Brakel
Brakel is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders in the Denderstreek and the Flemish Ardennes. The name is derived from a Carolingian villa Braglo first mentioned in 866 and located in the center of Opbrakel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 14,800 residents
- Description: municipality in East Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “45059” and “Brakel, Belgium”
- Neighbors: Geraardsbergen and Zottegem
Places of Interest
Highlights include Valkenberg and Tenbosse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nederbrakel and Opbrakel.
Nederbrakel
Village
Photo: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nederbrakel is a town in the municipality of Brakel. It is located in the Denderstreek and the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.
Opbrakel
Village
Photo: Spotter2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Opbrakel is a village and deelgemeente of the municipality of Brakel. It is located in the Denderstreek in the province of East Flanders in Belgium. It used to be an independent municipality until 1971 when it was merged into Brakel.
Michelbeke
Village
Photo: FrDr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Michelbeke is a village in the municipality of Brakel, Belgium. It is located in the Denderstreek and in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.
Brakel
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.798° or 50° 47′ 53″ northLongitude
3.7628° or 3° 45′ 46″ eastPopulation
14,800Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)Open location code
9F25QQX7+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 3653208452OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
2790422Wikidata ID
Q845980
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Brakel” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brakel”
- Breton: “Brakel”
- Bulgarian: “Бракел”
- Catalan: “Brakel”
- Cebuano: “Brakel (parokya sa Belhika)”
- Cebuano: “Brakel”
- Chinese: “布拉克尔”
- Chinese: “布拉克爾”
- Danish: “Brakel”
- Dutch: “Brakel (Belgie)”
- Dutch: “Brakel”
- Esperanto: “Brakel”
- Estonian: “Brakel”
- Faroese: “Brakel”
- French: “Bracle”
- French: “Braine”
- French: “Brakel”
- German: “Brakel”
- Hebrew: “בראקל”
- Hungarian: “Brakel”
- Irish: “Brakel”
- Italian: “Brakel”
- Kalaallisut: “Brakel”
- Korean: “브라끌”
- Luxembourgish: “Brakel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brakel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brakel”
- Norwegian: “Brakel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brakel”
- Persian: “برکل”
- Polish: “Brakel”
- Portuguese: “Brakel (Bélgica)”
- Portuguese: “Brakel”
- Romanian: “Brakel”
- Russian: “Бракел”
- Russian: “Бракель”
- Slovak: “Brakel”
- Spanish: “Brakel”
- Swedish: “Brakel”
- Turkish: “Brakel”
- Ukrainian: “Бракель”
- Uzbek: “Brakel, Belgiya”
- Uzbek: “Brakel”
- Vietnamese: “Brakel”
- Vlaams: “Broakel”
- Volapük: “Brakel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brakel”
- Zeeuws: “Braokel”
- “Brakel”
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