Gedinne is a Walloon municipality

Municipality

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 located in the Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 province of Namur

Namur (province)

Namur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...

. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 4,405 inhabitants. The total area is 151.56 km², giving a population density

Population density

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 of 29 inhabitants per km².

The Tour du Millénaire

Tour du Millénaire

The tour du millénaire is a vantage point built in 2001 in Gedinne, Belgium just meters away from the French border....

, a remarkable timber and steel observation tower, was erected near Gedinne in 2001.

The village of Willerzie

Willerzie

Willerzie is a village in the Belgian municipality of Gedinne, in Wallonia....

is located in the municipality.