Ében-Émael
Ében-Émael is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Bassenge, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The village is located on the French-speaking side of the language border, next to Kanne on the Flemish side and not far from the border with the Netherlands near Maastricht.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,660 residents
- Description: section of Bassenge, Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “Bassenge (Eben-Emael)”, “Eben-Emaal”, and “Eben-Emael”
- Postal code: 4690
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Ében-Émael and Tumulus of Émael.
Fort Ében-Émael
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Eben-Emael is an inactive Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, near the Albert Canal, outside the village of Ében-Émael.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Saint Peter and Kanne.
Mount Saint Peter
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Saint Peter, also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meuse to the east.
Kanne
Village
Photo: Dhenrotte, Public domain.
Kanne is a village in the municipality of Riemst in the southeastern part of the Belgian province of Limburg. As of 2021, the village has 1,162 inhabitants, a significant number of whom have Dutch nationality.
Ében-Émael
- Categories: municipality section and locality
- Location: Bassenge, Liège, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.79316° or 50° 47′ 35″ northLongitude
5.66659° or 5° 39′ 60″ eastPopulation
1,660Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE 9IROpen location code
9F27QMV8+7JOpenStreetMap ID
node 30119740OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Ében-Émael” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إبين إميل”
- Chinese: “埃本-埃马尔”
- Dutch: “Eben-Emael”
- French: “Eben-Emael”
- French: “Ében-Émael”
- Hungarian: “Ében-Émael”
- Irish: “Ében-Émael”
- Limburgan: “Aemaol”
- Luxembourgish: “Eben-Emael”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ében-Émael”
- Polish: “Eben-Emael”
- Russian: “Эбен-Эмаль”
- Ukrainian: “Ебен-Емаель”
- “Ében-Émael”
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