Amay | |
Picture-Legend: | Place Sainte-Ode |
Map: | Amay Liège Belgium Map.svg |
Map-Legend: | Location of Amay in the province of Liège |
Arms: | Blason Amay.svg |
Flag: | Flag of Amay.svg |
Arrondissement: | Huy |
Nis: | 61003 |
Mayor: | Jean-Michel Javaux (Ecolo) |
Majority: | Ecolo, MR |
Postal-Codes: | 4540 |
Telephone-Area: | 085 |
Web: | www.amay.be |
Coordinates: | 50.55°N 24°W |
Amay (in French pronounced as /amɛ/; Walloon: Ama) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
On 1 January 2006 Amay had a total population of approximately 14,231. The total area is 27.61 km2 which gives a population density of approximately 476 inhabitants per km2. It owes its site to a ford of the Meuse that was still in use in the Middle Ages but had begun as a Gallo-Roman vicus of the civitas Tungrorum (Tongeren).
The municipality consists of the following districts: Amay, Ampsin, Flône, Jehay, and Ombret-Rawsa.
See also: List of protected heritage sites in Amay.