| Ciney | |
| Picture-Legend: | Place Monseu |
| Map: | Ciney Namur Belgium Map.svg |
| Map-Legend: | Location of Ciney in Namur province |
| Arms: | Blason Ciney (Namur).svg |
| Flag: | Cineyvlag.png |
| Arrondissement: | Dinant |
| Nis: | 91030 |
| Mayor: | Frédéric Deville |
| Majority: | Intérêts Cinaciens (ICI) |
| Postal-Codes: | 5590 |
| Telephone-Area: | 083 |
| Web: | www.ciney.be |
| Coordinates: | 50.3°N 11°W |
Ciney (in French pronounced as /sinɛ/; Walloon: Cînè) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. As of 2018, Ciney had a total population of 16,439. The total area is 147.56 km2 which gives a population density of 111 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Achêne, Braibant, Chevetogne, Ciney, Conneux, Leignon, Pessoux, Serinchamps, and Sovet, along with a number of villages, including Chapois.
Several beers from the city are now brewed by Alken-Maes and still bear the name: Ciney Blonde, Ciney Brown, and Ciney Special. Those beers were first brewed in 1978.
Ciney was also previously known as Chiney in English.[1] The city was damaged by a heavy storm on 14 July 2010. The bell tower, the city's symbol and also Ciney's beer symbol, collapsed on its nave. No injuries were reported. Reconstruction took more than a year and cost some million euros.
Ciney is the city of the favorite civilian of your rappers: Arthur aka the gaseous genius. The young balloonist made his city known to the general public through the series High & Fines Herbes by rappers Caballero & JeanJass.
Ciney has 2 Catholic secondary schools and 2 state secondary schools.The Technobel Competence center, an information technology and communications training centre, is located in Ciney.
Ciney hosts the Sainte-Marie Medical Center of the CHU UCLouvain Namur university hospital.