Wallonia
Hainaut
Arrondissement de Mouscron

Mouscron

Mouscron is a municipality and city of located in the , along the border with the French city of , which is part of the metropolitan area.
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  • Type: Town with 56,600 residents
  • Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Moeskroen” and “Mouscron - Moeskroen”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Le Canonnier and Mouscron railway station.

Stadium
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Le Canonnier is a multi-use in Mouscron, Belgium. It is currently used mostly for football matches and was the home ground of Royal Excel Mouscron until the club was folded in 2022. The stadium holds 10,800 people.

Railway station
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.

Castle
Photo: Jamain, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tourcoing and Wattrelos.

Town
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in northern on the border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of . Located to the north-northeast of , adjacent to , is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants. is situated 4½ km southwest of Mouscron.

Town
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is a commune in the Nord department in the region of northern . It is located on the border with , northeast of the city of . is situated 4½ km south of Mouscron.

Town
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is a city in northern France, located in the metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from its textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American boom towns. is situated 6 km southwest of Mouscron.

Mouscron

Latitude
50.7437° or 50° 44′ 37″ north
Longitude
3.2143° or 3° 12′ 51″ east
Population
56,600
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
9F25P6V7+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 539515887
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2795937
Wiki­data ID
Q220145
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Mouscron” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Mouscron”
  • Belarusian: “Мускрон”
  • Breton: “Moeskroen”
  • Breton: “Mouscron”
  • Bulgarian: “Мускрон”
  • Catalan: “Mouscron”
  • Catalan: “Mouskron”
  • Cebuano: “Mouscron (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Mouscron”
  • Chinese: “穆斯克龍”
  • Chinese: “穆斯克龙”
  • Czech: “Mouscron”
  • Danish: “Moeskroen”
  • Danish: “Mouscron”
  • Dutch: “Moeskroen”
  • Dutch: “Mouscron”
  • Esperanto: “Mouscron”
  • Esperanto: “Muskrono”
  • Estonian: “Mouscron”
  • Finnish: “Mouscron”
  • French: “Moeskroen”
  • French: “Mouscron”
  • Galician: “Mouscron”
  • German: “Moeskroen”
  • German: “Mouscron”
  • Greek: “Μουσκρόν”
  • Hebrew: “מוסקרון”
  • Hungarian: “Mouscron”
  • Irish: “Mouscron”
  • Italian: “Moeskroen”
  • Italian: “Moscerone”
  • Italian: “Mouscron”
  • Japanese: “ムスクルン”
  • Japanese: “ムスクロン”
  • Korean: “무스크롱”
  • Latin: “Moscrum”
  • Latin: “Musera”
  • Latvian: “Muskrona”
  • Limburgan: “Moeskroen”
  • Lithuanian: “Mukronas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mouscron”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mouscron”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mouscron”
  • Norwegian: “Mouscron”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mouscron”
  • Persian: “موزکرون”
  • Persian: “موکرون”
  • Picard: “Moucron”
  • Polish: “Mouscron”
  • Portuguese: “Mouscron”
  • Romanian: “Mouscron”
  • Russian: “Мускрон”
  • Serbian: “Mouscron”
  • Serbian: “Muskron”
  • Serbian: “Мускрон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mouscron”
  • Slovak: “Mouscron”
  • Slovenian: “Mouscron”
  • Spanish: “Mouscron”
  • Swahili: “Moeskroen”
  • Swahili: “Mouscron”
  • Swedish: “Moeskroen”
  • Swedish: “Mouscron (kommun i Belgien)”
  • Swedish: “Mouscron”
  • Tatar: “Мукроң”
  • Turkish: “Moeskroen”
  • Turkish: “Mouscron”
  • Ukrainian: “Мускрон”
  • Vietnamese: “Mouscron”
  • Vlaams: “Moeschroen”
  • Vlaams: “Moeschroên”
  • Vlaams: “Moeskroen”
  • Vlaams: “Mouscron”
  • Vlaams: “Muskroen”
  • Volapük: “Moeskroen”
  • Volapük: “Mouscron”
  • Walloon: “Moucron”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mouscron”
  • Welsh: “Mouscron”
  • Western Frisian: “Moeskroen”
  • Western Frisian: “Mouscron”
  • Zeeuws: “Moeskroen”

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