Heist-aan-Zee

Heist-aan-Zee, Heist or Heyst, is a town in , , . It was a prominent summer beach resort in the 1890s. It had a beachfront lined with hotels and a "dike" paved walkway on a storm fender.
  • Suburb with about 13,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • Description: section of Knokke-Heist, Belgium
  • Postal code: 8301
  • Also known as
    “Eist”
    “Heist”
    “Heist-sur-Mer”
    “Heyst”

Places of Interest

Discover Heist railway station and Sint-Antonius Abtkerk.
Railway station
Heist is a railway station in the town of , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Duinbergen and Zeebrugge.
Neighborhood
is a neighborhood.
Village
is a village on the coast of and…
Suburb
is a town in the municipality of …
3½ km east of Heist-aan-Zee
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Latitude
51.33744° or 51° 20′ 15″ north
Longitude
3.23998° or 3° 14′ 24″ east
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BE HEI
Open location code
9F3586PQ+XX
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Vlaams—“Heist-aan-Zee” goes by many names.
Heist-aan-ZeeBreton
HeistCatalan
HeistCebuano
海斯特Chinese
HeistDutch
Heist (West-Vlaanderen)Dutch
Heyst-sur-MerDutch
Heist-aan-ZeeHungarian
Heist-aan-ZeeIrish
Heist-aan-ZeeItalian
HeistNorwegian Bokmål
Heist-aan-ZeeNorwegian Bokmål
HeistPolish
Heist (Knokke-Heist)Polish
Хейст-ан-ЗеRussian
HeistSwedish
Heist-aan-ZeeSwedish
EistVlaams

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