Aalst
Aalst is in East Flanders, Belgium. A medium-sized town by Belgian standards, with a population of around 77,000 people. Aalst is between the larger city of Ghent and the capital, Brussels.
- City with about 88,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (50 feet)
- Description: city in East Flanders, Belgium
- Postal code: 9300
- Also known as“Aalst, Belgium”“Alost”“Oalst”“Oilsjt”
- Neighbors: Dendermonde
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schepenhuis and Aalst railway station.
Aalst railway station
Aalst railway station is a railway station in Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Erembodegem and Hofstade.
Erembodegem
Erembodegem is a village in the Belgian province of East Flanders and is a submunicipality of Aalst.
Hofstade
Hofstade is a village in the Belgian province of East Flanders and is a submunicipality of Aalst.
Aalst
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Latitude
50.9383° or 50° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
4.0392° or 4° 2′ 21″ east
UN/LOCODE
BE AAB
Open location code
9F26W2QQ+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Aalst” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aalst, Oos-Vlaandere”
- Arabic: “ألست”
- Armenian: “Աալստ”
- Azerbaijani: “Alst”
- Basque: “Aalst (Belgika)”
- Basque: “Aalst”
- Belarusian: “Аальст”
- Belarusian: “Алст”
- Breton: “Aalst”
- Bulgarian: “Алст”
- Catalan: “Aalst”
- Cebuano: “Aalst”
- Chinese: “奥斯特”
- Chinese: “阿尔斯特 (东佛兰德省)”
- Chinese: “阿尔斯特”
- Czech: “Aalst”
- Danish: “Aalst”
- Dutch: “Aalst (Oost-Vlaanderen)”
- Dutch: “Aalst”
- Dutch: “Oilsjt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الست”
- Esperanto: “Aalst”
- Estonian: “Aalst”
- Finnish: “Aalst”
- French: “Alost”
- French: “Oalst”
- Galician: “Aalst”
- Georgian: “აალსტი”
- German: “Aalst”
- German: “Alost”
- Greek: “Alósti”
- Greek: “Άαλστ”
- Hebrew: “אוילסט”
- Hindi: “आल्स्ट”
- Hungarian: “Aalst (Kelet-Flandria)”
- Hungarian: “Aalst”
- Icelandic: “Aalst”
- Indonesian: “Aalst, Belgia”
- Interlingue: “Aalst”
- Irish: “Aalst”
- Italian: “Aalst”
- Japanese: “アールスト”
- Javanese: “Aalst”
- Korean: “알스트”
- Latin: “Alostum”
- Latin: “Halosta”
- Latvian: “Ālsta”
- Limburgan: “Aals”
- Lithuanian: “Alstas”
- Luxembourgish: “Alost”
- Macedonian: “Alst”
- Mandarin Chinese: “Àosītè”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aalst”
- Norwegian: “Aalst”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aalst”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Aalst”
- Persian: “الست (بلژیک)”
- Persian: “الست”
- Picard: “Alost”
- Polish: “Aalst”
- Portuguese: “Aalst (Bélgica)”
- Portuguese: “Aalst”
- Romanian: “Aalst”
- Russian: “Аальст”
- Russian: “Ало”
- Russian: “Алост”
- Russian: “Алст”
- Scots: “Aalst, Belgium”
- Scots: “Alost”
- Scots: “Oalst”
- Scots: “Oilsjt”
- Serbian: “Alst”
- Serbian: “Алст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aalst”
- Silesian: “Aalst”
- Slovak: “Aalst”
- Slovenian: “Aalst”
- Spanish: “Aalst”
- Spanish: “Alost”
- Swahili: “Aalst”
- Swedish: “Aalst”
- Tatar: “Алст”
- Thai: “อาลสต์”
- Turkish: “Aalst”
- Turkish: “Alost”
- Turkish: “Alostum”
- Turkish: “Oilsjt”
- Ukrainian: “Алст (Бельгія)”
- Ukrainian: “Алст”
- Urdu: “آلست، بلجئیم”
- Urdu: “آلسٹ، بلجئیم”
- Uzbek: “Aalst (Belgiya)”
- Vietnamese: “Aalst”
- Vlaams: “Oalst (Ôost-Vloandern)”
- Vlaams: “Oalst”
- Volapük: “Aalst (Lofüda⸗Flanän)”
- Volapük: “Aalst”
- Walloon: “Åch”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aalst, Belhika”
- Wu Chinese: “阿尔斯特”
- Zeeuws: “Aelst (België)”
- Zeeuws: “Aelst”
- “ma tomo Aloseta”
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