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Aubange (German: Ibingen, Luxembourgish: Éibeng, Walloon: Åbindje) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the Province of Luxembourg.
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Map of Aubange, Belgium
On 1 January 2012 the municipality, which covers 45.6 km², had 16,042 inhabitants, giving a population density of 330.9 inhabitants per km². It is the third municipality of the Province of Luxembourg regarding the number of inhabitants but it is also among the smallest ones in terms of area.
The municipality is French-speaking but most of which falls within the Luxembourgish-speaking Arelerland, adjoins the tripoint where the borders of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and France meet.
History
Aubange was a municipality itself before the reorganization of the Belgian municipalities in 1977. At that time, it was amalgamated with Athus, Halanzy and Rachecourt to become what exists today. Even though the new municipality took the name Aubange, the biggest place is Athus and it is where most of the services and official buildings are, like the townhall, the police station, the fire station, the post office, etc.
Geography
Aubange is located in the Lorraine region in the south of Belgium just next to France and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Subdivisions
The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Aubange proper, Athus, Halanzy, and Rachecourt.
Other population centers include: Aix-sur-Cloie, Battincourt, and Guerlange.
Population
The following graph represents the growing of the population in the municipality since 1990. The village of Aubange itself contains about 4,000 inhabitants.
Economy
For a long time, Aubange has been linked with siderurgy. There were two big factories in Athus and in Halanzy and also a mine. But because of the concurrence of the foreign markets (especially the ones from Asia and Africa), siderurgy as not profitable anymore and all the factories closed one after another in the whole area.
Now the politics have tried to found new ways to develop the economy. One of the most well-known activities is the Railway Containers Terminal of Athus which deals with thousands of containers each year from the big harbors of the North Sea like Antwerp and Rotterdam to the inland of France, Germany or Luxemburg.
Transports
There are three railway stations in the municipality: in Athus, in and in Halanzy.
The municipality is located nearby the highway E411 which links Brussels to Luxemburg City. It is situated at 30 kilometers from the capital of the Grand-Duchy and from its international airport.