Walhain is a Walloon municipality of Belgium

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...

 located in the province of Walloon Brabant

Walloon Brabant

Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia in Belgium. It borders on the province of Flemish Brabant and the provinces of Liège, Namur and Hainaut . Its capital is Wavre...

. It consists of the former municipalities of Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin

Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin

Nil-Saint-Vincent-Saint-Martin is a former municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium. In 1976 it became part of the municipality of Walhain.The villages of Nil-Saint-Vincent and Nil-Saint-Martin were merged in 1812...

, Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert and Walhain-Saint-Paul.

Walhain is locally famous because, although it is quite a little village, they have two successful national division sport teams.
Firstly, they have a semi-professional football club, RFC Wallonia Walhain CG

RFC Wallonia Walhain CG

Royal Wallonia Walhain Chaumont-Gistoux is a Belgian association football club located in the municipality of Walhain, Walloon Brabant. They have played in the third division since 1997–98. However, in 2006–07, the club could not avoid relegation to the 4th level of Belgian football, i.e...

 playing in the Promotion D, which is the 4th tier of Belgian football league. They unfortunately couldn't avoid relegation in 2007 after more than 10 years in the third division.
They also have a good volleyball club, with both women's and men's teams playing in the second national division (the first division in Belgium being professional).

The Institut Géographique National

Belgian National Geographic Institute

The Belgian National Geographic Institute is the national mapping agency in Belgium.The headquarters are located at La Cambre Abbey in Brussels....

, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that the geographical centre

Geographical centre

In geography, the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of region of the Earth's surface is often known as its geographical centre. There has long been debate over the methods of calculation of the geographical centres of various countries and regions, such as whether to include offshore islands,...

of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at 50°38′28"N 4°40′05"E.