
 * Quaregnon
 * Quévy
 * Quiévrain
 * Saint-Ghislain

Mouscron District

 * Comines-Warneton
 * Mouscron

Soignies District

 * Braine-le-Comte
 * Ecaussinnes
 * Enghien
 * La Louvière
 * Le Roeulx
 * Lessines
 * Silly
 * Soignies

Thuin District

 * Anderlues
 * Beaumont
 * Binche
 * Chimay
 * Erquelinnes
 * Estinnes
 * Froidchapelle
 * Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes
 * Lobbes
 * Merbes-le-Château
 * Momignies
 * Morlanwelz
 * Sivry-Rance
 * Thuin

Tournai District

 * Antoing
 * Brunehaut
 * Celles
 * Estaimpuis
 * Leuze-en-Hainaut
 * Mont-de-l'Enclus
 * Pecq
 * Péruwelz
 * Rumes
 * Tournai

Governors

 * Jean-Baptiste Thorn (1836–1841)
 * Charles Liedts (1841–1845)
 * Édouard Mercier (1845–1847)
 * Augustin Dumon-Dumortier (1847–1848)
 * Adolphe de Vrière (1848–1849)
 * Louis Troye (1849–1870)
 * Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1870–1878)
 * Auguste Wanderpepen (1878)
 * Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem (1878–1884)
 * Auguste Vergote (1884–1885)
 * Joseph d'Ursel (1885–1889)
 * Charles d'Ursel (1889–1893)
 * Raoul du Sart de Bouland (1893–1908)
 * Maurice Damoiseaux (1908–1937)
 * Henri Van Mol (1937–1940)
 * Émile Cornez (1944–1967)
 * Emilien Vaes (1967–1983)
 * Michel Tromont (1983–2004)
 * Claude Durieux (2004 – present day)