Diest
Diest is a town of 23,000 inhabitants in the northeastern corner of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. The town is mainly known for its beguinage and ramparts.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Béguinage of Diest and Diest railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schaffen and Webbekom.
Diest
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.9844° or 50° 59′ 4″ north
Longitude
5.0504° or 5° 3′ 2″ east
Population
22,500
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BE DIE
Open location code
9F27X3M2+Q5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Diest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دايست”
- Arabic: “ديست”
- Basque: “Diest”
- Breton: “Diest”
- Bulgarian: “Дийст”
- Bulgarian: “Дист”
- Catalan: “Diest”
- Cebuano: “Diest (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Diest”
- Chinese: “迪斯特”
- Czech: “Diest”
- Danish: “Diest”
- Dutch: “Diest”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديست”
- Esperanto: “Diest”
- Faroese: “Diest”
- Finnish: “Diest”
- French: “Diest”
- German: “Diest”
- Hebrew: “דיסט”
- Hungarian: “Diest”
- Irish: “Diest”
- Italian: “Diest”
- Japanese: “ディースト”
- Kalaallisut: “Diest”
- Korean: “디스트”
- Latin: “Diensta”
- Latvian: “Diste”
- Lithuanian: “Distas”
- Luxembourgish: “Diest”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Diest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diest”
- Norwegian: “Diest”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Diest”
- Persian: “دیه”
- Polish: “Diest”
- Portuguese: “Diest”
- Romanian: “Diest”
- Russian: “Дийст”
- Russian: “Дист”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Diest”
- Slovak: “Diest”
- Spanish: “Diest”
- Swedish: “Diest”
- Thai: “ดีสต์”
- Turkish: “Diest”
- Ukrainian: “Діст (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Діст”
- Urdu: “ڈیسٹ”
- Vietnamese: “Diest”
- Vlaams: “Diest”
- Volapük: “Diest”
- Waray (Philippines): “Diest”
- Zeeuws: “Diest”
- “Diest”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Maanberg and Molenstede.
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