Wakken
Wakken is a village and deelgemeente in Dentergem municipality, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The village is located near the confluence of the rivers Lys and Mandel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Geert.Desmet.Dentergem, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,800 residents
- Description: section of Dentergem, Belgium
- Also known as: “Wacken”
- Postal code: 8720
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sint-Pieter en Sint-Catharinakerk and Kasteel van Wakken.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oeselgem and Sint-Eloois-Vijve.
Wielsbeke
Village
Photo: Foroa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wielsbeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Ooigem, Sint-Baafs-Vijve and Wielsbeke proper. On January 1, 2018, Wielsbeke had a total population of 9,584. The total area is 21.76 km. Wielsbeke is situated 3 km southwest of Wakken.
Wakken
- Categories: municipality section and locality
- Location: Dentergem, Arrondissement of Tielt, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.93078° or 50° 55′ 51″ northLongitude
3.39787° or 3° 23′ 52″ eastPopulation
2,800Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE WAKOpen location code
9F25W9JX+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 469926601OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vlaams—“Wakken” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Wakken”
- Cebuano: “Wakken”
- Chinese: “比利時的瓦肯”
- Dutch: “Wakken”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واكين”
- Estonian: “Wakken”
- French: “Wakken”
- German: “Wakken”
- Hungarian: “Wakken”
- Irish: “Wakken”
- Italian: “Wakken”
- Luxembourgish: “Wakken”
- Persian: “واکن”
- Polish: “Wakken”
- Russian: “Ваккен”
- Spanish: “Wakken”
- Swedish: “Wakken”
- Vlaams: “Wakken”
- Vlaams: “Wakkn”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include bpost and Begraafplaats Wakken.
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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 “Wakken”. Photo: Geert.Desmet.Dentergem, CC BY-SA 3.0.