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Essen

Essen is a town and municipality in the province of Antwerp, notable for being bordered by the on three sides. As of September 2022, it has a population of 19,029 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 18,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Antwerp, Belgium
  • Also known as: “11016”, “Esschen”, and “Essen, Belgium”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Essen railway station and Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Geboortekerk.

Railway station
Photo: Koos Fernhout, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Essen is a railway station in the town of Essen, . The station opened on 26 June 1854 on the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway, known in Belgium as Line 12. Essen is a border station between the and .

Church
Photo: John Scholte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nispen and Qville.

Village
is a town in the province of . It is part of the municipality of , formerly the municipality of Roosendaal en .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Village
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is a village.

Essen

Latitude
51.4679° or 51° 28′ 5″ north
Longitude
4.4698° or 4° 28′ 11″ east
Population
18,300
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
9F36FF99+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288927952
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2798616
Wiki­data ID
Q724283
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Satellite Map

Discover Essen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Essen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Essen, België”
  • Afrikaans: “Essen”
  • Arabic: “إيسن، بلجيكا”
  • Arabic: “إيسن”
  • Basque: “Essen”
  • Belarusian: “Эсэн”
  • Breton: “Essen”
  • Bulgarian: “Есен”
  • Catalan: “Essen”
  • Cebuano: “Essen”
  • Chinese: “埃森”
  • Czech: “Essen”
  • Dutch: “Essen (Belgie)”
  • Dutch: “Essen”
  • Esperanto: “Essen”
  • French: “Essen”
  • German: “Essen”
  • Hungarian: “Essen”
  • Indonesian: “Essen, Belgia”
  • Irish: “Essen”
  • Italian: “Essen”
  • Japanese: “エッセン”
  • Korean: “에선”
  • Latvian: “Esene”
  • Lithuanian: “Esenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Essen”
  • Macedonian: “Есен”
  • Moksha: “Эссэн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Essen”
  • Norwegian: “Essen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Essen”
  • Persian: “اسان”
  • Polish: “Essen”
  • Portuguese: “Essen”
  • Romanian: “Essen”
  • Russian: “Эссен”
  • Silesian: “Essen (Belgijo)”
  • Silesian: “Essen”
  • Slovak: “Essen”
  • Spanish: “Essen”
  • Swedish: “Essen, Belgien”
  • Swedish: “Essen”
  • Turkish: “Essen, Belçika”
  • Turkish: “Essen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ессен”
  • Vietnamese: “Essen, Bỉ”
  • Volapük: “Essen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Essen, Belhika”
  • Zeeuws: “Essen (België)”
  • Zeeuws: “Essen”

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Highlights include Begraafplaats Essen Centrum and Strooiweide.

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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 “Essen”. Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.