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Ronquières
Ronquières (Ronkière in Walloon) is a village in the municipality of Braine-le-Comte in the Belgian province of Hainaut in the Walloon region.
It is best known as the location of the Ronquières inclined plane on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal. The lower end of the inclined plane is just a few hundred metres from the centre of the village.
The population of the village was 1370 as of January 2006.