Yser
The Yser is a river that rises in French Flanders, enters the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows through the Ganzepoot and into the North Sea at the town of Nieuwpoort.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in northern France and Belgium
- Also known as: “De IJzer”, “IJzer”, and “L’Yser”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nieuwpoort Lighthouse and Sint-Bernarduskerk.
King Albert I Monument
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The King Albert I Memorial, also named the King Albert I Monument, is a memorial at the Belgian coastal city of Nieuwpoort. It is located right outside the old town, on the right bank of the Yser river at the lock complex Ganzepoot. King Albert I Monument is situated 3 km southeast of Yser.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nieuwpoort-Bad and Lombardsijde.
Lombardsijde
Suburb
Lombardsijde, also Lombartzyde, is a district in the Belgian municipality of Middelkerke in West Flanders province, in northwestern Belgium near Nieuwpoort. Fighting occurred in and around Lombardsijde during World War I.
Westende
Suburb
Westende is a town in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West Flanders. It lies on the Belgian coast, also called the Flemish coast. It used to be the far west of the island Testerep which lay along the Belgian coast. Westende is situated 3½ km east of Yser.
Yser
- Categories: river, coastal river, and body of water
- Location: Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Yser” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Yser”
- Basque: “Yser”
- Belarusian: “Ізер”
- Belarusian: “Ізэр”
- Breton: “Ijzer”
- Breton: “IJzer”
- Bulgarian: “Йсер”
- Catalan: “IJzer”
- Catalan: “Riu IJzer”
- Catalan: “Yser”
- Cebuano: “Yser”
- Chinese: “艾泽尔河”
- Chinese: “艾澤爾河”
- Czech: “IJzer”
- Czech: “Yser”
- Danish: “Yser”
- Dutch: “IJzer”
- Dutch: “IJzer”
- Dutch: “Yser”
- Esperanto: “Ijzer”
- Esperanto: “Izero”
- Estonian: “IJzer”
- Estonian: “IJzeri jõgi”
- Estonian: “Yser”
- Estonian: “Yseri jõgi”
- Finnish: “Yser”
- French: “IJzer”
- French: “Yser”
- Georgian: “იზერი”
- German: “IJzer”
- German: “Yser”
- Greek: “Έιζερ”
- Greek: “Υζέρ”
- Hungarian: “Yser”
- Indonesian: “Yser”
- Irish: “Yser”
- Italian: “Yser”
- Japanese: “イーゼル川”
- Japanese: “イセル川”
- Korean: “이제르강”
- Ladin: “Yser”
- Latin: “Isara”
- Latin: “Isera”
- Latin: “Ysara”
- Latin: “Ysera”
- Latvian: “Eizera”
- Limburgan: “IJzer”
- Lithuanian: “Izeras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yser”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yser”
- Norwegian: “Yser”
- Persian: “رود ایزر”
- Picard: “Yser”
- Polish: “IJzer”
- Polish: “Yser”
- Portuguese: “Rio Yser”
- Russian: “Изер”
- Serbian: “Изер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yser”
- Slovak: “Yser”
- Slovenian: “IJzer”
- Slovenian: “Yser”
- Spanish: “Rio Yser”
- Spanish: “río Yser”
- Spanish: “Río Yser”
- Spanish: “Yser”
- Swahili: “Mto Yser”
- Swedish: “Yser”
- Ukrainian: “Ізер”
- Venetian: “Fiume Yser”
- Vlaams: “Yzer”
- Walloon: “Izer”
- Western Frisian: “Izer”
- Western Frisian: “Yser”
- Yue Chinese: “艾澤爾河”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Groenendijk Strand and Nieuwpoort–Dunkirk Canal.
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