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Kraainem

Kraainem is a municipality on the outskirts of the Capital Region, administratively belonging to . It began as a rural village, but the expansion of Brussels has led to a fast-paced urbanization of Kraainem throughout the 20th century, and the municipality has become a popular residence for Eurocrats and expats alike.
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  • Type: Town with 12,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Crainhem”
  • Postal code: 1950
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe and Hof ter Musschen.

University
UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in , . The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmacy and…

Convention center
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is a convention center.

Community center
A is a concept created by the University of Louvain which consists of between six and twelve students sharing a "kot" and working together on a project.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zaventem and North-East.

Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the province of , in the Flemish region of . It is located in the Dijleland area, one of the three large recreational areas which together form the Groene Gordel around the .

The of is a residential and commercial district of 's capital, bordering to the south-west and to the south.

Town
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or Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual. is situated 3½ km southwest of Kraainem.

Kraainem

Latitude
50.861° or 50° 51′ 40″ north
Longitude
4.4663° or 4° 27′ 59″ east
Population
12,800
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE KRA
Open location code
9F26VF68+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 347083997
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2794016
Wiki­data ID
Q839023
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Kraainem” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Kraainem”
  • Breton: “Kraainem”
  • Bulgarian: “Крайнем”
  • Catalan: “Kraainem”
  • Cebuano: “Kraainem”
  • Chinese: “克拉伊內姆”
  • Chinese: “克拉伊内姆”
  • Chinese: “克赖内姆”
  • Dutch: “Crainhem”
  • Dutch: “Kraainem”
  • Esperanto: “Kraainem”
  • French: “Crainhem”
  • French: “Kraainem”
  • Galician: “Kraainem”
  • German: “Kraainem”
  • Hungarian: “Kraainem”
  • Irish: “Kraainem”
  • Italian: “Kraainem”
  • Lithuanian: “Krainemas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kraainem”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kraainem”
  • Norwegian: “Kraainem”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kraainem”
  • Persian: “کرنم”
  • Polish: “Kraainem”
  • Portuguese: “Crainhem”
  • Portuguese: “Kraainem”
  • Romanian: “Kraainem”
  • Russian: “Краайнем”
  • Russian: “Краинем”
  • Russian: “Крайнем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kraainem”
  • Slovak: “Kraainem”
  • Spanish: “Crainhem”
  • Spanish: “Kraainem”
  • Swedish: “Kraainem”
  • Turkish: “Kraainem”
  • Vietnamese: “Kraainem”
  • Volapük: “Kraainem”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kraainem”
  • Zeeuws: “Kraainem”
  • “Kraainem”

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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 “Kraainem”. Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 4.0.