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Flemish Brabant
Arrondissement Halle-Vilvoorde

Wezembeek-Oppem

Wezembeek-Oppem is a municipality in the province of , in the Flemish region of , 10 kilometres east of the centre of . The municipality only comprises the town of Wezembeek-Oppem proper.
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  • Type: Municipality with 14,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium
  • Also known as: “23103”, “Wesembeek”, “Wesembeek-Ophem”, and “Wesenbeck”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Museum for Central Africa and Africa Palace.

Museum
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , communicating under the name AfricaMuseum since 2018, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in in , Belgium, just outside .

Historic building
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The or Palace of Africa is a neoclassical palace in in , Belgium, just outside . It was originally built in 1897 by order of King Leopold II to house the colonial section of the 1897 International Exposition.

University
UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in , . The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmacy and…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kraainem and Tervuren.

Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality on the outskirts of the Capital Region, administratively belonging to . It began as a rural village, but the expansion of Brussels has led to a fast-paced urbanization of throughout the 20th century, and the municipality has become a popular residence for Eurocrats and expats alike.

Photo: Lviatour, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in on the outskirts of the vast Sonian Forest, south-west of . It is best known as the host town of the Belgian king's summer residence, which is now the Museum for Central Africa, and for the beautiful park surrounding it.

Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the province of , in the Flemish region of . It is located in the Dijleland area, one of the three large recreational areas which together form the Groene Gordel around the .

Wezembeek-Oppem

Latitude
50.8441° or 50° 50′ 39″ north
Longitude
4.4872° or 4° 29′ 14″ east
Population
14,300
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
Open location code
9F26RFVP+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 347082350
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2783738
Wiki­data ID
Q912091
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Wezembeek-Oppem” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Breton: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Bulgarian: “Везембек-Опем”
  • Catalan: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Cebuano: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Chinese: “韋曾貝克-奧珀姆”
  • Chinese: “韦曾贝克-奥珀姆”
  • Dutch: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Dutch: “Wezembeek”
  • Dutch: “Wezenbeek-Oppem”
  • Esperanto: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Finnish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • French: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • German: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Hungarian: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Irish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Italian: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Lithuanian: “Vezembik Opemas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Norwegian: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Persian: “ووزانبئک-اوپم”
  • Polish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Portuguese: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Romanian: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Russian: “Везембек-Оппем”
  • Slovak: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Spanish: “Wezembeek Oppem”
  • Spanish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Swedish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Turkish: “Wezembeek Oppem”
  • Turkish: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Vietnamese: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Volapük: “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wezembeek-Oppem”
  • Zeeuws: “Wezembeek-Oppem”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wezembeek-Oppem”. Photo: David Edgar, CC BY 2.5.