Ostend
Ostend is a locality in Ostend, West Flanders, Flanders and has about 69,000 residents. Ostend is situated nearby to the locality Kontredam, as well as near the suburb Stene.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 69,000 residents
- Description: city in Ostend municipality, Belgium
- Also known as: “Oostende”
- Postal code: 8400
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oostende Railway Station and Mercator.
Oostende Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Japplemedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oostende railway station is a railway station in Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium. It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium.
Mercator
Museum
Photo: John Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mercator is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator, a Belgian cartographer.
Mu.ZEE
Museum
Photo: Wasily, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mu.ZEE is a museum in Ostend, Belgium, specializing in Belgian art from 1830 onwards. It was created in 2008 by the fusion of the former Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst and the Museum voor Schone Kunsten Oostende, both located in Ostend.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bredene and Zandvoorde.
Bredene
Town
Photo: Zeemeeuw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bredene is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality only comprises the town of Bredene proper. On 1 January 2006, Bredene had a total population of 15,118. Bredene is situated 4 km northeast of Ostend.
Snaaskerke
Village
Photo: Treehill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Snaaskerke is a village, which is situated 4½ km south of Ostend.
Ostend
- Category: town
- Location: Ostend, Arrondissement of Ostend, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Walloon—“Ostend” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ostend”
- Breton: “Oostende”
- Bulgarian: “Остенде”
- Catalan: “Oostende”
- Cebuano: “Oostende (parokya sa Belhika)”
- Cebuano: “Ostend”
- Chechen: “Остенде”
- Chinese: “奥斯滕德”
- Czech: “Ostende”
- Danish: “Ostende”
- Dutch: “Oostende”
- Esperanto: “Ostendo”
- Finnish: “Oostende”
- French: “Oostende”
- French: “Ostende”
- German: “Oostende”
- German: “Ostende”
- Greek: “Οστένδη”
- Hebrew: “אוסטנדה”
- Irish: “Ostend”
- Italian: “Ostend”
- Italian: “Ostenda”
- Japanese: “オーステンデ”
- Korean: “오스텐더”
- Latin: “Ostenda”
- Latin: “Ostium”
- Lithuanian: “Ostendė”
- Low German: “Oostenn”
- Luxembourgish: “Oostende”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oostende”
- Norwegian: “Oostende”
- Persian: “اوستنده”
- Polish: “Ostenda”
- Portuguese: “Oostende”
- Portuguese: “Ostende”
- Russian: “Остенде”
- Serbian: “Остенде”
- Spanish: “Ostende”
- Swedish: “Oostende (kommun i Belgien)”
- Swedish: “Oostende”
- Tamil: “ஆஸ்டெண்ட்”
- Ukrainian: “Остенде”
- Vlaams: “Ostende”
- Walloon: “Ostinde”
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