Hoboken
Hoboken is a southern district of the arrondissement and city of Antwerp, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located at the Scheldt river. The name of the district has its origins in Middle Dutch.- Type: Town with 34,400 residents
- Description: district of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “Antwerp (Hoboken)”, “Hoboken-lez-Anvers”, and “Hoboken, Antwerp”
- Postal code: 2660
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olympisch Stadion and Heilig Hartkerk.
Olympisch Stadion
Stadium
The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, weightlifting and korfball events.
Sorghvliedt Castle
Castle
Sorghvliedt Castle is a building in Belgium with a history dating back to the 16th century. It was originally a farm building called Wickeleynde owned by the merchant Jean Plaquet and his wife Maria Leydeckers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort 8 and Wilrijk.
Wilrijk
Town
Wilrijk is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp. Wilrijk had been a separate municipality before January 1, 1983; the enlarged municipality of Antwerp was decentralized in 2000 and Wilrijk became one of the city's nine districts. Wilrijk is situated 2½ km southeast of Hoboken.
Burcht
Village
Burcht is a village within the municipality of Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium. Burcht is situated 3 km northwest of Hoboken.
Hoboken
- Categories: municipality section, district of Antwerp, village, and locality
- Location: Antwerp, Arrondissement of Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.1795° or 51° 10′ 46″ north
Longitude
4.36179° or 4° 21′ 42″ east
Population
34,400
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE HBN
Open location code
9F3659H6+QP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Hoboken” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوبوكين (أنتويرب)”
- Armenian: “Հոբոքեն”
- Bulgarian: “Хобокен”
- Catalan: “Hoboken”
- Cebuano: “Hoboken”
- Chinese: “霍博肯 (安特衛普)”
- Chinese: “霍博肯”
- Danish: “Hoboken”
- Dutch: “Hoboken”
- Esperanto: “Hoboken”
- French: “Hoboken”
- Galician: “Hoboken, Anveres”
- Galician: “Hoboken”
- German: “Hoboken”
- Greek: “Χόμποκεν”
- Hungarian: “Hoboken”
- Irish: “Hoboken”
- Italian: “Hoboken”
- Latin: “Alto fageti”
- Latin: “Hoboken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoboken”
- Norwegian: “Hoboken”
- Persian: “هبوکن، آنتورپ”
- Persian: “هبوکن”
- Polish: “Hoboken”
- Romanian: “Hoboken”
- Russian: “Хобокен”
- Spanish: “Hoboken”
- Swedish: “Hoboken, Antwerpen”
- Swedish: “Hoboken”
- Turkish: “Hoboken, Anvers”
- Ukrainian: “Гобокен”
- Uzbek: “Hoboken”
- “Hoboken”
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