Eeklo
Eeklo is a town in the northwestern part of East Flanders. Eeklo is about 20 km north of Ghent, the capital of the province. The town has almost 21,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 20,700 residents
- Description: city in East Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “43005” and “Eekloo”
Photo: Khimscho, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eeklo railway station and Belfry of Eeklo.
Eeklo railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wester, Public domain.
Eeklo is a railway station in Eeklo, East Flanders, Belgium. The station opened on 25 June 1861 on the Line 58. The train services are operated by NMBS/SNCB.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balgerhoeke.
Balgerhoeke
Hamlet
Photo: Spotter2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balgerhoeke is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km northwest of Eeklo.
Eeklo
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Eeklo, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1845° or 51° 11′ 4″ northLongitude
3.5666° or 3° 33′ 60″ eastPopulation
20,700Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
9F355HM8+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 64801366OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2798988Wikidata ID
Q12440
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Satellite Map
Discover Eeklo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Zeeuws—“Eeklo” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Էկլո”
- Basque: “Eeklo”
- Belarusian: “Экла (Бельгія)”
- Belarusian: “Экла”
- Belarusian: “Эклё”
- Breton: “Eeklo”
- Bulgarian: “Екло”
- Catalan: “Eeklo”
- Cebuano: “Eeklo (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Eeklo”
- Chinese: “埃克洛”
- Czech: “Eeklo”
- Danish: “Eeklo”
- Dutch: “Eecloo”
- Dutch: “Eeklo”
- Esperanto: “Eeklo”
- Estonian: “Eeklo”
- French: “Eeklo”
- German: “Eeklo”
- Hebrew: “אקלו”
- Hungarian: “Eeklo”
- Indonesian: “Eeklo”
- Irish: “Eeklo”
- Italian: “Eeklo”
- Japanese: “エークロ”
- Japanese: “エークロー”
- Lithuanian: “Ėklas”
- Luxembourgish: “Eeklo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eeklo”
- Norwegian: “Eeklo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eeklo”
- Persian: “اکلو”
- Polish: “Eeklo”
- Portuguese: “Eeklo”
- Romanian: “Eeklo”
- Russian: “Eccloo”
- Russian: “Экло”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eeklo”
- Silesian: “Eeklo”
- Slovak: “Eeklo”
- Spanish: “Eeklo”
- Swedish: “Eeklo”
- Turkish: “Eeklo”
- Ukrainian: “Екло”
- Vietnamese: “Eeklo”
- Vlaams: “Êeklo”
- Volapük: “Eeklo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Eeklo”
- Zeeuws: “Eeklo”
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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 “Eeklo”. Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.