Flanders
West Flanders
Arrondissement of Veurne

Koksijde

Koksijde is a sea resort in . It consists of Koksijde section, the seaside resort of Oostduinkerke and the rural village of Wulpen. In 2018, it had 22,000 permanent residents.
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  • Type: Town with 22,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in West Flanders, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Coxyde”
  • Postal code: 8670
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ten Duinen Abbey and Hoge Blekker.

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or the Abbey of the Dunes was a Cistercian monastery at Koksijde in what is now . It was one of the richest and most influential religious institutions in the medieval County of Flanders.

Nature reserve
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is a nature reserve.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include De Panne and Oostduinkerke.

Village
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West Flanders is one of the five provinces of in and the country's westernmost. It encompasses Belgium's entire coastline and thus is a favourite travel destination for Belgians in the summer months. is situated 3½ km southwest of Koksijde.

Village
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is a place on the southern west coast of , located in the province of . Once a municipality of its own, now is a sub-municipality in the municipality of Koksijde.

Hamlet
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a village at the Belgian West Coast, part of Koksijde, which also includes . Its name refers to , a 12th-century abbot of the Abbey of Ten Duinen.

Koksijde

Latitude
51.1188° or 51° 7′ 8″ north
Longitude
2.6349° or 2° 38′ 6″ east
Population
22,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE KKS
Open location code
9F344J9M+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 720858823
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2794166
Wiki­data ID
Q465545
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Koksijde” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Koksijde”
  • Breton: “Coxyde”
  • Breton: “Koksijde”
  • Bulgarian: “Коксейде”
  • Catalan: “Koksijde”
  • Cebuano: “Koksijde”
  • Chinese: “科克賽德”
  • Chinese: “科克赛德”
  • Danish: “Koksijde”
  • Dutch: “Coxijde”
  • Dutch: “Koksijde”
  • Esperanto: “Koksijde”
  • Esperanto: “Koksijdo”
  • Estonian: “Koksijde”
  • French: “Coxyde-Bains”
  • French: “Coxyde-Village”
  • French: “Coxyde”
  • French: “Koksijde”
  • German: “Coxyde”
  • German: “Koksijde”
  • Hebrew: “קוקזידה”
  • Hungarian: “Koksijde”
  • Irish: “Koksijde”
  • Italian: “Coxyde”
  • Italian: “Koksijde”
  • Japanese: “コクサイデ”
  • Japanese: “コクスアイデ”
  • Korean: “콕세이더”
  • Latin: “Coxida”
  • Latin: “Coxyda”
  • Latvian: “Kokseide”
  • Latvian: “Koksijde”
  • Limburgan: “Koksijde”
  • Lithuanian: “Koksijdė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Coxyde”
  • Luxembourgish: “Koksijde”
  • Moksha: “Коксэйдэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Koksijde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koksijde”
  • Norwegian: “Koksijde”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Coxyde”
  • Persian: “کوکسیژد”
  • Polish: “Koksijde”
  • Portuguese: “Koksijde”
  • Romanian: “Coxyde”
  • Romanian: “Koksijde”
  • Russian: “Коксейде”
  • Russian: “Коксийде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Koksijde”
  • Slovak: “Koksijde”
  • Slovenian: “Coxyde”
  • Slovenian: “Koksijde”
  • Spanish: “Koksijde”
  • Swedish: “Koksijde”
  • Turkish: “Coxijde”
  • Turkish: “Coxyde”
  • Turkish: “Koksijde”
  • Ukrainian: “Коксейде”
  • Vietnamese: “Koksijde”
  • Vlaams: “Koksiede”
  • Vlaams: “Koksijde”
  • Vlaams: “Koksyde”
  • Volapük: “Coxyde”
  • Volapük: “Koksijde”
  • Walloon: “Koksijde”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Koksijde”
  • Western Frisian: “Koksijde”
  • Zeeuws: “Koksijde”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Koksijde”. Photo: MJJR, CC BY 2.5.