Chastre
Chastre is a French-speaking municipality in Belgium that is located in Wallonia, in the province of Walloon Brabant. Its name comes from the Gallo-Roman word castra "fortress, fortified camp", from the Latin castra which is the plural form of castrum meaning "entrenchment, fortified place".- Type: Village with 7,130 residents
- Description: municipality in Wallonia, Belgium
- Postal code: 1450
- Neighbors: Gembloux and Villers-la-Ville
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tumuli of Noirmont and Chastre railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ernage and Mont-Saint-Guibert.
Mont-Saint-Guibert
Village
Mont-Saint-Guibert is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2012, Mont-Saint-Guibert had a total population of 7000. Mont-Saint-Guibert is situated 3½ km northwest of Chastre.
Chastre
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Chastre, Arrondissement of Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.60827° or 50° 36′ 30″ north
Longitude
4.63856° or 4° 38′ 19″ east
Population
7,130
Elevation
135 metres (443 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE CAR
Open location code
9F26JJ5Q+8C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Chastre” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chastre”
- Bavarian: “Chastre”
- Breton: “Chastre”
- Bulgarian: “Шастър”
- Catalan: “Chastre”
- Cebuano: “Chastre”
- Chinese: “沙斯特尔”
- Dutch: “Chastre”
- Esperanto: “Chastre”
- Finnish: “Chastre”
- French: “Chastre”
- German: “Chastre”
- Hungarian: “Chastre”
- Irish: “Chastre”
- Italian: “Chastre”
- Latin: “Castra”
- Luxembourgish: “Chastre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chastre”
- Norwegian: “Chastre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chastre”
- Persian: “شستر”
- Polish: “Chastre”
- Portuguese: “Chastre”
- Romanian: “Chastre”
- Russian: “Шастр”
- Slovak: “Chastre”
- Spanish: “Chastre”
- Swedish: “Chastre”
- Turkish: “Chastre”
- Ukrainian: “Шастр”
- Urdu: “شاسترے”
- Vietnamese: “Chastre”
- Volapük: “Chastre”
- Walloon: “Tchåsse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chastre”
- Zeeuws: “Chastre”
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