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East Flanders
Arrondissement of Aalst

Aalst

Aalst is in , . A medium-sized town by Belgian standards, with a population of around 77,000 people. Aalst is between the larger city of and the capital, .
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  • Type: Town with 85,000 residents
  • Description: city in East Flanders, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Aalst, Belgium”, “Alost”, “Oalst”, and “Oilsjt”
  • Postal code: 9300
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Schepenhuis and Aalst railway station.

Museum
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The of Aalst, , Belgium, is a former city hall, one of the oldest in the Low Countries. Dating originally from 1225, it was partially rebuilt twice as a result of fire damage, first after a 1380 war and again after a fireworks accident in 1879.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Aalst, , Belgium. The station opened on 9 June 1853 and is located on railway lines 50 and 82. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium.

Church
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St Martin's Church or the Church of St. Martin is a church located in Aalst, , Belgium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Erembodegem and Hofstade.

Village
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is a village in the Belgian province of and is a submunicipality of Aalst. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977.

Village
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is a village in the Belgian province of and is a submunicipality of Aalst. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977.

Village
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Nieuwerkerken is a village in the Belgian province of and is a submunicipality of Aalst. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977.

Aalst

Latitude
50.9383° or 50° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
4.0392° or 4° 2′ 21″ east
Population
85,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE AAB
Open location code
9F26W2QQ+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1668613880
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2803448
Wiki­data ID
Q13121
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Aalst” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aalst, Oos-Vlaandere”
  • Arabic: “ألست”
  • Arabic: “الست”
  • 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”
  • German: “Aalst”
  • German: “Alost”
  • Greek: “Alósti”
  • Greek: “Άαλστ”
  • Hebrew: “אוילסט”
  • 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”
  • Slovak: “Aalst”
  • Slovenian: “Aalst”
  • Spanish: “Aalst”
  • Spanish: “Alost”
  • Swahili: “Aalst”
  • Swedish: “Aalst”
  • Tatar: “Алст”
  • Turkish: “Aalst”
  • Turkish: “Alost”
  • Turkish: “Alostum”
  • Turkish: “Oilsjt”
  • Ukrainian: “Алст (Бельгія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Алст”
  • Urdu: “آلسٹ، بلجئیم”
  • Uzbek: “Aalst (Belgiya)”
  • Uzbek: “Aalst, Belgiya”
  • Uzbek: “Aalst”
  • 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”
  • “Aalst”
  • “ma tomo Aloseta”

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