Lens
Lens is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. In 2007 its population was 4042. The total area is 49.42 km² which gives a population density of 80 inhabitants per km².| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “Lens, Belgium”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lens railway station and Pairi Daiza.
Lens railway station
Railway stop
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Lens railway station is a railway stop.
Pairi Daiza
Zoo
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Pairi Daiza is a privately owned zoo and botanical garden located in Brugelette, Hainaut, Belgium. The 75-hectare large animal theme park is located on the site of the former Cistercian Cambron Abbey, and is home to over 7,000 animals. Pairi Daiza is situated 3 km north of Lens.
Jurbise railway station
Railway station
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Jurbise railway station is situated 3 km south of Lens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cambron-Casteau and Mévergnies-lez-Lens.
Cambron-Casteau
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Cambron-Casteau is a French-speaking village located in the Hainaut province of Belgium, mid-way between Brussels and Lille. Its most notable attraction, drawing over 1.7 million visitors per year, is animal park Pairi Daiza.
Mévergnies-lez-Lens
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mévergnies-lez-Lens is a village, which is situated 6 km northwest of Lens.
Thoricourt
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Thoricourt is a village, which is situated 7 km northeast of Lens.
Lens
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Lens, Arrondissement of Mons, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.55708° or 50° 33′ 26″ northLongitude
3.90055° or 3° 54′ 2″ eastPopulation
4,000Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE LNSOpen location code
9F25HW42+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 173100679OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Lens” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lens”
- Breton: “Lens”
- Bulgarian: “Ланс”
- Catalan: “Lens”
- Cebuano: “Lens”
- Chinese: “朗斯_(埃诺省)”
- Chinese: “朗斯”
- Dutch: “Lens (Belgie)”
- Dutch: “Lens”
- Esperanto: “Lens”
- French: “Lens”
- Friulian: “Lens (Belgjo)”
- Friulian: “Lens”
- German: “Lens”
- Hungarian: “Lens”
- Irish: “Lens”
- Italian: “Lens”
- Japanese: “レンス”
- Latin: “Lendium”
- Limburgan: “Lens”
- Luxembourgish: “Lens”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lens”
- Norwegian: “Lens”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lens”
- Persian: “لان”
- Persian: “لانس”
- Picard: “Linse (Bergike)”
- Picard: “Linse”
- Polish: “Lens”
- Portuguese: “Lens”
- Romanian: “Lens”
- Russian: “Ланс”
- Slovak: “Lens”
- Spanish: “Lens”
- Swedish: “Lens, Belgien”
- Turkish: “Lens, Mons”
- Turkish: “Lens”
- Vietnamese: “Lens, Hainaut”
- Vietnamese: “Lens”
- Volapük: “Lens”
- Walloon: “Linse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lens, Belhika”
- Zeeuws: “Lens (België)”
- Zeeuws: “Lens”
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Notable Places Nearby
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