Genk
Genk is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt. The municipality comprises only the town of Genk itself. It is one of the most important industrial towns in Flanders, located on the Albert Canal, between Antwerp and Liège.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Winny Biets, CC BY 4.0.
- Type: Town with 65,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Limburg, Belgium
- Also known as: “71016”, “Genk, Belgium”, and “Genk, Limburg”
- Neighbors: Maasmechelen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Genk railway station and Emile Van Dorenmuseum.
Genk railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sonuwe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Genk railway station is a railway station in Genk, Limburg, Belgium. The station opened on 3 March 1874 and is located on railway line 21D. The station was closed on 6 October 1941 and reopened on 26 May 1979.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterslag and Langerlo.
Waterschei
Suburb
Photo: Sonuwe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waterschei is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Genk.
Genk
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Hasselt, Limburg, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9655° or 50° 57′ 56″ northLongitude
5.5001° or 5° 30′ 1″ eastPopulation
65,000Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)Open location code
9F27XG82+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 1637602959OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2797671Wikidata ID
Q189692
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Genk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Genk”
- Arabic: “غنك”
- Arabic: “غِنْك”
- Arabic: “غينك”
- Basque: “Genk”
- Belarusian: “Генк”
- Bosnian: “Genk”
- Breton: “Genk”
- Bulgarian: “Генк”
- Catalan: “Genk”
- Cebuano: “Genk (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Genk”
- Chinese: “亨克”
- Chinese: “根克”
- Croatian: “Genk”
- Czech: “Genk”
- Danish: “Genk”
- Dutch: “Genk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جينك”
- Esperanto: “Genk”
- Finnish: “Genk”
- French: “Genk”
- Georgian: “გენკი”
- German: “Genk”
- Greek: “Γκενκ”
- Hebrew: “גנק”
- Hungarian: “Genk”
- Icelandic: “Genk”
- Indonesian: “Genk”
- Irish: “Genk”
- Italian: “Genk”
- Japanese: “ゲンク”
- Japanese: “ヘンク”
- Korean: “겡크”
- Korean: “헹크”
- Latin: “Geneche”
- Latvian: “Genka”
- Limburgan: “Genck”
- Limburgan: “Genk”
- Limburgan: “Gènk”
- Lithuanian: “Genk”
- Lithuanian: “Genkas”
- Luxembourgish: “Genk”
- Malay: “Genk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Genk”
- Norwegian: “Genk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Genk”
- Persian: “خنک”
- Persian: “ژانک”
- Polish: “Genk”
- Portuguese: “Genk”
- Romanian: “Genk”
- Russian: “Генк”
- Scots: “Genk”
- Serbian: “Genk”
- Serbian: “Генк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Genk”
- Silesian: “Genk”
- Slovak: “Genk”
- Spanish: “Genk”
- Swahili: “Genk”
- Swedish: “Genk (kommun i Belgien)”
- Swedish: “Genk”
- Tatar: “Геңк”
- Thai: “Genk”
- Thai: “เคงก์”
- Turkish: “Genk”
- Ukrainian: “Генк”
- Ukrainian: “Ґенк”
- Vietnamese: “Genk”
- Volapük: “Genk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Genk”
- Yue Chinese: “亨克”
- Zeeuws: “Genk”
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