Flemish Brabant
Flemish Brabant is one of the five provinces of Flanders. The province completely surrounds Brussels, the national capital. Brussels however is not a part of the province.Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Leuven and Kraainem.
Leuven
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Leuven is a flourishing and lively city of about 100,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It's a genuine university city which reflects in the streets.
Kraainem
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Kraainem is a municipality on the outskirts of the Brussels Capital Region, administratively belonging to Flemish Brabant. It began as a rural village, but the expansion of Brussels has led to a fast-paced urbanization of Kraainem throughout the 20th century, and the municipality has become a popular residence for Eurocrats and expats alike.
Vilvoorde
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Vilvoorde is a city of 44,000 inhabitants in the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. Lying just north of Brussels, the town functions more as a suburb of the national capital, having some regional importance due to its high schools and hospitals.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Aarschot and Tervuren.
Aarschot
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Aarschot is a town in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It is located halfway between the regional capital and bustling student city Leuven and the smaller town of Diest.
Tervuren
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Tervuren is a municipality in Flemish Brabant on the outskirts of the vast Sonian Forest, south-west of Brussels. It is best known as the host town of the Belgian king's summer residence, which is now the Museum for Central Africa, and for the beautiful park surrounding it.
Diest
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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.
Zaventem
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Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is located in the Dijleland area, one of the three large recreational areas which together form the Groene Gordel around the Brussels-Capital Region.
Grimbergen
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Grimbergen is a town of 37,000 inhabitants in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just north of Brussels. The town is known for its abbey, castles and abbey beer.
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
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Sint-Pieters-Leeuw is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Oudenaken, Ruisbroek, Sint-Laureins-Berchem, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw proper and Vlezenbeek.
Zoutleeuw
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Zoutleeuw is a small town of about 8,000 inhabitants in the province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium. Zoutleeuw is often overlooked by many international tourists, but can make an interesting day out from Leuven.
Keerbergen
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Keerbergen is a small town in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant with a population of about 12,000.
Flemish Brabant
- Type: province of Belgium with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: province in Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “Flemish Brabant Province”
- Neighbors: Antwerp, East Flanders, Hainaut, Liège, Limburg, and Walloon Brabant
- Location: Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Flemish Brabant” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Albanian: “Brabanti Flamand”
- Arabic: “برابانت فلاماند”
- Aragonese: “Brabant Flamenco”
- Armenian: “Ֆլամանդական Բրաբանտ”
- Asturian: “Brabante Flamencu”
- Azerbaijani: “Flamand Brabantı”
- Balinese: “Brabant Flandria”
- Basque: “Flandriako Brabante”
- Belarusian: “Фламандскі Брабант”
- Belarusian: “Флямандзкі Брабант”
- Bengali: “ফ্লেমিশ ব্র্যাবেন্ট”
- Bosnian: “Flamanski Brabant”
- Breton: “Brabant Flandrez”
- Bulgarian: “Фламандски Брабант”
- Catalan: “Brabant Flamenc”
- Cebuano: “Provincie Vlaams-Brabant”
- Chinese: “Vlaams-Brabant Séng”
- Chinese: “佛拉芒布拉邦省”
- Chinese: “弗拉芒布拉班特省”
- Chinese: “弗拉芒布拉邦”
- Croatian: “Flamanski Brabant”
- Czech: “Vlámský Brabant”
- Danish: “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Dutch: “BE-VBR”
- Dutch: “Brabant”
- Dutch: “Provincie Vlaams-Brabant”
- Dutch: “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برابانت فلاماند”
- Esperanto: “Flandra Brabanto”
- Estonian: “Flaami Brabandi provints”
- Estonian: “Flaami Brabant”
- Finnish: “Flanderin Brabant”
- French: “Brabant flamand”
- French: “Brabant Flamand”
- French: “Brabant-Flamand”
- French: “Province de Brabant Flamand”
- French: “province du Brabant flamand”
- French: “Province du Brabant flamand”
- Galician: “Brabante Flamengo”
- Galician: “Provincia do Brabante flamengo”
- Georgian: “ფლამანდიის ბრაბანტი”
- German: “Flämisch-Brabant”
- German: “Provinz Flämisch-Brabant”
- Greek: “Φλαμανδική Βραβάντη”
- Gujarati: “ફ્લેમિશ બ્રાબેંટ”
- Hebrew: “ברבנט הפלמית”
- Hindi: “फ्लेमिश ब्रबेंट”
- Hungarian: “Flamand-Brabant”
- Icelandic: “Flæmska Brabant”
- Indonesian: “Brabant Flanders”
- Irish: “Brabant Fhlóndras”
- Italian: “Brabante Fiammingo”
- Italian: “provincia del Brabante Fiammingo”
- Italian: “Provincia del Brabante Fiammingo”
- Japanese: “フラームス＝ブラバント州”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ಲೆಮಿಶ್ ಬ್ರಬಂಟ್”
- Kölsch: “Flämesh Brabant”
- Korean: “플람스브라반트주”
- Latin: “Brabantia Flandrica”
- Latvian: “Flāmu Brabante”
- Limburgan: “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Limburgan: “Vlaams-Braobant”
- Lithuanian: “Flamandų Brabanto provincija”
- Low German: “Floams Broabant”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Flämesche Brabant”
- Luxembourgish: “Province Brabant flamand”
- Macedonian: “Фламански Брабант”
- Malay: “Brabant Flanders”
- Maltese: “Brabant Fjamming”
- Marathi: “फ्लाम्स ब्राबांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vlaams-Brabant Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Fleemisk Brabant”
- Northern Frisian: “Fleemisk-Brabant”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flamsk Brabant”
- Norwegian: “Flamsk Brabant”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brabant Flamenc”
- Ossetian: “Фламандаг Брабант”
- Persian: “برابانت فلاندر”
- Picard: “Brabant flamink”
- Picard: “Brabant flaminke”
- Polish: “Brabancja Flamandzka”
- Portuguese: “Brabante Flamengo”
- Pushto: “فلېميش برابانت”
- Romanian: “Brabantul Flamand”
- Russian: “Фламандский Брабант”
- Scots: “Flemish Brabant”
- Serbian: “Фламански Брабант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Flamanski Brabant”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්ලෙමිෂ් බ්රබන්ට් පළාත, බෙල්ජියම”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්ලෙමිෂ් බ්රබන්ට්”
- Slovak: “Flámsky Brabant”
- Slovenian: “Flamski Brabant”
- Slovenian: “Flandrijski Brabant”
- Slovenian: “Provincie Vlaams-Brabant”
- Spanish: “Brabante Flamenco”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Brabante Flamenco”
- Swedish: “Flamländska Brabant”
- Tamil: “பிலெமிஷ் பிரபான்ட்”
- Tamil: “பிளமிஸ் பிராபர்ன்ட்”
- Telugu: “ఫ్లెమిష్ బ్రాబంట్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเฟลมิชบราบันต์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Provinz Flämisch-Brabant”
- Tumbuka: “Flemish Brabant”
- Turkish: “Flaman Brabant”
- Ukrainian: “Фламандський Брабант”
- Urdu: “فلیمش برابنٹ”
- Uzbek: “Flemish Brabant”
- Vietnamese: “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Vlaams: “Vlams-Broabant”
- Volapük: “Brabän Flanänik”
- Volapük: “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Walloon: “Braibant flamind”
- Walloon: “Province do Braibant flamind”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vlaams-Brabant”
- Welsh: “Brabant Fflandrysaidd”
- Western Frisian: “Flaamsk-Brabân”
- Western Panjabi: “فلیمش برابانت”
- Wu Chinese: “弗拉芒布拉班特省”
- Yue Chinese: “弗拉芒布拉邦”
- Zeeuws: “Vlaoms-Braebant”
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