Wavre

Wavre is a locality in , , and has about 34,300 residents. Wavre is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the village .
  • Type: Locality with 34,300 residents
  • Description: city in Wavre municipality, Belgium
  • Also known as: “the City of the Maca”, “Waver”, and “Wavres”
  • Postal code: 1300

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wavre railway station and City hall of Wavre.

Railway station
Photo: Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Town hall
Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town hall.

Church
Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rosières and Ottenburg.

Village
Photo: Djozewal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Wavre.

Village
Photo: Wouterhagens, Public domain.
is a village in the municipality of in the province of , Belgium, close to the language border. The prehistoric earthwork, a long barrow known as de Tomme, is located here, identified in 2021 by archaeologists as the oldest such monument known in the Low Countries. is situated 4 km north of Wavre.

Photo: JNélis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a modern town in the province of in the French-speaking part of . It was created in 1969 in order to host the French-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Louvain, which had just seceded from the Dutch-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Leuven, and had to move from to .

Wavre

Latitude
50.71717° or 50° 43′ 2″ north
Longitude
4.60138° or 4° 36′ 5″ east
Population
34,300
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
IATA airport code
ZGV
Open location code
9F26PJ82+VH
Geo­Names ID
2783941
Wiki­data ID
Q21760204
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Walloon—“Wavre” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Уавър”
  • Catalan: “Wavre”
  • Cebuano: “Wavre”
  • Chinese: “瓦夫爾”
  • Dutch: “Waver”
  • Esperanto: “Wavre”
  • French: “la cité du Maca”
  • French: “Waver”
  • French: “Wavre”
  • French: “Wavres”
  • German: “Wavre”
  • Greek: “Βαβρ”
  • Irish: “Wavre”
  • Japanese: “ワーヴル”
  • Korean: “우아브르”
  • Latin: “Vavria”
  • Latin: “Wavre”
  • Latin: “Wavria”
  • Latvian: “Vavra”
  • Limburgan: “Waver”
  • Lithuanian: “Vavras”
  • Norwegian: “Wavre”
  • Persian: “وور”
  • Picard: “Waver”
  • Polish: “Wavre”
  • Romanian: “Wavre”
  • Russian: “Вавр”
  • Serbian: “Вавр”
  • Swedish: “Wavre”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавр”
  • Vlaams: “Waver”
  • Walloon: “Aufe”
  • Walloon: “Åve”
  • Walloon: “Wåve”

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