Wallonia
Hainaut
Arrondissement of Thuin

Chimay

Chimay is in , near the French border. Chimay is located in the southern tip of the province . The municipality of Chimay consists of 14 villages.
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  • Type: Town with 9,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Postal code: 6460

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chimay Castle and Chimay Abbey.

Castle
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.
is a château in Chimay, , , Belgium. The castle has been owned by the Prince of Chimay and his ancestors for centuries, and it is open to the public for tours during part of the year.

Monastery
is an abbey in in the city of Chimay, , . It has been the name of two or three different religious houses.

Chimay

Latitude
50.0479° or 50° 2′ 53″ north
Longitude
4.3173° or 4° 19′ 2″ east
Population
9,900
Elevation
240 metres (787 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE CHM
Open location code
9F2628X8+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 64620446
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2800325
Wiki­data ID
Q95380
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Zeeuws—“Chimay” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Շիմե”
  • Basque: “Chimay”
  • Breton: “Chimay”
  • Bulgarian: “Шиме”
  • Catalan: “Chimay”
  • Cebuano: “Chimay (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Chimay”
  • Chinese: “希迈”
  • Czech: “Chimay”
  • Danish: “Chimay”
  • Dutch: “Chimay”
  • Esperanto: “Chimay”
  • French: “Chimay”
  • Galician: “Chimay”
  • German: “Chimay”
  • Greek: “Σιμαί”
  • Hebrew: “שימה”
  • Hungarian: “Chimay”
  • Irish: “Chimay”
  • Italian: “Chimay”
  • Japanese: “シメイ”
  • Korean: “쉬메”
  • Korean: “시메”
  • Latin: “Cimaium”
  • Latvian: “Chimay”
  • Latvian: “Šimē”
  • Limburgan: “Chimay”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chimay”
  • Moksha: “Шимэ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chimay”
  • Norwegian: “Chimay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chimay”
  • Persian: “شیمه”
  • Picard: “Chimai”
  • Polish: “Chimay”
  • Portuguese: “Chimay”
  • Romanian: “Chimay”
  • Russian: “Шиме”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chimay”
  • Slovak: “Chimay”
  • Spanish: “Chimay”
  • Swedish: “Chimay”
  • Turkish: “Chimay”
  • Ukrainian: “Шиме (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Шиме”
  • Vietnamese: “Chimay”
  • Vlaams: “Chimay”
  • Volapük: “Chimay”
  • Walloon: “Chimai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chimay”
  • Zeeuws: “Chimay”
  • “Chimay”

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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 “Chimay”. Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.