Antwerp

Antwerp is the capital of the in the region of in . At a population of just over half a million people, it is the second largest city in Belgium, and it has a major European port.
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  • Type: City with 507,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Antwerpen”, “Anvers”, and “City of Antwerp”
  • Postal codes: 2000, 2018, 2020, 2030, 2040, 2050, 2060, and 2600
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Rubenshuis and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Museum
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The is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself.

Museum
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The is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Church
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The is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, . Today's seat of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been fully completed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Borgerhout and Merksem.

Town
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is the smallest district of Antwerp, . As of 2025, the district housed 47,188 inhabitants on 3.93 km². It was a separate municipality until 1983.

Town
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is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of . It has 47,525 inhabitants as of 2025. It was a separate municipality until 1983.

Town
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is a southern district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of . is located along the old Grote Steenweg that has connected to Antwerp for several centuries; the town borders the districts of , , and Antwerp and the municipality of .

Antwerp

Latitude
51.2211° or 51° 13′ 16″ north
Longitude
4.3997° or 4° 23′ 59″ east
Population
507,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
ANR
United Nations Location Code
BE ANR
Open location code
9F3669CX+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1765433658
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2803138
Wiki­data ID
Q12892
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Antwerp” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Antwerpen”
  • Albanian: “Antwerp”
  • Amharic: “አንትወርፕ”
  • Arabic: “أنتويرب”
  • Aragonese: “Anvers”
  • Armenian: “Անտվերպեն”
  • Asturian: “Amberes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Antverpen”
  • Balinese: “Antwerp”
  • Bashkir: “Антверпен”
  • Basque: “Anberes”
  • Basque: “Antuerpen”
  • Belarusian: “Антверпен”
  • Belarusian: “Антвэрпэн”
  • Bengali: “আন্টভের্প”
  • Bosnian: “Antwerpen”
  • Breton: “Antwerpen”
  • Bulgarian: “Антверпен”
  • Burmese: “အန့်တွပ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Anvers”
  • Cebuano: “Antwerpen”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەنتۆرپ”
  • Chavacano: “Antwerpen”
  • Chechen: “Антверпен”
  • Chinese: “Antorf”
  • Chinese: “Antwerpen”
  • Chinese: “Anvers”
  • Chinese: “央凡尔”
  • Chinese: “安特卫普”
  • Chinese: “安特衛普”
  • Chinese: “安特衞普”
  • Chuvash: “Антверпен”
  • Corsican: “Antwerp”
  • Corsican: “Anversu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Antverpen”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Antverpiae”
  • Croatian: “Antwerpen”
  • Croatian: “Anvers”
  • Czech: “Antverpy”
  • Danish: “Antwerpen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Antwerp”
  • Dutch: “‘t Stad”
  • Dutch: “Antwerpen”
  • Dutch: “Diamantstad”
  • Dutch: “Koekenstad”
  • Dutch: “Scheldestad”
  • Dutch: “Sinjorenstad”
  • Dutch: “Stad Antwerpen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انتويرب”
  • Esperanto: “Antverpeno”
  • Esperanto: “Antwerpen”
  • Estonian: “Antwerpen”
  • Extremaduran: “Amberis”
  • Finnish: “Antwerpen”
  • Finnish: “Anvers”
  • French: “Antwerp”
  • French: “Antwerpen”
  • French: “Anvers”
  • Galician: “Antuerpen”
  • Galician: “Anveres”
  • Georgian: “ანტვერპენი”
  • German: “Antorf”
  • German: “Antorff”
  • German: “Antwerpen”
  • Greek: “Αμβέρσα”
  • Guarani: “Amberes”
  • Gujarati: “એન્ટવર્પ”
  • Haitian: “Anvè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Antwerp”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ôn-thi̍t-ví-phú”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Antwerp”
  • Hebrew: “אנטוורפן”
  • Hindi: “एंटवर्प”
  • Hungarian: “Antwerpen”
  • Icelandic: “Antwerpen”
  • Ido: “Antwerpen”
  • Indonesian: “Antwerpen”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Antwerpen”
  • Interlingua: “Antwerpen”
  • Interlingue: “Antwerpen”
  • Irish: “Antuairp”
  • Italian: “Anversa”
  • Japanese: “アントウェルペン”
  • Japanese: “アントワープ”
  • Javanese: “Antwerpen”
  • Kannada: “ಆಂಟ್ವರ್ಪ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಂಟ್ವೆರ್ಪ್”
  • Karekare: “Antwerp”
  • Kashubian: “Antwerpa”
  • Kazakh: “Антверпен”
  • Kirghiz: “Антверпен”
  • Korean: “안트베르펜”
  • Kotava: “Antwerpen”
  • Kurdish: “Antwerpen”
  • Ladino: “Antuerpia”
  • Latin: “Antverpia”
  • Latin: “Antwerpium”
  • Latvian: “Antverpene”
  • Limburgan: “Antwerpe”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Antwerp”
  • Lithuanian: “Antverpenas”
  • Lombard: “Anversa”
  • Low German: “Antwarp”
  • Low German: “Antwarpen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Antwerpen”
  • Macedonian: “Антверпен”
  • Malagasy: “Antwerpen”
  • Malay: “Antwerp”
  • Malayalam: “ആന്റ്‌വെർപ്”
  • Maltese: “Anversa”
  • Maori: “Anatawepa”
  • Marathi: “अँटवर्प”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Antwerpen”
  • Moksha: “Антвэрпэн”
  • Neapolitan: “Anversa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Antwerpen (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Antwerpen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Antwerpen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antwerpen”
  • Norwegian: “Antwerpen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Anvèrs”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Antwerpen”
  • Ossetian: “Антверпен”
  • Papiamento: “Antwerpen”
  • Persian: “آنتورپ”
  • Picard: “Anvérse”
  • Piemontese: “Antwerpen”
  • Polish: “Antwerpia”
  • Portuguese: “Antuérpia”
  • Portuguese: “Anvers”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade da Antuérpia”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Antuérpia”
  • Quechua: “Antwerpen”
  • Romanian: “Antwerp”
  • Romanian: “Anvers”
  • Russian: “Антверпен”
  • Samogitian: “Antverpens”
  • Scots: “Antwerp”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Antwerpen”
  • Serbian: “Антверпен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Antwerpen”
  • Sicilian: “Anversa”
  • Silesian: “Antwyrpijo”
  • Sindhi: “انٽورپ”
  • Sinhala: “අන්ට්වර්ප්”
  • Sinhala: “ඇන්ට්වර්ප්, බෙල්ජියම”
  • Slovak: “Antverpy”
  • Slovenian: “Antwerpen”
  • Spanish: “Amberes”
  • Swahili: “Antwerpen”
  • Swedish: “Antwerp”
  • Swedish: “Antwerpen”
  • Swedish: “Anvers”
  • Swiss German: “Antwärpe”
  • Tagalog: “Amberes”
  • Tajik: “Онтверп”
  • Tamil: “ஆண்ட்வெர்ப்”
  • Tatar: “Antwerpen”
  • Tatar: “Антверпен”
  • Telugu: “ఆంట్వెర్ప్”
  • Thai: “แอนต์เวิร์ป”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Antwerpen”
  • Turkish: “‘t Stad”
  • Turkish: “Antwerp”
  • Turkish: “Antwerpen”
  • Turkish: “Anvers”
  • Turkish: “Diamantstad”
  • Turkish: “Scheldestad”
  • Uighur: “Antwérp”
  • Ukrainian: “Антверпен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Antwerpen”
  • Urdu: “انتورب”
  • Urdu: “اینٹ ورپ”
  • Urdu: “اینٹ ورپن”
  • Urdu: “اینٹورپ”
  • Urdu: “اینٹورپن”
  • Uzbek: “Antverpen”
  • Venetian: “Anversa”
  • Veps: “Antverpen”
  • Vietnamese: “Antwerpen”
  • Vlaams: “Antwerpen”
  • Vlaams: “Antwerpn”
  • Volapük: “Antwerpen”
  • Walloon: “Anverse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Antwerp”
  • Welsh: “Antwerp”
  • Western Armenian: “Անտվերպեն”
  • Western Frisian: “Antwerpen”
  • Western Panjabi: “آنتویرپ”
  • Western Panjabi: “انٹیورپ”
  • Wu Chinese: “安特卫普”
  • Yiddish: “אנטווערפן”
  • Yue Chinese: “安特衞普”
  • Zeeuws: “Antwerpen”
  • “Antverpens”
  • “Antwerpen”
  • “ma Anwepen”
  • “ma tomo Anwepen”

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