Antwerp
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Borgerhout

Borgerhout is the smallest district of , . As of 2025, the district housed 47,188 inhabitants on 3.93 km². It was a separate municipality until 1983.
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  • Type: Borough with 46,100 residents
  • Description: district of the City of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Antwerpen (Borgerhout)” and “Borgerhouts”
  • Postal code: 2140

Places of Interest

Highlights include De Roma and Sint-Franciscus Xaveriuskerk.

Arts center
Photo: Bert76, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, originally Kinema Roma, is an Art Deco cultural centre and performance venue in Borgerhout, .

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zurenborg and ‘t Groen Kwartier.

Quarter
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is an area in south-east largely developed between 1894 and 1906 that features a high concentration of townhouses in Art Nouveau and other fin-de-siècle styles.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Antwerp's diamond district, also known as the Diamond Quarter, and dubbed the Square Mile, is an area within the city of , . It consists of several square blocks covering an area of about one square mile.

Borgerhout

Latitude
51.21285° or 51° 12′ 46″ north
Longitude
4.44624° or 4° 26′ 47″ east
Population
46,100
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE BOR
Open location code
9F366C7W+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 193872743
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­borough
Geo­Names ID
2801471
Wiki­data ID
Q834850
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Borgerhout” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برغرهت”
  • Armenian: “Բորխերհաութ”
  • Breton: “Borgerhout”
  • Bulgarian: “Боргерхоут”
  • Catalan: “Borgerhout”
  • Cebuano: “Borgerhout”
  • Chinese: “博赫尔豪特”
  • Chinese: “博赫爾豪特”
  • Czech: “Borgerhout”
  • Danish: “Borgerhout”
  • Dutch: “Borgerholt”
  • Dutch: “Borgerhout”
  • Dutch: “Borgerokko”
  • Esperanto: “Borgerhout”
  • French: “Borgerhout”
  • Galician: “Borgerhout”
  • German: “Borgerhout”
  • Hebrew: “בורחרהאוט”
  • Hungarian: “Borgerhout”
  • Irish: “Borgerhout”
  • Italian: “Borgerhout”
  • Persian: “برگرهوت”
  • Polish: “Borgerhout”
  • Romanian: “Borgerhout”
  • Russian: “Боргерхаут”
  • Slovak: “Borgerhout”
  • Spanish: “Borgerhout”
  • Swedish: “Borgerhout”
  • Turkish: “Borgerhout”
  • Ukrainian: “Боргерхаут”

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Localities in the Area

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