Flanders
West Flanders
Arrondissement of Ostend

Ostend

Ostend is a seaside city of 70,000 inhabitants in in . Its North Sea beaches have drawn in tourists since the 19th century when it was a fashionable outing for royalty and aristocracy.
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  • Type: City with 71,600 residents
  • Description: coastal city in West Flanders, Belgium
  • Also known as: “35013”, “Oostende”, and “Ostende”
  • Postal code: 8400

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oostende Railway Station and Mercator.

Railway station
Photo: Japplemedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in Ostend, , Belgium. It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium.

Museum
Photo: John Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus , a Belgian cartographer.

Museum
Photo: Wasily, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a museum in Ostend, Belgium, specializing in Belgian art from 1830 onwards. It was created in 2008 by the fusion of the former Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst and the Museum voor Schone Kunsten Oostende, both located in Ostend.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bredene and Mariakerke.

Town
Photo: Zeemeeuw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality located in the province of . The municipality only comprises the town of proper. On 1 January 2006, had a total population of 15,118.

Hamlet
is a seaside resort in the province of . Previously a village of its own just to the west of Ostend, it now forms part of that town. has about 17,485 inhabitants as of 2024.

Ostend

Latitude
51.2259° or 51° 13′ 33″ north
Longitude
2.9195° or 2° 55′ 10″ east
Population
71,600
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
9F346WG9+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1651555409
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2789788
Wiki­data ID
Q12996
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Ostend” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oostende”
  • Arabic: “أوستند”
  • Armenian: “Օստենդե”
  • Asturian: “Oostende”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ostende”
  • Basque: “Ostende”
  • Belarusian: “Астэндэ”
  • Belarusian: “Оостэндэ”
  • Breton: “Oostende”
  • Bulgarian: “Остенде”
  • Catalan: “Oostende”
  • Cebuano: “Oostende”
  • Cebuano: “Ostend”
  • Chechen: “Остенде”
  • Chinese: “奥斯坦德”
  • Chinese: “奧斯坦德”
  • Czech: “Ostende”
  • Danish: “Oostende”
  • Dutch: “Koningin der Badsteden”
  • Dutch: “Oostende”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوستند”
  • Esperanto: “Ostendo”
  • Estonian: “Oostende”
  • Finnish: “Oostende”
  • Finnish: “Ostend”
  • Finnish: “Ostende”
  • French: “Ostende”
  • Galician: “Oostende”
  • Galician: “Ostende”
  • German: “Oostende”
  • German: “Ostende”
  • Greek: “Οστένδη”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטנדה”
  • Hungarian: “Oostende”
  • Hungarian: “Ostende”
  • Icelandic: “Oostende”
  • Indonesian: “Oostende”
  • Irish: “Oostende”
  • Irish: “Ostainn”
  • Italian: “Oostende”
  • Italian: “Ostenda”
  • Italian: “Ostende”
  • Japanese: “オーステンデ”
  • Japanese: “オステンデ”
  • Korean: “오스텐더”
  • Latin: “Ostenda”
  • Latin: “Ostium”
  • Latvian: “Ostende”
  • Limburgan: “Oostende”
  • Lithuanian: “Ostendė”
  • Lombard: “Oostende”
  • Low German: “Oostenn”
  • Luxembourgish: “Oostende”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ostende”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Oostende”
  • Macedonian: “Остенде”
  • Malay: “Oostende”
  • Moksha: “Остэндэ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oostende”
  • Norwegian: “Oostende”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ostende”
  • Persian: “اوستنده”
  • Polish: “Ostenda”
  • Portuguese: “Oostende”
  • Romanian: “Oostende”
  • Russian: “Остенде”
  • Scots: “Ostend”
  • Serbian: “Остенде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostende”
  • Silesian: “Ostende”
  • Slovak: “Oostende”
  • Slovak: “Ostende”
  • Slovenian: “Ostend”
  • Spanish: “Ostende”
  • Swahili: “Oostende”
  • Swedish: “Oostende”
  • Swedish: “Ostend”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸ்டெண்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Остенде”
  • Turkish: “Oostende”
  • Turkish: “Ostende”
  • Ukrainian: “Остенде”
  • Urdu: “اوسٹینڈ”
  • Urdu: “اوسٹینڈے”
  • Uzbek: “Ostend”
  • Vietnamese: “Oostende”
  • Vietnamese: “Ostend”
  • Vlaams: “Ostende”
  • Volapük: “Oostende”
  • Walloon: “Ostinde”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ostend”
  • Welsh: “Oostende”
  • Western Frisian: “Oostende”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥斯坦德”
  • Zeeuws: “Oôstende”

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