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West Flanders
Arrondissement of Bruges

Bruges

Bruges is a picturesque city in , the northern part of . Once Europe's richest city, it is now both cosmopolitan and bourgeois in its compact size.
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  • Type: City with 118,000 residents
  • Description: city in West Flanders, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Brugge” and “布鲁日历史中心”
  • Postal code: 8000
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Belfry and Groeningemuseum.

Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of Bruges is a medieval bell tower in the centre of Bruges, Belgium. One of the city's most prominent symbols, the formerly housed a treasury and the municipal archives and served as an observation post for spotting fires and other dangers.

Museum
Photo: Le Fou, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a municipal in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers.

Town hall
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The of Bruges, , Belgium, is a landmark building and the seat of that city. Built in a late-Gothic monumental style between 1376 and 1421, it is one of the oldest city halls in the former Burgundian Netherlands.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sint-Pieters and Sint-Jozef.

Village
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, sometimes also called Sint-Pieters-op-den-Dijk, is a quarter of Bruges, in the province of , . It was a separate municipality until 1899. In 1899, it was merged into Bruges.

Neighborhood
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is a quarter in Bruges, which is the capital of the province of , in .

Village
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is a sub-municipality of the city of Bruges located in the , Flemish Region, . It was a separate municipality until 1971. On 1 January 1971, it was merged into Bruges.

Bruges

Latitude
51.2086° or 51° 12′ 31″ north
Longitude
3.2268° or 3° 13′ 36″ east
Population
118,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE BGS
Open location code
9F35665G+CP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1651558422
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2800931
Wiki­data ID
Q12994
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Bruges” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brugge”
  • Arabic: “بروج”
  • Aragonese: “Bruches”
  • Armenian: “Բռյուգե”
  • Armenian: “Բրյուգգե”
  • Asturian: “Bruxes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brügge”
  • Balinese: “Brugge”
  • Basque: “Brujas”
  • Belarusian: “Бруге”
  • Belarusian: “Бругэ”
  • Bengali: “ব্রুজস”
  • Bosnian: “Briž”
  • Bosnian: “Brugge”
  • Breton: “Brugge”
  • Bulgarian: “Брюге”
  • Catalan: “Bruges”
  • Catalan: “Brugge”
  • Cebuano: “Bruges (lungsod sa Belhika)”
  • Cebuano: “Bruges”
  • Cebuano: “Brugge”
  • Chinese: “布吕赫”
  • Chinese: “布呂赫”
  • Chinese: “布魯日”
  • Chinese: “布鲁日”
  • Croatian: “Brugge”
  • Czech: “Brugge”
  • Czech: “Bruggy”
  • Danish: “Brugge”
  • Danish: “Brügge”
  • Danish: “Brygge”
  • Dutch: “Brugge”
  • Dutch: “Stad Brugge”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروج”
  • Esperanto: “Bruĝo”
  • Estonian: “Brugge”
  • Extremaduran: “Brujas”
  • Finnish: “Brugge”
  • Finnish: “Brygge”
  • French: “Bruges”
  • French: “Brugge”
  • Galician: “Brugge”
  • Galician: “Bruxas”
  • Georgian: “ბრიუგე”
  • German: “Bruges”
  • German: “Brugge”
  • German: “Brügge”
  • German: “Venedig des Nordens”
  • Greek: “Βρύγη”
  • Greek: “Μπριζ”
  • Greek: “Μπρυζ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રુગેસ”
  • Hebrew: “ברוז‘”
  • Hebrew: “ברוז’”
  • Hebrew: “ברוז”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुग्ज”
  • Hindi: “ब्रूज”
  • Hungarian: “Bruges”
  • Hungarian: “Brugge”
  • Icelandic: “Brugge”
  • Ido: “Brugge”
  • Indonesian: “Brugge”
  • Interlingua: “Bruges”
  • Interlingue: “Brugge”
  • Irish: “Brugge”
  • Italian: “Bruges”
  • Italian: “Brugge”
  • Japanese: “ブルージュ”
  • Japanese: “ブルッヘ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೂಜಸ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Брюгге”
  • Korean: “브뤼허”
  • Latin: “Brugae”
  • Latvian: “Brige”
  • Limburgan: “Brögge”
  • Limburgan: “Brugge”
  • Lithuanian: “Briugė”
  • Low German: “Brügge”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bruges”
  • Macedonian: “Бриж”
  • Macedonian: “Брухе”
  • Malagasy: “Bruges”
  • Malay: “Brugge”
  • Maltese: “Bruges”
  • Maltese: “Brugge”
  • Marathi: “ब्रूज”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brügge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bruges”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brugge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brügge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brugge”
  • Norwegian: “Brugge”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brujas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bricg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycg (burh)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycg”
  • Ossetian: “Брюгге”
  • Persian: “بروخه”
  • Persian: “بروژ”
  • Picard: “Brudje”
  • Piemontese: “Brugge”
  • Polish: “Bruges”
  • Polish: “Brugge”
  • Polish: “Brugia”
  • Portuguese: “Bruges”
  • Romanian: “Bruges”
  • Romanian: “Brugges”
  • Russian: “Брюгге”
  • Scots: “Bruges”
  • Serbian: “Briž”
  • Serbian: “Бриж”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brugge”
  • Silesian: “Brugge”
  • Sinhala: “බ්රුගස්”
  • Slovak: “Bruggy”
  • Slovenian: “Brugge”
  • Spanish: “Brujas”
  • Swahili: “Brugge”
  • Swedish: “Brygge”
  • Tagalog: “Brugge”
  • Tagalog: “Brujas”
  • Tamil: “ப்ருக்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Брүгге”
  • Telugu: “బ్రుగేస్”
  • Thai: “บรูช”
  • Turkish: “Bruges”
  • Turkish: “Brugge”
  • Turkish: “Brügge”
  • Turkish: “Venedig des Nordens”
  • Ukrainian: “Брюгге”
  • Urdu: “بروج”
  • Urdu: “بروخے”
  • Uzbek: “Brugge”
  • Uzbek: “Bryugge”
  • Venetian: “Bruges (Fiandre)”
  • Venetian: “Bruges”
  • Venetian: “Bruza”
  • Vietnamese: “Bruges”
  • Vietnamese: “Brugge”
  • Vlaams: “Brugge”
  • Vlaams: “Bruhhe”
  • Volapük: “Brugge”
  • Walloon: “Brudje”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bruges”
  • Welsh: “Brugge”
  • Western Armenian: “Պրիւժ”
  • Western Frisian: “Brugge”
  • Western Panjabi: “برویز”
  • Wu Chinese: “布鲁日”
  • Yue Chinese: “布魯日”
  • Zeeuws: “Brugge”

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