La Hulpe

La Hulpe
Coat of arms of La Hulpe
Location of La Hulpe
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La Hulpe is located in Belgium
La Hulpe
La Hulpe
Location in Belgium
The municipality of La Hulpe in Walloon Brabant
Coordinates: 50°44′N 04°29′E / 50.733°N 4.483°E / 50.733; 4.483
CommunityFrench community
RegionWallonia
ProvinceWalloon Brabant
ArrondissementNivelles
Government
 • MayorChristophe Dister
 • Governing party/iesListe du Bourgmestre
Area
 • Total15.52 km2 (5.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total7,320
 • Density470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Postal codes
1310
NIS code
25050
Area codes02
Websitewww.lahulpe.be

La Hulpe (French pronunciation: [la ylp] ; Dutch: Terhulpen, French pronunciation: [tɛrˈɦʏlpə(n)] ; Walloon: L’ Elpe) is a municipality of Wallonia in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant, 20 km south-east of the centre of Brussels, but only about 3 km from the edge of the Brussels-Capital Region. On January 1, 2007, La Hulpe had a total population of 7,309. The total area is 15.60 km2, including 3 km2 of the Sonian Forest; this gives a population density of 463 inhabitants per km2.

La Hulpe still keeps two hamlets, Gaillemarde in the west and Malaise-Bakenbos in the east. The limits of the latter hamlet and of other parts of La Hulpe were modified when the linguistic border (between French and Dutch) was fixed in 1963.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication's (SWIFT) headquarters are located in La Hulpe.

  1. ^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.