CHARLEROY, a city, the head of a department of the same name, in the province of Hennegou, in the Netherlands. The department is divided into nine cantons, and contains 140 communes, with 92,249 inhabitants. The city is built on both banks of the Sambre, is strongly fortified, and has 650 houses, with 4020 inhabitants. There are many nails and other articles of iron manufactured here, and some woollen cloths. In the neighbourhood are glass-houses, iron foundries, and very extensive coal mines.