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== Geography == Florenville is a [[City status in Belgium|city]] and [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] in the [[Wallonia]] [[Regions of Belgium|region]].<ref name="Info"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Loi accordant le titre de ville à la commune de Florenville|url=https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/loi/1997/09/08/1997000707/moniteur|date=8 September 1997|lang=fr|work=[[Belgian Official Gazette]]|access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref> It is one of the ten municipalities in the [[Arrondissements of Belgium|arrondissement]] of [[Arrondissement of Virton|Virton]] in the [[Provinces of Belgium|province]] of [[Luxembourg (Belgium)|Luxembourg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uvcw.be/communes/infos-com-896-ville-de-florenville.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802131419/http://uvcw.be/communes/infos-com-896-ville-de-florenville.htm|title=Union des Villes et Communes Wallones|lang=fr|archive-date=2 August 2016|work=UVCW}}</ref><ref name="Virton">{{cite web|url=https://citypopulation.de/en/belgium/luxembourg/85000__virton/|title=Virton|work=Citypopulation.de|access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref> It is located in the southwest part of the country and shares a {{cvt|50|km}} international border with France. The [[Semois]] river flows through the north of the city.<ref name="Floren">{{cite web|url=https://www.florenville.org/en/|title=Florenville|work=Syndicat d'initiative de Florenville sur Semois|access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref> It borders the municipalities of [[Chiny]], [[Herbeumont]], [[Bouillon, Belgium|Bouillon]], and [[Meix-devant-Virton]].<ref name="Floren"/> Spread across an area of {{cvt|148.1|km2}}, the municipality incorporates the seven [[deelgemeente|districts]] of [[Chassepierre]], Florenville, Fontenoille, [[Lacuisine]], [[Muno, Belgium|Muno]], [[Sainte-Cécile, Belgium|Sainte-Cécile]], and [[Villers-devant-Orval]].<ref name="Info"/><ref name="Floren"/> In 2021, the municipality had a population of 5,687 inhabitants.<ref name="Info"/> It is the second largest municipality by population in the Virton arrondissement.<ref name="Virton"/>
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