Heestert
Heestert is a village in the south of the Belgian province of West Flanders and since 1976 has been part of the Zwevegem municipality. It has an area of 13 km2 and population of 2,880.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,860 residents
- Description: section of Zwevegem, Belgium
- Postal code: 8551
Places of Interest
Highlights include Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaartkerk and Heestert Military Cemetery.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaartkerk
Church
Photo: PMRMaeyaert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaartkerk is a church.
Heestert Military Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Wernervc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Heestert Military Cemetery is a British military cemetery with casualties from the First World War, located in the Belgian village of Heestert in the Zwevegem municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moen and Outrijve.
Avelgem
Avelgem is a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality has more than 10,000 inhabitants. Avelgem is in the extreme southeast of the province, southeast of Kortrijk, along the Scheldt, against the border with the provinces of East Flanders and Hainaut.
Heestert
- Categories: municipality section and locality
- Location: Zwevegem, Arrondissement of Kortrijk, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.78181° or 50° 46′ 55″ northLongitude
3.41158° or 3° 24′ 42″ eastPopulation
2,860Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE HTSOpen location code
9F25QCJ6+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 720925668OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vlaams—“Heestert” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Heestert”
- Dutch: “Heestert”
- French: “Heestert”
- Hungarian: “Heestert”
- Irish: “Heestert”
- Polish: “Heestert”
- Russian: “Хестерт”
- Vlaams: “Êestert”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Heestert”. Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.