Skip to content
Waterloo

File:Maison_communale_Waterloo.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ179034· pop 70· linked from 376 articles

Also known as Waterlô

municipality in Wallonia, Belgium

AI overview

Waterloo is a municipality located in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of southern Belgium. It is primarily known as a residential area near Brussels, though it also has historical significance as the site of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, one of Europe's most famous military conflicts.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

~13 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Waterloo ( French pronunciation: [watɛʁlo] ; Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ; Walloon: Waterlô) is a municipality in Wallonia, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of 21.03 km (8.12 sq mi).

Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels and immediately south of the official language border between Flanders and Wallonia. Waterloo is most famous for being the site of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where Napoleon was defeated in the War of the Seventh Coalition.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waterloo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (11)

On the map