Schengen
Schengen is a village of 4,800 people in far south-eastern Luxembourg near the tripoint where the borders of Germany, France, and Luxembourg meet. Schengen is known because the Schengen Agreement, which abolished passport controls between most EU members, was signed here in 1985.
- Village with about 5,270 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 300 metres (990 feet)
- Description: commune in the canton of Remich, Luxembourg
- Postal codesL-5444L-5445L-5446
- Also known as“Commune of Schengen”“Schengen, Luxembourg”
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include European Museum Schengen and Apach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Perl and Remerschen.
Burmerange
Burmerange is a village in the canton of Remich, in south-eastern Luxembourg. Burmerange is situated 3½ km northwest of Schengen.
Schengen
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Latitude
49.4716° or 49° 28′ 18″ north
Longitude
6.3659° or 6° 21′ 57″ east
UN/LOCODE
LU SCH
Open location code
8FX8F9C8+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Schengen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Schengen”
- Arabic: “شينجن، لوكسمبرج”
- Arabic: “شينجن، لوكسمبرغ”
- Arabic: “شينجن”
- Armenian: “Շենգեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Şengen”
- Basque: “Schengen”
- Belarusian: “Шэнген”
- Bosnian: “Schengen”
- Bulgarian: “община Шенген”
- Bulgarian: “Шенген”
- Catalan: “Schengen”
- Cebuano: “Commune de Schengen”
- Cebuano: “Schengen”
- Chinese: “申根”
- Chinese: “神根”
- Croatian: “Schengen”
- Czech: “Schengen”
- Danish: “Schengen”
- Dutch: “Schengen (Luxemburg)”
- Dutch: “Schengen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شينجين”
- Esperanto: “Interkonsento de Schengen”
- Esperanto: “Schengen”
- Estonian: “Schengen”
- Finnish: “Schengen”
- French: “Commune de Schengen”
- French: “Schengen”
- Galician: “Convenio de Schengen”
- Galician: “Schengen, Luxemburgo”
- Georgian: “შენგენი”
- German: “Gemeinde Schengen”
- German: “Schengen”
- Greek: “Σένγκεν”
- Hebrew: “שנגן”
- Hungarian: “Schengen”
- Icelandic: “Schengen”
- Italian: “Schengen”
- Japanese: “Schengen”
- Japanese: “シェンゲン”
- Kinaray-A: “Schengen”
- Korean: “셍겐”
- Korean: “솅겐”
- Korean: “쉥겐”
- Latin: “Schengae”
- Latvian: “Šengena”
- Limburgan: “Schengen”
- Lithuanian: “Schengen”
- Lithuanian: “Šengenas”
- Low German: “Gemeen Schengen”
- Luxembourgish: “Gemeng Rëmerschen”
- Luxembourgish: “Gemeng Schengen”
- Luxembourgish: “Schengen”
- Macedonian: “Шенген”
- Malagasy: “Schengen”
- Malay: “Schengen, Luxembourg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schengen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schengen”
- Norwegian: “Schengen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Schengen”
- Ossetian: “Шенген”
- Persian: “شنگن لوکزامبورگ”
- Persian: “شنگن”
- Polish: “Schengen”
- Portuguese: “Schengen”
- Romanian: “Schengen, Luxemburg”
- Romanian: “Schengen”
- Russian: “Шенген”
- Serbian: “Schengen”
- Serbian: “Šengen”
- Serbian: “Шенген”
- Sinhala: “ෂෙන්ගන්, ලක්සම්බර්ග්”
- Sinhala: “ෂෙන්ගන්”
- Slovak: “Schengen”
- Slovenian: “Schengen”
- Spanish: “Schengen”
- Swahili: “Schengen”
- Swedish: “Schengen”
- Swiss German: “Schengen”
- Thai: “เชงเกน (ประเทศลักเซมเบิร์ก)”
- Thai: “เชงเกน”
- Turkish: “LU1206”
- Turkish: “Schengen”
- Udmurt: “Шенген”
- Ukrainian: “Шенген”
- Urdu: “شینگن، لکسمبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Schengen, Luxembourg”
- Uzbek: “Schengen”
- Vietnamese: “Schengen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schengen”
- Wu Chinese: “申根”
- Yue Chinese: “神根”
- Zeeuws: “Schengen”
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