Antwerp
Antwerp is one of the five provinces of Flanders. Most information that you might expect to find here can be found either on the page for Flanders, on the page for Belgium or on one of the city pages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Antwerp and Mechelen.
Antwerp
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Antwerp is the capital of the eponymous province in the region of Flanders in Belgium. 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.
Mechelen
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Mechelen is a historically important city on the river Dyle in the centre of Flanders. It is a vibrant town, mixing trendy and traditional. Its carillon school is world-renowned, training students from all over the world in the art of playing carillons, sets of 24 or more bells hung in church towers.
Lier
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Lier is a city of about 36,000 inhabitants in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. Lier is often overlooked by many international tourists, but can make an interesting day out from Antwerp or Mechelen.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Turnhout and Herentals.
Turnhout
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Turnhout is a town in the province of Antwerp, counting 43,000 inhabitants. It is the largest town in the eastern part of the province. The town is located 40 km east of Antwerp, 30 km from Dutch cities Breda, Tilburg and 40 km from Eindhoven, the largest city in the southern part of the Netherlands.
Herentals
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Herentals is a city of about 28,000 inhabitants in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. Herentals is often overlooked by many international tourists, but can make an interesting day out from Antwerp or Mechelen.
Antwerp
- Type: province of Belgium with 1,930,000 residents
- Description: province in Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “Antwerp (province)”, “Antwerp Province”, “Antwerpen”, “BE-VAN”, and “Province of Antwerp”
- Neighbors: East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Limburg, North Brabant, and Zeeland
- Location: Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Antwerp” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Antwerpen”
- Albanian: “Provinca Antwerp”
- Arabic: “أنتفيرب”
- Aragonese: “Provincia d’Anvers”
- Armenian: “Անտվերպեն”
- Asturian: “Provincia d’Amberes”
- Azerbaijani: “Antverpen”
- Balinese: “Propinsi Antwerpen”
- Basque: “Anberesko probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Антверпен, правінцыя”
- Belarusian: “Антверпен”
- Belarusian: “Антвэрпэн (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Антвэрпэн”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Антверпен”
- Bengali: “এন্টওয়ার্প”
- Bosnian: “Antwerpen”
- Breton: “Antwerpen”
- Bulgarian: “Антверпен”
- Catalan: “Província d’Anvers”
- Cebuano: “Provincie Antwerpen”
- Chinese: “Antwerp Séng”
- Chinese: “安特卫普省”
- Chinese: “安特衛普省”
- Croatian: “Antwerpen”
- Czech: “Antverpy”
- Danish: “Antwerpen”
- Dutch: “Antwerpen (provincie)”
- Dutch: “Antwerpen”
- Dutch: “Provincie Antwerpen”
- Esperanto: “Antverpeno”
- Estonian: “Antwerpeni provints”
- Faroese: “Antwerpen”
- Finnish: “Antwerpenin provinssi”
- French: “Anvers”
- French: “province d’Anvers”
- French: “Province d’Anvers”
- Galician: “Provincia de Anveres”
- Georgian: “ანტვერპენის პროვინცია”
- German: “Antwerpen”
- German: “Provinz Antwerpen”
- Greek: “Αμβέρσα”
- Gujarati: “એન્ટવર્પ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אנטוורפן”
- Hindi: “एंटवर्प (प्रांत )”
- Hungarian: “Antwerpen”
- Icelandic: “Antwerpen-hérað”
- Indonesian: “Antwerpen”
- Irish: “Cúige Antuairp”
- Italian: “provincia d’Anversa”
- Italian: “Provincia di Anversa”
- Japanese: “アントウェルペン州”
- Kannada: “ಆಂಟ್ವರ್ಪ್”
- Kölsch: “Antvärrpe”
- Kölsch: “Antwerpen”
- Korean: “안트베르펜주”
- Kurdish: “Antwerpen (parêzgeh)”
- Kurdish: “Antwerpen”
- Latin: “Antverpia”
- Latin: “Provincia Antverpia”
- Latvian: “Antverpene”
- Latvian: “Antverpenes province”
- Limburgan: “Antwerpe”
- Lithuanian: “Antverpeno provincija”
- Low German: “Antwaarp”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Antwerpen”
- Luxembourgish: “Province d’Anvers”
- Macedonian: “Антверпен”
- Malay: “Wilayah Antwerpen”
- Maltese: “Antwerp”
- Marathi: “अँटवर्प प्रांत”
- Marathi: “अँटवर्प”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Antwerp Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Antwerpen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Antwerpen (provins)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Antwerpen”
- Norwegian: “Antwerpen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província d’Anvèrs”
- Ossetian: “Антверпен”
- Ossetian: “Антверпены провинци”
- Persian: “استان آنتورپ”
- Picard: “Anvérse”
- Picard: “Prouvinche d‘ Anvérse”
- Polish: “Antwerpia”
- Polish: “Prowincja Antwerpia”
- Portuguese: “Antuérpia”
- Romanian: “Anvers”
- Russian: “Антверпен”
- Scots: “Antwerp”
- Serbian: “Антверпен”
- Serbian: “Провинција Антверпен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Antwerpen (provincija)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Antwerpen”
- Sinhala: “අන්ට්වර්ප්”
- Slovak: “Antverpy”
- Slovenian: “provinca Antwerpen”
- Spanish: “Amberes”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Amberes”
- Swedish: “Antwerpen”
- Tamil: “அன்ட்வெர்ப்”
- Tamil: “ஆண்ட்வெர்ப்”
- Telugu: “ఆంట్వర్ప్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดแอนต์เวิร์ป”
- Turkish: “Anvers”
- Ukrainian: “Антверпен”
- Urdu: “اینٹورپ صوبہ”
- Urdu: “اینٹورپ”
- Urdu: “اینٹورپن صوبہ”
- Urdu: “صوبہ اینٹ ورپ”
- Urdu: “صوبہ اینٹورپن”
- Vietnamese: “Antwerp”
- Vietnamese: “Antwerpen”
- Vlaams: “Antwerpn”
- Vlaams: “Provinsje Antwerpn”
- Volapük: “Antwerpen”
- Walloon: “Anverse”
- Walloon: “Province d‘ Anverse”
- Walloon: “Province d’ Anverse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Antwerpen”
- Welsh: “Antwerp”
- Western Frisian: “Antwerpen”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ انٹیورپ”
- Wu Chinese: “安特卫普省”
- Yue Chinese: “安特衛普省”
- Zeeuws: “Antwerpen”
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