Ghent
Ghent is a city in East Flanders in Belgium. Ghent is a city with a population of 265,000 in 2020, with rich history. During the Middle Ages, Ghent was one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe.
- City with about 273,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code GNE
- Description: city in the province of East Flanders, Belgium
- Postal code: 9000
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of the Counts and Museum of Fine Arts.
Castle of the Counts
The Gravensteen is a medieval castle in the city of Ghent, East Flanders in Belgium.
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts an art museum in Ghent…
St Bavo’s Cathedral
Church
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Saint Bavo's Cathedral, also known as Sint-Baafs…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sint-Amandsberg and Gentbrugge.
Ghent
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Latitude
51.0538° or 51° 3′ 14″ north
Longitude
3.725° or 3° 43′ 30″ east
UN/LOCODE
BE GNE
Open location code
9F353P3G+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Ghent” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Гент”
- Afrikaans: “Gent”
- Albanian: “Gent”
- Arabic: “خنت”
- Arabic: “غنت”
- Arabic: “غينت”
- Arabic: “قنط”
- Aragonese: “Gant”
- Armenian: “Գենտ”
- Asturian: “Gante”
- Azerbaijani: “Gent”
- Basque: “Gante”
- Bavarian: “Gent”
- Belarusian: “Гент”
- Bengali: “গেন্ট”
- Bengali: “ঘেন্ট”
- Bengali: “জেন্ট”
- Breton: “Gent”
- Breton: “Ghent”
- Bulgarian: “Гент”
- Burmese: “ဂင့်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Gant”
- Cebuano: “Gent”
- Central Kurdish: “گێنت”
- Chavacano: “Gent”
- Chechen: “Гент”
- Chinese: “根特”
- Corsican: “Gent”
- Croatian: “Gent”
- Czech: “Gent”
- Danish: “Gent”
- Dutch: “Arteveldestad”
- Dutch: “Gent”
- Dutch: “Stad Gent”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنت”
- Esperanto: “Gento”
- Estonian: “Gent”
- Extremaduran: “Ganti”
- Finnish: “Gent”
- French: “Gand”
- Galician: “Gante”
- Georgian: “გენტი”
- German: “Blumenstadt”
- German: “Gent”
- Gothic: “𐌲𐌴𐌽𐍄”
- Gothic: “𐍇𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍄”
- Greek: “Γάνδη”
- Gujarati: “ઘેન્ટ”
- Hebrew: “גנט”
- Hindi: “खेंट”
- Hindi: “गेंट”
- Hungarian: “Gent”
- Icelandic: “Gent”
- Ido: “Gent”
- Indonesian: “Gent”
- Indonesian: “Ghent”
- Interlingue: “Gent”
- Irish: “Gent”
- Italian: “Gand”
- Italian: “Gent”
- Italian: “Ghent”
- Italian: “Guanto”
- Japanese: “ヘント”
- Jèrriais: “Gent”
- Kannada: “ಗೆಂಟ್”
- Kannada: “ಘೆಂಟ್”
- Karekare: “Ghent”
- Kirghiz: “Гент”
- Kölsch: “Jänt (Shtadt)”
- Kölsch: “Jänt”
- Korean: “헨트”
- Latin: “Ganda”
- Latin: “Gandavum”
- Latvian: “Gāna”
- Latvian: “Ģente”
- Limburgan: “Gent”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Gent”
- Lithuanian: “Gentas”
- Lombard: “Gant”
- Low German: “Gent”
- Luxembourgish: “Gent”
- Macedonian: “Гент”
- Malagasy: “Gent”
- Malay: “Gent”
- Maltese: “Gent”
- Maltese: “Ghent”
- Marathi: “गेंट”
- Mingrelian: “გენტი”
- Moksha: “Гэнт”
- Mongolian: “Гент”
- Nauru: “Ghent”
- Northern Frisian: “Gent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gent”
- Norwegian: “Gent”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gant”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gænt”
- Ossetian: “Гент”
- Papiamento: “Gent”
- Persian: “خنت”
- Persian: “گنت”
- Pfaelzisch: “Gent”
- Picard: “Gand”
- Piemontese: “Gent”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ghent”
- Polish: “Gandawa”
- Portuguese: “Gande”
- Portuguese: “Gante”
- Portuguese: “Gent”
- Portuguese: “Ghent”
- Romanian: “Gent”
- Russian: “Гент”
- Rusyn: “Гент”
- Santali: “ᱜᱷᱮᱱᱴ”
- Santali: “ᱜᱷᱮᱸᱴ”
- Scots: “Ghent”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gent”
- Serbian: “Гент”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gent”
- Sicilian: “Gent”
- Silesian: “Gent”
- Sinhala: “ඝෙන්ට්, බෙල්ජියම”
- Sinhala: “ඝෙන්ට්”
- Slovak: “Gent”
- Slovenian: “Gent”
- Spanish: “Gante”
- Sranan Tongo: “Gent”
- Swahili: “Gent”
- Swedish: “Gent”
- Swiss German: “Gent”
- Tagalog: “Gante”
- Tamil: “ஜிஹெண்ட்”
- Tatar: “Гент”
- Telugu: “ఘెంట్”
- Thai: “ก็อง”
- Thai: “เกนต์”
- Thai: “เคนต์”
- Turkish: “Gent-Gand”
- Turkish: “Gent”
- Turkish: “Ghent”
- Uighur: “Gant”
- Ukrainian: “Гент”
- Ukrainian: “Ґент”
- Urdu: “گینت”
- Urdu: “گینٹ”
- Uzbek: “Gent”
- Venetian: “Gand”
- Veps: “Gent”
- Vietnamese: “Gent”
- Vietnamese: “Ghent”
- Vlaams: “Gend” (historical)
- Vlaams: “Gent”
- Volapük: “Gent”
- Volapük: “Ghent”
- Võro: “Gent”
- Walloon: “Gant”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ghent”
- Welsh: “Gent”
- Western Armenian: “Կենթ”
- Western Frisian: “Gint”
- Western Panjabi: “غینٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “根特”
- Yakut: “Гент”
- Yue Chinese: “岡城”
- Zeeuws: “Gent”
- “ma tomo Kenta”
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