Editing Lessines (section)

{{Short description|Municipality in Hainault Province, Belgium}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Lessines
|native_name      = {{native_name|pcd|Lissene}}
|namenl           = Lessen
|picture          = Lessines JPG1 HoNdR.jpg
|picture-legend   =
|map              = Lessines Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = Location of Lessines in Hainaut
|arms             = Blason ville BE Lessines.svg
|flag             = Lessines Belgium.svg
|region           = {{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community        = {{BE-FR}}
|province         = {{BE-PROV-HT}}
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Ath|Ath]]
|nis              = 51069
|pyramid-date     =
|0-19             =
|20-64            =
|65               =
|foreigners       =
|foreigners-date  =
|mayor            = Pascal De Handschutter (PS)
|majority         = [[Socialist Party (Belgium)|PS]] - [[Reformist Movement|ENSEMBLE (MR)]] - [[Les Engagés|OSER cdH]]
|postal-codes     = 7860 '''Lessines''' <br />7861 [[Papignies]]<br /> 7861 [[Wannebecq]]<br />7862 [[Ogy, Belgium|Ogy]]<br />7863 [[Ghoy]]<br />7864 [[Deux-Acren]]<br />7866 [[Bois-de-Lessines]]<br />7866 [[Ollignies]]
|telephone-area   = 068
|web              = {{website|http://www.lessines.be/}}
|coordinates      = {{coord|50|43|N|03|50|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Lessines''' ({{IPA|fr|lɛsin|lang|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Lessines.wav}}; {{langx|pcd|Lissene}}; {{langx|wa|Lissene}}; {{langx|nl|Lessen}} {{IPA|nl|ˈlɛsə(n)||Nl-lessen.ogg}}) is a city and [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Hainaut Province|province of Hainaut]], [[Belgium]]. As of the 2014 census, The municipality's total population was 18,637. The total area is {{convert|72.29|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} which gives a [[population density]] of 247 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

The municipality consists of the following [[deelgemeente|districts]]: [[Bois-de-Lessines]], [[Deux-Acren]], [[Ghoy]], Lessines, [[Ogy, Belgium|Ogy]], [[Ollignies]], [[Papignies]], and [[Wannebecq]].

Lessines is a municipality of [[Picardy Wallonia]]. It is primarily known as the birthplace of the [[Surrealism|surrealist]] painter [[René Magritte]].