city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region

Charleroi (Walloon: Tchålerwè) is the first city and municipality of Wallonia in the Walloon province of Hainaut, Belgium. On January 1 2006, Charleroi had a total population of 201,300. The agglomeration has a population of around 500,000.

A dreary and dirty Wallonian steel town whose steady decline in fortunes was accelerated by a visit from the English national soccer team during Euro 2000.