Liernu
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Liernu is a subdivision of the Walloon Eghezee
municipality
located in the Belgian
province of Namur
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Liernu is best known for its centuries old Big Oak
Tree 50.584206°N 4.827799°E, one of the largest and oldest in continental Europe
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Liernu had 806 inhabitants as of March 2006, and extends over 625 Ha.
Eghezée
Éghezée is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur. On 1 January 2010 the municipality had 15,169 inhabitants. The total area is 102.81 km², giving a population density of 146.93 inhabitants per km².-External links:*...
municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
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...
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Liernu is best known for its centuries old Big Oak
Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...
Tree 50.584206°N 4.827799°E, one of the largest and oldest in continental Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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Liernu had 806 inhabitants as of March 2006, and extends over 625 Ha.