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Lessines

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City in Hainaut Province, Wallonia, Belgium

Lessines (French: [lɛsin]; Picard: Lissene; Walloon: Lissene; Dutch: Lessen ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As of the 2014 census, The municipality's total population was 18,637. The total area is 72.29 km2 (27.91 sq mi) which gives a population density of 247 inhabitants per km2.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • HeadquartersLessines, Belgium1
  • Websitewww.lessines.be
  • Legal formCities and municipalities1
  • Kind of organizationGovernment entity1
  • LEI549300DYRM90TU17TP293
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressGrand'Place(L) 12, 7860 Lessines, Belgium3
  • Registered withFederal Public Service Economy (Ministry of Economy), 02072971163

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Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Lessines (French: [lɛsin]; Picard: Lissene; Walloon: Lissene; Dutch: Lessen [ˈlɛsə(n)] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. As of the 2014 census, The municipality's total population was 18,637. The total area is 72.29 km2 (27.91 sq mi) which gives a population density of 247 inhabitants per km2.2

The story

Postal history

The Lessines post office opened before 1830. It used postal code 71 with bars (before 1864), and 214 with points before 1874. Deux-Acren post office opened on 15 May 1866. It used postal code 104 with points before 1874. The Papignies post office opened on 18 February 1880, Ghoy and Ollignies on 25 May 1905, and Ogy on 5 November 1907.

Postal codes in 1969: 7850 Ollignies - 7851 Bois-de-Lessines - 7860 Lessines - 7861 Papignies - 7862 Ogy - 7863 Ghoy - 7870 Deux-Acren

Postal codes since at least 1990: 7860 Lessines - 7861 Papignies, Wannebecq (not opened in 1969) - 7862 Ogy - 7863 Ghoy - 7864 Deux-Acren - 7866 Bois-de-Lessines, Ollignies

From Wikipedia’s article on Lessines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 1968Founded Lessines is founded3

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