Libin is a Walloon municipality

Municipality

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 of Belgium

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 located in the province of Luxembourg.

On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 139.72 km², had 4,655 inhabitants, giving a population density

Population density

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 of 33.3 inhabitants per km².

The municipality includes, as well as the town of Libin itself, the villages of Anloy, Ochamps, Redu

Redu

Redu is a village in the municipality of Libin, in Luxembourg province, Belgium. The village is twinned with Hay-on-Wye in the United Kingdom and it is one of the very first book towns....

, Smuid, Transinne, and Villance.

Redu is famous for its bookshops, and for hosting a large European Space Agency

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 ground station

Earth station

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.