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West Flanders
Arrondissement of Kortrijk

Kortrijk

Kortrijk is a city in , the northern part of . It is the capital and biggest city of the arrondissement of Kortrijk, which has about 285,000 inhabitants.
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  • Type: City with 77,100 residents
  • Description: municipality in West Flanders, Belgium
  • Also known as: “34022”, “Courtrai”, “Courtrais”, and “Courtray”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guldensporen Stadion and Kortrijk railway station.

Stadium
Photo: KSKB1935, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in Kortrijk, Belgium. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of K.V. Kortrijk.

Railway station
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is the main railway station in Kortrijk, , Belgium. The station was first inaugurated on 22 September 1839. With around 10,000 passengers per day, Kortrijk is the fifteenth-busiest railway station in Belgium, and the second in West Flanders.

Protected area
Photo: Lamadude, Public domain.
is a protected area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kuurne and Heule.

Town
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is a municipality located in the province of . The municipality comprises only the town of proper. On January 1, 2006, had a total population of 12,591.

Village
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is a submunicipality of the city of Kortrijk in the Belgian province of . The first notion of this settlement date of the year 1111.

Village
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is a sub-municipality of the city of Kortrijk, . It is part of the urban area of this city. As of 2020 it had a population of 5,283. It also has a railway station, with trains to leper, Kortrijk, Dendermonde, Sint-Niklaas and Brussels.

Kortrijk

Latitude
50.8276° or 50° 49′ 40″ north
Longitude
3.266° or 3° 15′ 58″ east
Population
77,100
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
9F25R7H8+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5458266808
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2794056
Wiki­data ID
Q12995
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kortrijk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kortrijk”
  • Arabic: “كورتريك”
  • Aragonese: “Contrai”
  • Armenian: “Կորտրեյկ”
  • Asturian: “Cortrique”
  • Asturian: “Kortrijk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kortreyk”
  • Basque: “Kortrijk”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Кортрэйк”
  • Belarusian: “Кортрэйк”
  • Bosnian: “Kortrijk”
  • Breton: “Kortrijk”
  • Bulgarian: “Кортрейк”
  • Catalan: “Cortrai”
  • Catalan: “Kortrijk”
  • Cebuano: “Kortrijk”
  • Chinese: “哥積克”
  • Chinese: “科特赖克”
  • Croatian: “Kortrijk”
  • Czech: “Kortrijk”
  • Danish: “Kortrijk”
  • Dutch: “Kortrijk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كورتريك”
  • Esperanto: “Kortrejko”
  • Estonian: “Kortrijk”
  • Finnish: “Kortrijk”
  • French: “Courtrai”
  • Galician: “Courtrai”
  • German: “Courtrai”
  • German: “Kortrijk”
  • Greek: “Κόρτρεϊκ”
  • Hebrew: “קורטרייק”
  • Hindi: “कॉर्ट्रीक”
  • Hungarian: “Kortrijk”
  • Icelandic: “Kortrijk”
  • Ido: “Kortrijk”
  • Indonesian: “Kortrijk”
  • Irish: “Kortrijk”
  • Italian: “Courtrai”
  • Italian: “Kortrijk”
  • Japanese: “コルトレイク”
  • Kirghiz: “Кортрейк”
  • Korean: “코르트레이크”
  • Latin: “Corteriacum”
  • Latin: “Cortoracum”
  • Latin: “Cortoriacum”
  • Latin: “Cortracum”
  • Latin: “Curtracum”
  • Latvian: “Kortreika”
  • Limburgan: “Kortrijk”
  • Lithuanian: “Kortreikas”
  • Lombard: “Courtrai”
  • Low German: “Kortrijk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Courtrai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kortrijk”
  • Macedonian: “Кортрајк”
  • Macedonian: “Кортрејк”
  • Malagasy: “Kortrijk”
  • Malay: “Kortrijk”
  • Moksha: “Кортрэйк”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kortrijk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kortrijk”
  • Norwegian: “Kortrijk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cortrai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Courtrai”
  • Persian: “کورتریک”
  • Polish: “Kortrijk”
  • Portuguese: “Courtrai”
  • Portuguese: “Kortrijk”
  • Romanian: “Kortrijk”
  • Russian: “Кортрейк”
  • Scots: “Kortrijk”
  • Serbian: “Кортрајк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kortrijk”
  • Silesian: “Kortrijk”
  • Slovak: “Kortrijk”
  • Slovenian: “Kortrijk”
  • Spanish: “Cortrique”
  • Spanish: “Courtrai”
  • Spanish: “Kortrijk”
  • Swahili: “Kortrijk”
  • Swedish: “Kortrijk”
  • Tatar: “Кортрейк”
  • Thai: “คอร์ทไรค์”
  • Turkish: “Courtrai”
  • Turkish: “Kortrijk”
  • Ukrainian: “Кортрейк”
  • Urdu: “کورٹریک”
  • Vietnamese: “Courtrai”
  • Vietnamese: “Kortrijk”
  • Vlaams: “Kortrik”
  • Vlaams: “Kortryk”
  • Volapük: “Kortrijk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kortrijk”
  • Welsh: “Kortrijk”
  • Western Frisian: “Kortrijk”
  • Western Frisian: “Kortrik”
  • Wu Chinese: “科特赖克”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥積克”
  • Zeeuws: “Kortriek”
  • “Kortrijk”

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