Note: The town was founded in 1970 as a community for the Université Catholique de Louvain, the French-speaking counterpart of the Flemish-speaking Katholieke Universiteit de Leuven. The two universities were once a single institution but it was divided along language lines when the nation of Belgium itself was so divided. Louvain-la-Neuve is located on a group of small hills near Ottignies, around 15 miles south-southwest of old Louvain. The 2003 estimate of its population was 28,500.
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