Flemish Brabant
Arrondissement Halle-Vilvoorde
Machelen

Machelen

Machelen is a municipality in the province of , in the Flemish region of . The municipality comprises the towns of and Machelen proper.
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  • Type: Town with 12,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium
  • Postal code: 1830
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sint-Gertrudiskerk (Machelen) and Vilvoorde railway station.

Church
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is a church.

Railway station
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is a railway station in , , Belgium. The station opened on 5 May 1835 on the country's first railway, from to ; later to become railway lines 25 and 27.

Railway station
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Buda and Vilvoorde.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

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is a city of 44,000 inhabitants in the province of in . Lying just north of , the town functions more as a suburb of the national capital, having some regional importance due to its high schools and hospitals.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Machelen

Latitude
50.91267° or 50° 54′ 46″ north
Longitude
4.4329° or 4° 25′ 58″ east
Population
12,300
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Operator
Toerisme Vlaams-Brabant
United Nations Location Code
BE MAC
Open location code
9F26WC7M+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 308897364
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2791951
Wiki­data ID
Q752115
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Machelen” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Machelen”
  • Bavarian: “Machelen”
  • Breton: “Machelen (Brabant Flandrez)”
  • Breton: “Machelen”
  • Bulgarian: “Махелен”
  • Catalan: “Machelen”
  • Cebuano: “Machelen (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Machelen”
  • Chinese: “馬赫倫”
  • Chinese: “马赫伦”
  • Dutch: “Machelen (Vlaams-Brabant)”
  • Dutch: “Machelen-Diegem”
  • Dutch: “Machelen”
  • Esperanto: “Machelen”
  • French: “Machelen”
  • German: “Machelen”
  • Hungarian: “Machelen (Brabant flamand)”
  • Hungarian: “Machelen (Vlaams-Brabant)”
  • Hungarian: “Machelen-lez-Vilvorde”
  • Hungarian: “Machelen-Sainte-Gertrude”
  • Hungarian: “Machelen”
  • Irish: “Machelen”
  • Italian: “Machelen”
  • Lithuanian: “Mačelenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Machelen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Machelen”
  • Norwegian: “Machelen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Machelen (Brabant flamenc)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Machelen”
  • Persian: “مشولان”
  • Polish: “Machelen”
  • Portuguese: “Machelen”
  • Romanian: “Machelen”
  • Russian: “Махелен”
  • Silesian: “Machelen (Flamandzko Brabancyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Machelen”
  • Slovak: “Machelen”
  • Slovenian: “Machelen”
  • Spanish: “Machelen”
  • Swedish: “Machelen”
  • Turkish: “Machelen”
  • Ukrainian: “Махелен”
  • Vietnamese: “Machelen”
  • Vlaams: “Machelen”
  • Volapük: “Machelen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Machelen”
  • Zeeuws: “Machelen”
  • “Machelen”

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Notable Places Nearby

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