Wavre
Wavre is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Wavre is in the Dyle valley. Most inhabitants speak French as their mother tongue and are called "Wavriens" and "Wavriennes".- Type: Town with 33,500 residents
- Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “25112”, “Aufe”, “la cité du Maca”, “the City of the Maca”, “Vavria”, “Wåve”, “Wavres”, “Βάβρ”, and “ワフェール”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Walibi Belgium and Loup Garou.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Louvain-la-Neuve and Rixensart.
Rixensart
Town
Rixensart is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. Rixensart is situated 6 km west of Wavre.
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Town
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is a municipality and city… Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is situated 6 km southwest of Wavre.
Wavre
- Categories: Belgian municipality with the title of city, municipality of Belgium, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wavre” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waver”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Wavre”
- Estonian: “Wavre”
- Finnish: “Wavre”
- French: “Wavre”
- Friulian: “Wavre”
- Galician: “Wavre”
- German: “Wavre”
- Greek: “Βαβρ”
- Hindi: “वाव्र”
- Hungarian: “Wavre”
- Icelandic: “Wavre”
- Ido: “Wavre”
- Indonesian: “Wavre”
- Interlingua: “Wavre”
- Interlingue: “Wavre”
- Irish: “Wavre”
- Italian: “Wavre”
- Japanese: “ワーヴル”
- Jèrriais: “Wavre”
- Kongo: “Wavre”
- Korean: “와브르”
- Korean: “우아브르”
- Latin: “Wavria”
- Latvian: “Vavra”
- Ligurian: “Wavre”
- Limburgan: “Waver”
- Lithuanian: “Vavras”
- Lombard: “Wavre”
- Low German: “Wavre”
- Luxembourgish: “Wavre”
- Malagasy: “Wavre”
- Malay: “Wavre”
- Minangkabau: “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: “Vavr”
- Serbian: “Вавр”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wavre”
- Sicilian: “Wavre”
- Sinhala: “වැව්රේ, බෙල්ජියම”
- Slovak: “Wavre”
- Slovenian: “Wavre”
- Spanish: “Wavre”
- Swahili: “Wavre”
- Swedish: “Wavre”
- Swiss German: “Wavre”
- Turkish: “Wavre”
- Ukrainian: “Вавр”
- Urdu: “واور”
- Venetian: “Wavre”
- Vietnamese: “Wavre”
- Vlaams: “Wavre”
- Vlaams: “Woaver”
- Volapük: “Wavre”
- Walloon: “Åve-el-Roman-Payis”
- Walloon: “Åve”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wavre”
- Welsh: “Wavre”
- Western Frisian: “Waver”
- Wolof: “Wavre”
- Zeeuws: “Waover”
- Zeeuws: “Waver”
- Zulu: “Wavre”
- “Wavre”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: carrefour du Fin Bec and Aisémont.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Wavre and bpost Wavre Centre.
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Worth a closer look: Waterloo and Villers-la-Ville.
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