Wallonia
Hainaut
Arrondissement of Thuin

Binche

Binche is a small town in the Belgian province of about 34 miles south of . The Carnival de Binche 's most famous carnival, attracts thousands of visitors annually.
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  • Type: Town with 33,500 residents
  • Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Postal code: 7130
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Binche railway station and Town Hall of Binche.

Railway station
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.

Town hall
Photo: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Castle
was a royal residence located in Binche, in today's province of , . The medieval castle and subsequent Renaissance palace served as residence for the counts of Hainaut, the dukes of Burgundy and the Habsburg rulers of the Netherlands.

Binche

Latitude
50.4103° or 50° 24′ 37″ north
Longitude
4.1652° or 4° 9′ 55″ east
Population
33,500
Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE BCI
Open location code
9F26C568+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428181182
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2801922
Wiki­data ID
Q95121
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Binche” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بينشي”
  • Basque: “Binche”
  • Breton: “Binche”
  • Bulgarian: “Бенш”
  • Catalan: “Binche”
  • Cebuano: “Binche (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Binche”
  • Chinese: “班什”
  • Danish: “Binche”
  • Dutch: “Binche”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بينشى”
  • Esperanto: “Binche”
  • Estonian: “Binche”
  • Finnish: “Binche”
  • French: “Binche”
  • German: “Binche”
  • Hebrew: “בנש”
  • Hungarian: “Binche”
  • Interlingue: “Binche”
  • Irish: “Binche”
  • Italian: “Binche”
  • Japanese: “バンシュ”
  • Korean: “뱅슈”
  • Latin: “Binchium”
  • Latvian: “Benša”
  • Latvian: “Binche”
  • Limburgan: “Binche”
  • Luxembourgish: “Binche”
  • Macedonian: “Бенш”
  • Northern Frisian: “Binche”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Binche”
  • Norwegian: “Binche”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Binche”
  • Persian: “بنش”
  • Picard: “Binche”
  • Polish: “Binche”
  • Portuguese: “Binche”
  • Romanian: “Binche”
  • Russian: “Бенш”
  • Serbian: “Бенш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Binche”
  • Slovak: “Binche”
  • Spanish: “Binche”
  • Swahili: “Binche”
  • Swedish: “Binche”
  • Turkish: “Binche”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенш”
  • Vietnamese: “Binche”
  • Volapük: “Binche”
  • Walloon: “Bince”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Binche”
  • Welsh: “Binche”
  • Zeeuws: “Binche”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Binche”. Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.