Couvin

Couvin is a municipality and city of located in the , . On 1 January 2018 the municipality had 13,782 inhabitants. Couvin is the second largest municipality of Belgium by surface area, after .
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  • Type: Town with 13,000 residents
  • Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Also known as: “93014”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Neptune Caves and Couvin railway station.

Cave
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The , also known as the Grottes de l'Adugeoir are a series of natural caves located in near Petigny in the municipality of Couvin, .

Railway station
Photo: Smith.conrad, CC0.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boussu-en-Fagne and Petigny.

Village
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is a village of and a district of the municipality of Couvin, located in the , . Archaeological excavations in the area have revealed a Neolithic settlement as well as a large , and a subsidiary Roman road.

Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
is a village.

Village
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is a town in the municipality of Couvin in the , , . The town is named after Mary of Hungary, governor of what was then the Habsburg Netherlands, who ordered the construction of a fortress town there in 1542. is situated 5 km north of Couvin.

Couvin

Latitude
50.0524° or 50° 3′ 9″ north
Longitude
4.4969° or 4° 29′ 49″ east
Population
13,000
Elevation
185 metres (607 feet)
Open location code
9F263F2W+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60561637
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2800026
Wiki­data ID
Q326771
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Couvin” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Couvin”
  • Breton: “Couvin”
  • Bulgarian: “Кувен”
  • Catalan: “Couvin”
  • Cebuano: “Couvin (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Couvin”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوڤە”
  • Chinese: “库万”
  • Chinese: “庫萬”
  • Danish: “Couvin”
  • Dutch: “Couvin”
  • Esperanto: “Couvin”
  • Estonian: “Couvin”
  • French: “Couvin”
  • Galician: “Couvin”
  • German: “Couvin”
  • Hebrew: “קובן”
  • Hungarian: “Couvin”
  • Irish: “Couvin”
  • Italian: “Couvin”
  • Japanese: “クーヴァン”
  • Korean: “쿠뱅”
  • Limburgan: “Couvin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Couvin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Couvin”
  • Norwegian: “Couvin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Couvin”
  • Persian: “کوون (بلژیک)”
  • Persian: “کوون”
  • Picard: “Couvéne”
  • Polish: “Couvin”
  • Portuguese: “Couvin”
  • Romanian: “Couvin”
  • Russian: “Кувен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Couvin”
  • Slovak: “Couvin”
  • Spanish: “Couvin”
  • Swedish: “Couvin”
  • Turkish: “Couvin”
  • Urdu: “کووین”
  • Vietnamese: “Couvin”
  • Volapük: “Couvin”
  • Walloon: “Couvén”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Couvin”
  • Zeeuws: “Couvin”

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