Flanders
West Flanders
Arrondissement of Bruges

Knokke-Heist

Knokke-Heist is a beach resort and town of 33,000 inhabitants on the Belgian sea coast in the northern corner of . The mayor, Count Leopold Lippens, said that he wants that worldly people would feel at home here.
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  • Type: Locality with 33,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in West Flanders, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Knokke” and “Knokkne”
  • Postal code: 8300
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Knokke Casino and Duinbergen railway station.

Casino
Photo: Lipstar, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a sea-front casino in the town of , in the administrative community Knokke-Heist, in the province of West Flanders in Flanders, Belgium.

Railway station
Duinbergen is a railway station in the town of Knokke-Heist, , . The station opened on 29 June 1920 and is located on line 51B. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving Knokke-Heist and , in , Belgium. The station was built in 1920. It is run by the National Railway Company of Belgium as a terminal station located on the railway line 51B from and has services to and beyond to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Knokke and Heist-aan-Zee.

Suburb
is a town in the municipality of Knokke-Heist, which is located in the province of in , . The town itself has 15,708 inhabitants, while the municipality of Knokke-Heist has 33,818 inhabitants.

Suburb
, Heist or Heyst, is a town in Knokke-Heist, , . It was a prominent summer beach resort in the 1890s. It had a beachfront lined with hotels and a "dike" paved walkway on a storm fender.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Knokke-Heist

Latitude
51.35° or 51° 21′ north
Longitude
3.2667° or 3° 16′ east
Population
33,800
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE KHI
Open location code
9F3587X8+XM
Geo­Names ID
2794210
Wiki­data ID
Q12988
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Knokke-Heist” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Arabic: “كنوكه- هايست”
  • Asturian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Basque: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Belarusian: “Кноке-Хейст”
  • Breton: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Bulgarian: “Кноке-Хайст”
  • Catalan: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Cebuano: “Knokke-Heist (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Chinese: “克诺克-海斯特”
  • Chinese: “克诺克－海斯特”
  • Chinese: “克諾克-海斯特”
  • Danish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Dutch: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Dutch: “Knokke”
  • Esperanto: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Estonian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Finnish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • French: “Knocke-Heist”
  • French: “Knocke-Heyst”
  • French: “Knokke-Heist”
  • French: “Knokke”
  • German: “Knokke-Heist”
  • German: “Knokke”
  • Hebrew: “קנוקה-הייסט”
  • Hindi: “नॉकके-हेइस्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Irish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Italian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Japanese: “クノック＝ヘイスト”
  • Korean: “크노커헤이스트”
  • Latin: “Knokka et Heist”
  • Latvian: “Knoke-Heista”
  • Latvian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Limburgan: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Luxembourgish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Norwegian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Knokke-Heist”
  • Persian: “کنوکئست”
  • Polish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Polish: “Knokke”
  • Portuguese: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Portuguese: “Knokke”
  • Romanian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Russian: “Кнокке-Хейст”
  • Serbian: “Ноке-Хајст”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Slovak: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Slovak: “Knokke”
  • Slovenian: “Knokke - Heist”
  • Slovenian: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Slovenian: “Knokke”
  • Spanish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Spanish: “Knokke”
  • Swedish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Tatar: “Кнокке-Һейст”
  • Turkish: “Knocke Heyst”
  • Turkish: “Knokke Heist”
  • Turkish: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Ukrainian: “Кнокке-Гейст”
  • Vietnamese: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Vlaams: “Knokke-Eist”
  • Vlaams: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Volapük: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Walloon: “Knokke-Heist”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Knokke-Heist”
  • Welsh: “Knokke -Heist”
  • Zeeuws: “Knokke-Heist”

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