Wallonia
Walloon Brabant
Arrondissement of Nivelles

Wavre

Wavre is a city and municipality of , and the capital of the province of , . Wavre is in the Dyle valley. Most inhabitants speak French as their mother tongue and are called "Wavriens" and "Wavriennes".
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  • Type: Town with 33,500 residents
  • Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Also known as: “25112”, “the City of the Maca”, “Waver”, and “Wavres”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Walibi Belgium and Vampire.

Theme park
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is a 64-hectare theme park located in Wavre, , , , close to the city of . The park complex consists of the titular theme park and the indoor water park that is located next door.

Roller coaster
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Walibi Belgium is a 64-hectare theme park located in Wavre, , , , close to the city of . The park complex consists of the titular theme park and the indoor water park that is located next door.

Roller coaster
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is a roller coaster.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Louvain-la-Neuve and Rixensart.

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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 .

Town
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is a municipality of located in the province of . On January 1, 2018, had a total population of 22,401. is situated 6 km west of Wavre.

Town
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is a city and municipality of located in the . On January 1, 2006, had a total population of 29,521. is situated 6 km southwest of Wavre.

Wavre

Latitude
50.717° or 50° 43′ 1″ north
Longitude
4.6104° or 4° 36′ 38″ east
Population
33,500
Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)
Open location code
9F26PJ86+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60284787
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2783942
Wiki­data ID
Q181314
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wavre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Waver”
  • Afrikaans: “Wavre”
  • Arabic: “وافر”
  • Aragonese: “Wavre”
  • Armenian: “Վավր”
  • Arpitan: “Wavre”
  • Asturian: “Wavre”
  • Basque: “Wavre”
  • Bavarian: “Wavre”
  • Breton: “Wavre”
  • Bulgarian: “Уавър”
  • Catalan: “Wavre”
  • Cebuano: “Wavre (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Wavre”
  • Chavacano: “Wavre”
  • Chinese: “瓦夫尔”
  • Chinese: “瓦夫爾”
  • Corsican: “Wavre”
  • Croatian: “Wavre”
  • Czech: “Wavre”
  • Danish: “Wavre”
  • Dutch: “Waver”
  • Dutch: “Wavre”
  • Dutch: “Wavres”
  • Esperanto: “Wavre”
  • Estonian: “Wavre”
  • Finnish: “Wavre”
  • French: “la cité du Maca”
  • French: “Waver”
  • French: “Wavre”
  • French: “Wavres”
  • Friulian: “Wavre”
  • Galician: “Wavre”
  • German: “Wavre”
  • Greek: “Βαβρ”
  • Greek: “Βάβρ”
  • Hungarian: “Wavre”
  • Icelandic: “Wavre”
  • Ido: “Wavre”
  • Indonesian: “Wavre”
  • Interlingua: “Wavre”
  • Interlingue: “Wavre”
  • Irish: “Wavre”
  • Italian: “Waver”
  • Italian: “Wavre”
  • Japanese: “ワーヴル”
  • Japanese: “ワフェール”
  • Kongo: “Wavre”
  • Korean: “와브르”
  • Korean: “우아브르”
  • Latin: “Vavria”
  • Latin: “Wavre”
  • Latin: “Wavria”
  • Latvian: “Vavra”
  • Ligurian: “Wavre”
  • Limburgan: “Waver”
  • Limburgan: “Wavre”
  • Lithuanian: “Vavras”
  • Lombard: “Wavre”
  • Low German: “Wavre”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wavre”
  • Malagasy: “Wavre”
  • Malay: “Wavre”
  • Minangkabau: “Wavre”
  • Narom: “Wavre”
  • Neapolitan: “Wavre”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wavre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wavre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wavre”
  • Norwegian: “Wavre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wavre”
  • Persian: “وور”
  • Picard: “Auve”
  • Piemontese: “Wavre”
  • Polish: “Wavre”
  • Portuguese: “Wavre”
  • Romanian: “Wavre”
  • Romansh: “Wavre”
  • Russian: “Вавр”
  • Sardinian: “Wavre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wavre”
  • Serbian: “Åve”
  • Serbian: “Vavr”
  • Serbian: “Wåve”
  • Serbian: “Waver”
  • Serbian: “Wavre”
  • Serbian: “Вавр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wavre”
  • Sicilian: “Wavre”
  • Sinhala: “වැව්රේ, බෙල්ජියම”
  • Slovak: “Wavre”
  • Slovenian: “Wavre”
  • Spanish: “Wavre”
  • Swahili: “Waver”
  • Swahili: “Wavre”
  • Swedish: “Waver”
  • Swedish: “Wavre”
  • Swiss German: “Wavre”
  • Turkish: “Waver”
  • Turkish: “Wavre”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавр”
  • Urdu: “واور”
  • Venetian: “Wavre”
  • Vietnamese: “Wavre”
  • Vlaams: “Wavre”
  • Vlaams: “Woaver”
  • Volapük: “Waver”
  • Volapük: “Wavre”
  • Walloon: “Aufe”
  • Walloon: “Åve-el-Roman-Payis”
  • Walloon: “Åve”
  • Walloon: “Wåve”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wavre”
  • Welsh: “Wavre”
  • Western Frisian: “Waver”
  • Wolof: “Wavre”
  • Zeeuws: “Waover”
  • Zeeuws: “Waver”
  • Zulu: “Wavre”
  • “Wavre”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Wavre and bpost Wavre Centre.

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