Niel
Niel is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Niel proper. In 2021, Niel had a total population of 10,493. The total area is 5.27 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 10,500 residents
- Description: municipality in Antwerp, Belgium
- Also known as: “11030” and “Niel, Belgium”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Niel railway station and Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Smartenkapel.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Smartenkapel
Church
Photo: Torsade de Pointes, CC0.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Smartenkapel is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boom and Hemiksem.
Boom
Town
Photo: Vanranstwim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boom is a Belgian town, located in both the arrondissement and province of Antwerp. In 2021, Boom had a total population of 18,799. The total area is 7.37 km2. Boom is situated 3½ km southeast of Niel.
Hemiksem
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hemiksem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Hemiksem proper. In 2021, Hemiksem had a total population of 11,722. The total area is 5.44 km2. Hemiksem is situated 4 km north of Niel.
Schelle
Village
Photo: Annabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schelle is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Schelle proper. In 2021, Schelle had a total population of 8,559. The total area is 7.80 km2.
Niel
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.1099° or 51° 6′ 36″ northLongitude
4.3303° or 4° 19′ 49″ eastPopulation
10,500Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
9F36485J+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 262508108OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2790226Wikidata ID
Q912054
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Niel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيل”
- Armenian: “Նիել”
- Basque: “Niel”
- Breton: “Niel”
- Bulgarian: “Нийл”
- Catalan: “Niel”
- Cebuano: “Niel (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Niel”
- Chinese: “尼尔”
- Chinese: “尼爾”
- Dutch: “Niel (Antwerpen)”
- Dutch: “Niel”
- Esperanto: “Niel”
- Estonian: “Niel”
- French: “Niel”
- German: “Niel”
- Hungarian: “Niel”
- Irish: “Niel”
- Italian: “Niel”
- Japanese: “ニール”
- Luxembourgish: “Niel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Niel”
- Norwegian: “Niel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Niel”
- Persian: “نیل”
- Polish: “Niel (prowincja Antwerpia)”
- Polish: “Niel”
- Portuguese: “Niel”
- Romanian: “Niel”
- Russian: “Нил”
- Slovak: “Niel”
- Spanish: “Niel”
- Swedish: “Niel”
- Turkish: “Niel, Belçika”
- Turkish: “Niel”
- Volapük: “Niel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Niel”
- Zeeuws: “Niel”
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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 “Niel”. Photo: Funkyxian, CC BY-SA 3.0.