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Merksem

Merksem is a district of the municipality and city of in the Flemish Region of . It has 47,525 inhabitants as of 2025. It was a separate municipality until 1983.
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  • Type: Borough with 41,000 residents
  • Description: district of the City of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Antwerpen (Merksem)”, “Mercksem”, “Mercxem”, “Merxem”, and “梅克桑”
  • Postal code: 2170

Places of Interest

Highlights include Districtshuis Merksem and Sint-Bartholomeuskerk.

Town hall
Photo: Ziyalistix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town hall.

Church
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is a church.

Railway station
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Antwerp-Luchtbal is a railway station in the north of the city of , Antwerp, . The station opened on 1 February 1932 on the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway, known in Belgium as Line 12; it is also located on Line 27A, a freight line to the port of Antwerp; and on HSL 4.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Den Dam and Luchtbal.

Quarter
is an area in northern .

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood in the municipality of . The neighborhood is located southwest of central Schoten, and lies near the border with the district of Merksem.

Merksem

Latitude
51.24389° or 51° 14′ 38″ north
Longitude
4.43972° or 4° 26′ 23″ east
Population
41,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE MRK
Open location code
9F366CVQ+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 253247990
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­borough
Geo­Names ID
2791301
Wiki­data ID
Q2543761
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vlaams—“Merksem” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مركسيم”
  • Armenian: “Մերքսեմ”
  • Breton: “Merksem”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерксем”
  • Catalan: “Merksem”
  • Cebuano: “Merksem”
  • Chinese: “梅克瑟姆”
  • Danish: “Merksem”
  • Dutch: “Merksem”
  • Esperanto: “Merksem”
  • French: “Merksem”
  • Galician: “Merksem”
  • German: “Merksem”
  • Hebrew: “מרקסם”
  • Hungarian: “Merksem”
  • Irish: “Merksem”
  • Italian: “Merksem”
  • Japanese: “メルクセム”
  • Persian: “مرک‌سام”
  • Polish: “Merksem”
  • Romanian: “Merksem”
  • Slovenian: “Merksem”
  • Spanish: “Merksem”
  • Swedish: “Merksem”
  • Uzbek: “Merksem”
  • Vlaams: “Merksem”
  • “Merksem”

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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 “Merksem”. Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.