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Schaerbeek or Schaarbeek is one of the 19 municipalities of the , Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the , , and .
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  • Type: Town with 131,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Cité des Ânes”, “Ezelstad”, “Schaerbeek”, “Schoerebeik”, “Schoûrebeik”, and “Skerbek”
  • Postal code: 1030
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brussels-North Railway Station and Schaerbeek railway station.

Railway station
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is one of the three major railway stations in , Belgium; the other two are Brussels-Central and . Every regular domestic and international train passing there has a planned stop.

Railway station
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or Schaarbeek railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek in , Belgium, opened in 1887. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium.

Park
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is an urban public park of 20 ha in the municipality of Schaerbeek in , Belgium. The hilly English-style park was designed between 1901 and 1904 by the landscape architect Edmond Galoppin, as part of an urban project including the Teniers-Josaphat district.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Business District and North-East.

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The is a district in , .

The of is a residential and commercial district of 's capital, bordering Schaarbeek to the south-west and to the south.

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The is the historic of , including the world's most beautiful town square, the Grand-Place which is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Schaarbeek

Latitude
50.8676° or 50° 52′ 3″ north
Longitude
4.37371° or 4° 22′ 25″ east
Population
131,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE SBK
Open location code
9F26V99F+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 66169638
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2787149
Wiki­data ID
Q12887
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Schaarbeek” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Schaarbeek”
  • Arabic: “سخربيك”
  • Arabic: “سكاربيك”
  • Arabic: “سكربيك”
  • Armenian: “Սխաարբեեկ”
  • Armenian: “Սխարբեեկ”
  • Asturian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sxarbek”
  • Basque: “Schaerbeek”
  • Belarusian: “Схарбек”
  • Breton: “Schaarbeek”
  • Bulgarian: “Схарбек”
  • Catalan: “Schaarbeek”
  • Catalan: “Schaerbeek”
  • Cebuano: “Schaerbeek”
  • Chinese: “夏比克”
  • Chinese: “斯卡尔贝克”
  • Chinese: “斯哈尔贝克”
  • Chinese: “斯哈爾貝克”
  • Croatian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Czech: “Schaerbeek”
  • Danish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Dutch: “Cité des Ânes”
  • Dutch: “Ezelstad”
  • Dutch: “Schaarbeek”
  • Dutch: “Schaerbeek”
  • Dutch: “Schoerebeik”
  • Dutch: “Schoûrebeik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيربيك”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝarbeko”
  • Esperanto: “Schaarbeek”
  • Estonian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Finnish: “Schaarbeek”
  • Finnish: “Schaerbeek”
  • French: “Cité des Ânes”
  • French: “Ezelstad”
  • French: “Schaarbeek”
  • French: “Schaerbeek”
  • French: “Schoerebeik”
  • French: “Schoûrebeik”
  • Galician: “Schaarbeek”
  • Galician: “Schaerbeek”
  • German: “Schaarbeek”
  • German: “Schaerbeek”
  • German: “Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek”
  • Greek: “Σάαρμπεκ”
  • Hebrew: “סכארבק”
  • Hebrew: “סכרבק”
  • Hungarian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Indonesian: “Schaerbeek-Schaarbeek”
  • Irish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Italian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Japanese: “スカールベーク”
  • Korean: “스카르베크”
  • Korean: “스하르베이크”
  • Latin: “Scarbeca”
  • Latin: “Scarbecca”
  • Limburgan: “Schaarbeek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schaarbeek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Macedonian: “Схарбек”
  • Maltese: “Schaerbeek”
  • Moksha: “Схарбэк”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schaerbeek”
  • Norwegian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Schaerbeek”
  • Persian: “شئربئک”
  • Polish: “Schaarbeek”
  • Polish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Portuguese: “Schaerbeek”
  • Romanian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Russian: “Схарбек”
  • Scots: “Schaerbeek”
  • Serbian: “Схарбек”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Slovak: “Schaerbeek”
  • Slovenian: “Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek”
  • Spanish: “Schaarbeek”
  • Spanish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Swedish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Thai: “สการ์เบก”
  • Turkish: “Schaarbeek”
  • Turkish: “Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek”
  • Turkish: “Schaerbeek”
  • Ukrainian: “Схарбек”
  • Urdu: “سخاربیک”
  • Venetian: “Schaerbeek”
  • Vlaams: “Schaarbeek”
  • Volapük: “Schaarbeek”
  • Walloon: “Cité des Ânes”
  • Walloon: “Ezelstad”
  • Walloon: “Schaarbeek”
  • Walloon: “Schaerbeek”
  • Walloon: “Schoerebeik”
  • Walloon: “Schoûrebeik”
  • Walloon: “Skerbek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Schaerbeek”
  • Welsh: “Schaerbeek”
  • Western Panjabi: “شاربیک”
  • Zeeuws: “Schaerbeek”

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