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Louvain-la-Neuve

Louvain-la-Neuve is a modern town in the province of in the French-speaking part of . It was created in 1969 in order to host the French-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Louvain, which had just seceded from the Dutch-speaking faculties of the Catholic University of Leuven, and had to move from to .
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  • Type: Locality with 29,500 residents
  • Description: city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Also known as: “LLN” and “Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Louvain-la-Neuve)”
  • Postal code: 1348

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée Hergé and Musée L.

Museum
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The , or Hergé Museum, is a in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé, creator of the series of comic albums, The Adventures of Tintin.

Museum
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The or Musée universitaire de Louvain, French for: Louvain University Museum, is a Belgian university museum of the University of Louvain located in Louvain-la-Neuve, , Belgium.

Railway station
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and Mont-Saint-Guibert.

Town
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is a city and municipality of located in the . On January 1, 2006, had a total population of 29,521.

Village
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is a municipality of located in the province of . On January 1, 2012, had a total population of 7000.

Town
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is a municipality of located in the province of . On 1 January 2006 had a total population of 9,408.

Louvain-la-Neuve

Latitude
50.6683° or 50° 40′ 6″ north
Longitude
4.6144° or 4° 36′ 52″ east
Population
29,500
Elevation
117 metres (384 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE LLN
Open location code
9F26MJ97+8Q
Geo­Names ID
2792073
Wiki­data ID
Q665868
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Walloon—“Louvain-la-Neuve” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لوفان لا نوف”
  • Breton: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Catalan: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Cebuano: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Chinese: “新鲁汶”
  • Czech: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Czech: “Nová Lovaň”
  • Dutch: “LLN”
  • Dutch: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Dutch: “Nieuw-Leuven”
  • French: “LLN”
  • French: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • German: “LLN”
  • German: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • German: “Neu-Löwen”
  • Hebrew: “לוון החדשה”
  • Hebrew: “לוון לה נוו”
  • Indonesian: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Italian: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Japanese: “ルーヴァン＝ラ＝ヌーヴ”
  • Latin: “Lovanium Novum”
  • Latin: “Neo-Lovanium”
  • Latin: “Neolovanium”
  • Latin: “Novum Lovanium”
  • Luxembourgish: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Persian: “لوون لنوو”
  • Polish: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Portuguese: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Portuguese: “Lovaina-a-Nova”
  • Romanian: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Russian: “Лувен-ла-Нев”
  • Scots: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Slovenian: “LLN”
  • Slovenian: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Spanish: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Swedish: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Turkish: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Vietnamese: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Volapük: “Louvain-la-Neuve”
  • Walloon: “Li Noû Lovén”
  • Walloon: “Noû Lovin”

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