The province of Antwerp has 286 pétanque courts listed on Mapetanque.be, spread across 58 municipalities. The city of Antwerp alone accounts for 42 courts, followed by Geel with 27. With nearly 1.93 million inhabitants, it is Belgium's most populous province. A fun fact: in Hoboken, the PC Mercurius club has been playing since 1977 in the vaulted casemates of Fort VIII, a 19th-century military fortification turned into an unusual boulodrome.