Belgium gridded population

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‘For those wondering, the three big cities responsible for that spike in the center are Antwerp (North), Brussels (Center) and Charleroi (South).

Also of note, in Wallonia, is the “sillon Sambre-et-Meuse”, the kind of line of higher population density going from the border with France to the border with the Netherlands/Germany, and passing through aforementioned Charleroi, as well as Liège (the big spot in the East). This region, following the rivers Sambre and Meuse (whence its name came) was the industrial heartland of Wallonia. Lots of coal mines, of steel industry. Now hit by unemployment as these sectors dwindled. Basically the rust belt of Belgium’–Pampamiro