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Hesbaye

This article is about the geographical region. For the medieval geo-political territory, see Pagus of Hesbaye.
Blooming fruit trees at Kerniel, a typical Hesbayean village in the municipality of Borgloon.
The natural regions of Belgium.

The Hesbaye (French, French pronunciation: [ɛsbɛ]), or Haspengouw (Dutch and Limburgish, Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑspə(ŋ)ˌɣʌu]), is a traditional cultural and geophysical region in eastern Belgium. It is a loamy plateau region which forms a watershed between the Meuse and Scheldt drainage basins. It has been one of the main agricultural regions in what is now Belgium since before Roman times, and specifically named in records since the Middle Ages, when it was an important Frankish pagus or gau, called Hasbania in medieval Latin.

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