Bruges
Bruges is a picturesque city in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. Once Europe's richest city, it is now both cosmopolitan and bourgeois in its compact size.
- Type: City with 118,000 residents
- Description: city in West Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “Bruges (Fiandre)”, “Bruges (lungsod sa Belhika)”, “Brycg (burh)”, “Stad Brugge”, “Venedig des Nordens”, “Μπριζ”, “ブルージュ”, “布呂赫”, and “布鲁日历史中心”
- Postal code: 8000
- Neighbors: Damme and Knokke-Heist
Places of Interest
Highlights: Belfry and Groeningemuseum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sint-Pieters and Sint-Jozef.
Bruges
- Categories: big city, Belgian municipality with the title of city, municipality of Belgium, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.2086° or 51° 12′ 31″ north
Longitude
3.2268° or 3° 13′ 36″ east
Population
118,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BE BGS
Open location code
9F35665G+CP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- Cebuano: “Bruges”
- Chinese: “布吕赫”
- Chinese: “布魯日”
- Chinese: “布鲁日”
- Croatian: “Brugge”
- Czech: “Bruggy”
- Danish: “Brugge”
- Danish: “Brügge”
- Danish: “Brygge”
- Dutch: “Brugge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بروج”
- Esperanto: “Bruĝo”
- Estonian: “Brugge”
- Extremaduran: “Brujas”
- Finnish: “Brugge”
- Finnish: “Brygge”
- French: “Bruges”
- Galician: “Bruxas”
- Georgian: “ბრიუგე”
- German: “Brügge”
- Greek: “Βρύγη”
- Greek: “Μπρυζ”
- Gujarati: “બ્રુગેસ”
- Hebrew: “ברוז‘”
- Hebrew: “ברוז’”
- Hebrew: “ברוז”
- Hindi: “ब्रुज”
- Hindi: “ब्रूज”
- Hungarian: “Bruges”
- Hungarian: “Brugge”
- Icelandic: “Brugge”
- Ido: “Brugge”
- Indonesian: “Brugge”
- Interlingua: “Bruges”
- Interlingue: “Brugge”
- Irish: “Brugge”
- Italian: “Bruges”
- Japanese: “ブルッヘ”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೂಜಸ್”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೂಝ್”
- Karekare: “Bruges”
- Kirghiz: “Брюгге”
- Korean: “브뤼허”
- Latin: “Brugae”
- Latvian: “Brige”
- Limburgan: “Brögge”
- Limburgan: “Brugge”
- Lithuanian: “Briugė”
- Low German: “Brügge”
- Luxembourgish: “Bruges”
- Macedonian: “Брухе”
- Malagasy: “Bruges”
- Malay: “Brugge”
- Maltese: “Bruges”
- Marathi: “ब्रूज”
- Northern Frisian: “Brügge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brugge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brugge”
- Norwegian: “Brugge”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brujas”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bricg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycg”
- Ossetian: “Брюгге”
- Persian: “بروخه”
- Persian: “بروژ”
- Picard: “Brudje”
- Piemontese: “Brugge”
- Polish: “Brugia”
- Portuguese: “Bruges”
- Romanian: “Bruges”
- Romanian: “Brugges”
- Russian: “Брюгге”
- Scots: “Bruges”
- Serbian: “Briž”
- Serbian: “Бриж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brugge”
- Silesian: “Brugge”
- Sinhala: “බෲගස්, බෙල්ජියම”
- 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: “Brugge”
- Ukrainian: “Брюгге”
- Ukrainian: “Брюґґе”
- Urdu: “بروخے”
- Urdu: “بروژ”
- Uzbek: “Brugge”
- Uzbek: “Bryugge”
- 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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