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Arrondissement of Nivelles

The Arrondissement of Nivelles is an arrondissement in and . It is the only arrondissement in the province of , and is coterminous with it.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ottignies railway station and Musée Hergé.

Railway station
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is a railway station in , , Belgium. The station was opened in 1855 by the Grande Compagnie de Luxembourg, and from 1884, had a station building designed by the architect Charles Licot.

Museum
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The , or Hergé Museum, is a in , Belgium, dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé, creator of the series of comic albums, The Adventures of Tintin.

Castle
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is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Louvain-la-Neuve and Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve.

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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 city and municipality of located in the . On January 1, 2006, had a total population of 29,521.

Town
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is a municipality of located in the province of . On 1 January 2006 had a total population of 9,408.

Arrondissement of Nivelles

Latitude
50.6663° or 50° 39′ 59″ north
Longitude
4.5661° or 4° 33′ 58″ east
Population
399,000
Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)
Open location code
9F26MH88+GF
Geo­Names ID
2790100
Wiki­data ID
Q93707
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Walloon—“Arrondissement of Nivelles” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Նիվել”
  • Belarusian: “акруга Нівель”
  • Belarusian: “Нівель (акруга)”
  • Belarusian: “Нівель”
  • Breton: “Arondisamant Nivelles”
  • Bulgarian: “Нивел”
  • Catalan: “districte de Nivelles”
  • Cebuano: “Arrondissement de Nivelles”
  • Chinese: “尼韋爾區”
  • Chinese: “尼韦勒区”
  • Czech: “Arrondissement Nivelles”
  • Dutch: “Arrondissement Nijvel”
  • Dutch: “Nijvel”
  • Estonian: “Nivelles’i ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Nivellesi ringkond”
  • French: “arrondissement administratif de Nivelles”
  • French: “Arrondissement administratif de Nivelles”
  • French: “Arrondissement de Nivelles”
  • French: “Nivelles”
  • Galician: “distrito de Nivelles”
  • German: “Arrondissement Nivelles”
  • German: “Bezirk Nivelles”
  • German: “Nivelles”
  • Hungarian: “Nivelles”
  • Irish: “Arrondissement Nivelles”
  • Italian: “Arrondissement di Nivelles”
  • Latin: “Circumdarium administrativum Nivellense”
  • Limburgan: “Nijvel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arrondissement Nivelles”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نیول”
  • Polish: “Nivelles (okręg)”
  • Polish: “Nivelles”
  • Russian: “Нивель”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nivelles (arondisman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nivelles”
  • Slovenian: “Arrondissement de Nivelles”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Nivelles”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Nivelles”
  • Swedish: “Arrondissement de Nivelles”
  • Turkish: “Arrondissement Nivelles”
  • Ukrainian: “Нівель”
  • Ukrainian: “округа Нівель”
  • Vietnamese: “Nivelle”
  • Vietnamese: “Nivelles”
  • Vlaams: “Arroundissement Nyvel”
  • Walloon: “Arondixhmint d’ Nivele”
  • Walloon: “Arondixhmint di Nivele”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Ottignies and Mousty.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bois de l’Étoile and Bois de Lauzelle.

Walloon Brabant: Must-Visit Destinations

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Arrondissement of Nivelles”. Photo: Ligne11, CC BY-SA 3.0.