{{Short description|City in Walloon Brabant province, Wallonia, Belgium}} {{Infobox Belgium municipality |name = Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve |native_name = {{native_name|wa|Ocgniye-Li Noû Lovén}} |picture = Belgique - Ottignies - maison communale - 01.jpg |picture-legend = The Town Hall |map = Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve Brabant-Wallon Belgium Map.svg |map-legend = The municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve in Walloon Brabant |arms = Blason ville BE Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.svg |flag = Drapeau Ottignies-LLN.svg |arrondissement = Nivelles |nis = 25121 |pyramid-date= |0-19= |20-64= |65= |foreigners= |foreigners-date = |mayor = Julie Chantry (Ecolo) |majority = Ecolo-Avenir-PS |postal-codes = 1340-1342, 1348 |telephone-area = 010 |web = [http://www.olln.be/ www.olln.be] |coordinates = {{coord|50|40|N|04|30|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}} }} '''Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve''' ({{IPA|fr|ɔtiɲi luvɛ̃ la nœv|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.wav}}; {{langx|wa|Ocgniye-Li Noû Lovén}}) is a municipality and city<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loi tendant à accorder le titre de ville à la commune d'Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve |url=https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/loi/1982/04/30/1982000862/moniteur |date=30 April 1982 |lang=fr |website=www.ejustice.just.fgov.be |publisher=Belgian Official Gazette |access-date=24 February 2026}}</ref> of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve had a total population of 29,521. The total area is 32.96 km<sup>2</sup> which gives a population density of 896 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.
The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Ottignies, Louvain-la-Neuve, Céroux-Mousty, and Limelette. Louvain-la-Neuve (sometimes abbreviated as "LLN") is a new town developed from 1968 in order to provide a home for the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), the French-speaking part of the former Catholic University of Louvain on its separation from the Dutch-speaking part, which remained in the ancient city of Louvain (''Leuven'').
==Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park== {{main article|Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park}} Created in 1971, Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park is the first of its kind in Belgium and is the biggest one in Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium). It covers {{convert|231|ha}} spread over the area of the town of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and the municipality of Mont-Saint-Guibert ({{convert|30|km}} away from Brussels).
<gallery> File:Louvain-la-Neuve JPG.jpg|Faculty of Theology, Université catholique de Louvain Image:Vueaerienne2.jpg|Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park </gallery>
==Economy== The Lhoist group, world leader in the lime, dolime and mineral solutions, has its head office in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Limelette).
==Transport== Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is served by the railway stations Ottignies (an important interchange station and one of the busiest stations in Wallonia) and Louvain-la-Neuve.
==Sports==
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is home to the Royal Ottignies Stimont football club (soccer)<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal Ottignies Stimont asbl |url=http://www.royalottigniesstimont.be/|access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref> and the Rugby Ottignies Club (rugby).<ref>{{cite web|title=Rugby Ottignies Club |url=http://www.rugbyottigniesclub.be/|access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref>
==Notable people==
* Noémie Mayombo (born 1991), basketball player
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * [http://www.olln.be/ Municipality Website] * [http://www.llnsciencepark.be The Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park website] * [http://www.llnwebtv.be Louvain-la-Neuve WebTV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303152354/http://llnwebtv.be/ |date=2021-03-03 }} * [http://www.facebook.com/groups/20363292467/ Facebook group for residents of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve] * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Ottignies}}
{{Geographic location |Centre = Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve |N = Rixensart, Wavre |E = Chaumont-Gistoux |S = Court-Saint-Étienne, Mont-Saint-Guibert |SW = Genappe |W = Lasne }} {{Walloon Brabant}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve Category:Cities in Wallonia Category:Municipalities of Walloon Brabant