Lys
The Lys or Leie is a river in France and Belgium, and a left-bank tributary of the Scheldt. Its source is in Pas-de-Calais, France, and it flows into the river Scheldt, with the confluence in the city of Ghent, Belgium.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: River
- Description: river in France and Belgium, and a left tributary of the Scheldt
- Also known as: “De Leie”, “Golden River”, “Goudne Riviere”, “La Lys Rivière”, “Leie”, “Leye”, and “Lys River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sint-Eligiuskerk and Bedevaartoord O.L.V. Ten Dale.
Bedevaartoord O.L.V. Ten Dale
Church
Photo: Spotter2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bedevaartoord O.L.V. Ten Dale is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sint-Eloois-Vijve and Wakken.
Wakken
Village
Photo: Geert.Desmet.Dentergem, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wakken is a village and deelgemeente in Dentergem municipality, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The village is located near the confluence of the rivers Lys and Mandel.
Lys
- Category: body of water
- Location: Ghent, Arrondissement of Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.91315° or 50° 54′ 47″ northLongitude
3.41253° or 3° 24′ 45″ eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
9F25WC77+72OpenStreetMap ID
way 1147856315OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
2792947Wikidata ID
Q208493
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Satellite Map
Discover Lys from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Lys” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Leie”
- Arabic: “ليس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Leie”
- Basque: “Leie”
- Belarusian: “Лее”
- Belarusian: “Ліс”
- Breton: “Leie”
- Breton: “Lys”
- Bulgarian: “Лейе”
- Catalan: “Leie”
- Catalan: “Lys”
- Catalan: “Riu Leie”
- Catalan: “Riu Lys”
- Cebuano: “Lys”
- Chinese: “利斯河”
- Chinese: “莱厄河”
- Chuvash: “Лис”
- Czech: “Leie”
- Czech: “Lys”
- Danish: “Leie”
- Danish: “Lys”
- Dutch: “Golden River”
- Dutch: “Leie (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Leie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ليس”
- Esperanto: “Lejo”
- Esperanto: “Liso”
- Estonian: “Leie jõgi”
- Finnish: “Leie”
- Finnish: “Lys”
- French: “Leie”
- French: “Lys”
- German: “Leie”
- Greek: “Λέιε”
- Greek: “Λυς”
- Hebrew: “לייה”
- Hungarian: “Leie”
- Hungarian: “Lys”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Lys”
- Irish: “Leie”
- Italian: “Leie”
- Italian: “Lys”
- Japanese: “ライエ川”
- Japanese: “リス川”
- Japanese: “レイエ川”
- Korean: “레이어강”
- Ladin: “Leie”
- Latin: “Legia”
- Latvian: “Lisa”
- Lithuanian: “Lejė”
- Lithuanian: “Lisas”
- Luxembourgish: “Leie”
- Luxembourgish: “Lys”
- Macedonian: “Лаје”
- Macedonian: “Лис”
- Mazanderani: “لایه روخنه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leie”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lys”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Lys”
- Norwegian: “Leie”
- Persian: “لایه”
- Picard: “Lys”
- Polish: “Legia”
- Polish: “Leie”
- Polish: “Lys”
- Portuguese: “Rio leie”
- Portuguese: “Rio Lys”
- Romanian: “Lys”
- Russian: “Лейе”
- Russian: “Лис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lys”
- Slovak: “Leie”
- Slovak: “Lys”
- Slovenian: “Leie”
- Slovenian: “Lys”
- Spanish: “Leie”
- Spanish: “Lys”
- Spanish: “rio Leie”
- Spanish: “río Leie”
- Spanish: “rio Lys”
- Spanish: “río Lys”
- Spanish: “Río Lys”
- Swedish: “Leie”
- Swedish: “Lys”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำลิส”
- Ukrainian: “Лейє”
- Ukrainian: “Лис”
- Ukrainian: “Ліс”
- Venetian: “Fiume Leie”
- Vlaams: “Golden River”
- Vlaams: “Goudne Riviere”
- Vlaams: “Leie”
- Vlaams: “Lys”
- Walloon: “Lys”
- Western Frisian: “Leie (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Leie”
- Zeeuws: “Leie”
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