Avelgem
Avelgem is a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality has more than 10,000 inhabitants. Avelgem is in the extreme southeast of the province, southeast of Kortrijk, along the Scheldt, against the border with the provinces of East Flanders and Hainaut.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 10,200 residents
- Description: municipality in West Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “34003”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Martin’s Church (Avelgem) and Brug van de Waterhoek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiegem and Escanaffles.
Tiegem
Village
Tiegem is a village in the municipality of Anzegem, near Oudenaarde, West Flanders, Belgium. Tiegem was the birthplace of St. Arnold of Soissons.
Escanaffles
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Escanaffles is a village of Wallonia in the Belgian municipality of Celles, Hainaut Province.
Avelgem
- Category: municipality of Belgium
- Location: Arrondissement of Kortrijk, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Avelgem” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Avelgem”
- Breton: “Avelgem”
- Bulgarian: “Авелгем”
- Catalan: “Avelgem”
- Cebuano: “Avelgem”
- Chinese: “阿弗尔海姆”
- Czech: “Avelgem”
- Danish: “Avelgem”
- Dutch: “Avelgem”
- Esperanto: “Avelgem”
- Estonian: “Avelgemi vald”
- French: “Avelgem”
- French: “Avelghem”
- German: “Avelgem”
- Greek: “Άβελχεμ”
- Hungarian: “Avelgem”
- Irish: “Avelgem”
- Italian: “Avelgem”
- Limburgan: “Avelgem”
- Luxembourgish: “Avelgem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Avelgem”
- Norwegian: “Avelgem”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Avelgem”
- Persian: “اولژم”
- Polish: “Avelgem”
- Portuguese: “Avelgem”
- Romanian: “Avelgem”
- Russian: “Авелгем”
- Slovak: “Avelgem”
- Spanish: “Avelgem”
- Swedish: “Avelgem (kommun i Belgien)”
- Swedish: “Avelgem”
- Turkish: “Avelgem”
- Turkish: “Avelghem”
- Uzbek: “Avelgem”
- Vietnamese: “Avelgem”
- Vlaams: “Oavelgem”
- Volapük: “Avelgem”
- Waray (Philippines): “Avelgem”
- Western Frisian: “Avelgem”
- Zeeuws: “Aovelgem”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Avelgem”. Photo: LimoWreck, CC BY 2.5.