Hasselt
Hasselt is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg in the Flemish Region of Belgium. As of 1 August 2023, Hasselt had a total population of 80,846.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 76,000 residents
- Description: city in Limburg, Belgium
- Also known as: “Hasselt, Belgium”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hasselt railway station and Japanese Garden.
Hasselt railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sonuwe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hasselt railway station is a railway station in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium. The station opened on 24 October 1843 and it is located at 21 Stationsplein.
Japanese Garden
Garden
Photo: Fortinbras, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Japanese Garden of Hasselt is a park in the Belgian city of Hasselt. Designed in the traditional 17th-century style, it was donated to the Belgian city by the city of Itami. It is the largest Japanese garden in Europe.
Saint Quentin Cathedral
Church
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Quentin's Cathedral, also called Hasselt Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Hasselt Belgium. Its construction began in the 11th century, and continued for two centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Katarina and Diepenbeek.
Diepenbeek
Town
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Diepenbeek is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt. On January 1, 2012, Diepenbeek had a total population of 18,337. Its total area is 41.19 km2 which gives a population density of 430 inhabitants per square kilometre. Diepenbeek is situated 6 km southeast of Hasselt.
Sint-Lambrechts-Herk
Village
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Sint-Lambrechts-Herk is a sub-municipality of the city of Hasselt located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium. It was a separate municipality until 1977. On 1 January 1977, it was merged into Hasselt. Sint-Lambrechts-Herk is situated 4 km southwest of Hasselt.
Hasselt
- Categories: Belgian municipality with the title of city, municipality of Belgium, and locality
- Location: Limburg, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.9304° or 50° 55′ 49″ northLongitude
5.3378° or 5° 20′ 16″ eastPopulation
76,000Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)Open location code
9F27W8JQ+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 60564126OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
13494325Wikidata ID
Q58780
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hasselt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “België Hasselt”
- Afrikaans: “Hasselt, België”
- Afrikaans: “Hasselt”
- Arabic: “هاسلت”
- Arabic: “هسلت”
- Arabic: “هَسِلت”
- Arabic: “هصلط”
- Aragonese: “Hasselt”
- Armenian: “Հասելտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Hasselt”
- Balinese: “Hasselt”
- Basque: “Hasselt”
- Belarusian: “Гасэльт”
- Belarusian: “Хаселт”
- Belarusian: “Хасельт”
- Breton: “Hasselt”
- Bulgarian: “Хаселт”
- Catalan: “Hasselaar”
- Catalan: “Hasselse”
- Catalan: “Hasselt”
- Cebuano: “Hasselt”
- Chinese: “哈塞尔特”
- Chinese: “哈瑟尔特”
- Chinese: “哈瑟爾特”
- Chinese: “哈瑟特”
- Croatian: “Hasselt”
- Czech: “Hasselt”
- Danish: “Hasselt”
- Dutch: “Hasselt”
- Dutch: “Stad Hasselt”
- Esperanto: “Haselto”
- Esperanto: “Hasselt”
- Estonian: “Hasselt”
- Faroese: “Hasselt”
- Finnish: “Hasselt”
- French: “Hasselt”
- Galician: “Hasselt”
- Georgian: “ჰასელტი”
- German: “Hasselt”
- Greek: “Άσσελτ”
- Hebrew: “האסלט”
- Hungarian: “Hasselt”
- Icelandic: “Hasselt”
- Indonesian: “Belgia Hasselt”
- Indonesian: “Hasselt, Belgia”
- Indonesian: “Hasselt”
- Interlingue: “Hasselt”
- Irish: “Hasselt”
- Italian: “Hasselt”
- Japanese: “ハセルト”
- Japanese: “ハッセルト”
- Korean: “하설트”
- Korean: “하셀트”
- Latin: “Hasseletum”
- Latvian: “Haselta”
- Limburgan: “Hasselt”
- Limburgan: “Hàssëlt”
- Lithuanian: “Haseltas”
- Low German: “Hasselt”
- Luxembourgish: “Hasselt”
- Macedonian: “Хаселт”
- Manx: “Hasselt”
- Northern Frisian: “Hasselt (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Hasselt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hasselt”
- Norwegian: “Hasselt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hasselt”
- Ossetian: “Хасселт”
- Persian: “اسلت”
- Polish: “Hasselt”
- Portuguese: “Hasselt”
- Romanian: “Hasselt”
- Russian: “Хасселт”
- Russian: “Хассельт”
- Scots: “Hasselt”
- Serbian: “Hasselt”
- Serbian: “Хаселт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hasselt”
- Silesian: “Hasselt”
- Slovak: “Hasselt”
- Slovenian: “Hasselt”
- Spanish: “Hasselt”
- Swahili: “Hasselt”
- Swedish: “Hasselt”
- Tatar: “Һасселт”
- Thai: “Hasselt”
- Thai: “ฮัสเซิลต์”
- Thai: “ฮาสเซลต์”
- Thai: “ฮาสเซลท์”
- Turkish: “Hasselt”
- Ukrainian: “Гасселт”
- Urdu: “ہاسلٹ”
- Urdu: “ہاسیلت”
- Vietnamese: “Hasselt”
- Vlaams: “Hasselt”
- Volapük: “Hasselt”
- Walloon: “Hasse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hasselt”
- Welsh: “Hasselt”
- Western Frisian: “Hasselt”
- Wu Chinese: “哈瑟尔特”
- Zeeuws: “Hasselt (België)”
- Zeeuws: “Hasselt”
- “Hasselt”
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