Lier
Lier is a city of about 36,000 inhabitants in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. Lier is often overlooked by many international tourists, but can make an interesting day out from Antwerp or Mechelen.- Type: Town with 34,400 residents
- Description: city in Antwerp province, Belgium
- Also known as: “12021”, “Lier (Belge)”, “Lier (Belgia)”, “Lier (Belgía)”, “Lier (Bélgica)”, “Lier (Belgie)”, “Lier (Belgika)”, “Lier (Belgio)”, “Lier, Belgium”, “Lierre (Belgica)”, “Λιρ (πόλη)”, “Лир (Бельгия)”, “Лір (Бельгія)”, “ליר (עיר)”, “لیر (بلژیک)”, and “リール (ベルギー)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Zimmer tower and Herman Vanderpoortenstadion.
Herman Vanderpoortenstadion
Stadium
Herman Vanderpoortenstadion, also called Het Lisp, is a multi-use stadium in Lier, Belgium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kessel and Emblem.
Kessel
Village
Kessel is a town in the municipality of Nijlen in the province of Antwerp in Belgium. Kessel is situated 4½ km east of Lier.
Lier
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Mechelen, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.1311° or 51° 7′ 52″ north
Longitude
4.5697° or 4° 34′ 11″ east
Population
34,400
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
9F364HJ9+CV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Lier” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لير (بلجيكا)”
- Armenian: “Լիր”
- Basque: “Lier”
- Belarusian: “Лір”
- Breton: “Lier”
- Bulgarian: “Лийр”
- Catalan: “Lier”
- Cebuano: “Lier (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Lier”
- Chinese: “利尔”
- Chinese: “利爾”
- Czech: “Lier”
- Danish: “Lier”
- Dutch: “Lier”
- Esperanto: “Lier”
- Estonian: “Lier”
- Finnish: “Lier”
- Finnish: “Lierre”
- French: “Lier”
- French: “Lierre”
- German: “Lier”
- Greek: “Λιρ”
- Hebrew: “ליר”
- Hungarian: “Lier”
- Icelandic: “Lier”
- Irish: “Lier”
- Italian: “Lier”
- Italian: “Lierre”
- Japanese: “リール”
- Korean: “리르”
- Latin: “Lira”
- Latvian: “Lire”
- Lithuanian: “Lyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Lier”
- Macedonian: “Лир”
- Neapolitan: “Lier”
- Northern Frisian: “Lier (Belgien)”
- Northern Frisian: “Lier”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lier”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lier i Belgia”
- Norwegian: “Lier”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lierre”
- Persian: “لیر”
- Polish: “Lier”
- Portuguese: “Lier”
- Romanian: “Lier”
- Russian: “Лир”
- Serbian: “Лир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lier, Belgija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lier”
- Silesian: “Lier (Belgijo)”
- Silesian: “Lier”
- Slovak: “Lier”
- Slovenian: “Lier”
- Spanish: “Lier”
- Swahili: “Lier”
- Swedish: “Lier, Belgien”
- Swedish: “Lier”
- Turkish: “Lier, Belçika”
- Turkish: “Lier”
- Ukrainian: “Лір”
- Urdu: “لیئر، بیلجیم”
- Vietnamese: “Lier, Antwerpen”
- Vietnamese: “Lier”
- Vlaams: “Lier”
- Volapük: “Lier”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lier, Belhika”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lier”
- Welsh: “Lier”
- Zeeuws: “Lier”
- “Lier”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bogerse Velden and Zaat.
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