Wilrijk
Wilrijk is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp. Wilrijk had been a separate municipality before January 1, 1983; the enlarged municipality of Antwerp was decentralized in 2000 and Wilrijk became one of the city's nine districts.- Type: Town with 41,400 residents
- Description: district of the City of Antwerp, Belgium
- Also known as: “Antwerpen (Wilrijk)” and “Wilryck”
- Postal code: 2610
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jain Tempel of Antwerp and Olympisch Stadion.
Jain Tempel of Antwerp
Jain temple
Olympisch Stadion
Stadium
The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, weightlifting and korfball events.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort 6 and Hoboken.
Hoboken
Town
Hoboken is a southern district of the arrondissement and city of Antwerp, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located at the Scheldt river. The name of the district has its origins in Middle Dutch. Hoboken is situated 2½ km northwest of Wilrijk.
Wilrijk
- Categories: municipality section, district of Antwerp, municipality of Belgium, and locality
- Location: Antwerp, Arrondissement of Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.17009° or 51° 10′ 12″ north
Longitude
4.39426° or 4° 23′ 39″ east
Population
41,400
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE WIL
Open location code
9F3659CV+2P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wilrijk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wilrijk”
- Aragonese: “Wilrijk”
- Armenian: “Վիլրեյք”
- Arpitan: “Wilrijk”
- Asturian: “Wilrijk”
- Basque: “Wilrijk”
- Bavarian: “Wilrijk”
- Belarusian: “Вілрэйк”
- Belarusian: “Вільрэйк”
- Breton: “Wilrijk”
- Bulgarian: “Вилрейк”
- Catalan: “Wilrijk”
- Cebuano: “Wilrijk”
- Chinese: “維爾賴克”
- Chinese: “维尔赖克”
- Corsican: “Wilrijk”
- Croatian: “Wilrijk”
- Czech: “Wilrijk”
- Danish: “Wilrijk”
- Dutch: “Wilrijk”
- Esperanto: “Wilrijk”
- Estonian: “Wilrijk”
- Finnish: “Wilrijk”
- French: “Wilrijk”
- Friulian: “Wilrijk”
- Galician: “Wilrijk”
- German: “Wilrijk”
- Greek: “Βίλρεκ”
- Hebrew: “וילריק”
- Hungarian: “Wilrijk”
- Icelandic: “Wilrijk”
- Ido: “Wilrijk”
- Indonesian: “Wilrijk”
- Interlingua: “Wilrijk”
- Interlingue: “Wilrijk”
- Irish: “Wilrijk”
- Italian: “Wilrijk”
- Japanese: “ウィルライク”
- Japanese: “ウィルレイク”
- Kongo: “Wilrijk”
- Latin: “Villariacum”
- Latin: “Wilrica”
- Ligurian: “Wilrijk”
- Limburgan: “Wilrijk”
- Low German: “Wilrijk”
- Luxembourgish: “Wilrijk”
- Malagasy: “Wilrijk”
- Malay: “Wilrijk”
- Minangkabau: “Wilrijk”
- Narom: “Wilrijk”
- Neapolitan: “Wilrijk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilrijk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wilrijk”
- Norwegian: “Wilrijk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wilrijk”
- Persian: “ویلریج”
- Picard: “Wilrijk”
- Piemontese: “Wilrijk”
- Polish: “Wilrijk”
- Portuguese: “Wilrijk”
- Romanian: “Wilrijk”
- Romansh: “Wilrijk”
- Russian: “Вилрейк”
- Sardinian: “Wilrijk”
- Scots: “Wilrijk”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wilrijk”
- Serbian: “Wilrijk”
- Sicilian: “Wilrijk”
- Slovak: “Wilrijk”
- Slovenian: “Wilrijk”
- Spanish: “Wilrijck”
- Spanish: “Wilrijk”
- Swahili: “Wilrijk”
- Swedish: “Wilrijk”
- Swiss German: “Wilrijk”
- Turkish: “Villariacum”
- Turkish: “Wilrijk”
- Urdu: “ولرائیک”
- Venetian: “Wilrijk”
- Vietnamese: “Wilrijk”
- Vlaams: “Wilrijk”
- Vlaams: “Wilryk”
- Volapük: “Wilrijk”
- Walloon: “Wilrijk”
- Welsh: “Wilrijk”
- Wolof: “Wilrijk”
- Yiddish: “ווילרייק”
- Zulu: “Wilrijk”
- “Wilrijk”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Wilrijk-Centrum and De Bist.
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Highlights include Stenen schandpaal and Districtshuis Wilrijk.
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