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{{Infobox Belgium Municipality
|name=Dour
|picture=Dour 050817 (10).JPG
|picture-legend=
|map=Dour_Hainaut_Belgium_Map.png
|map-legend=Location of Dour in Hainaut
|arms=Armoiries_Dour.png
|flag=Flag of Dour.png
|region={{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community={{BE-FR}}
|province={{BE-PROV-HT}}
|arrondissement=[[Arrondissement of Mons|Mons]]
|nis=53020
|pyramid-date=
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date=
|mayor=Carlo Di Antonio (DR)
|majority=DR, MR
|postal-codes=7370
|telephone-area=065
|web=[http://www.dour.be/ www.dour.be]
|lat_deg=50
|lat_min=24
|lon_deg=03
|lon_min=47
}}
'''Dour''' is a [[Wallonia|Walloon]] [[municipality]] located in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] province of [[Hainaut (province)|Hainaut]]. On [[1 January]] [[2006]] the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 [[square kilometre|km²]], giving a [[population density]] of 505 inhabitants per km².
Since [[1989]] Dour has hosted the annual [[Dour Festival]], an [[alternative music]] festival.
Dour is often considered the western end of the [[sillon industriel]], the former industrial backbone of [[Wallonia]], home to about two-thirds of the population.
==See also==
{{Wiktionary-inline|dour}}
{{Hainaut}}
[[Category:Municipalities of Hainaut]]
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