Flanders
Flemish Brabant
Arrondissement of Leuven

Tervuren

Tervuren is a municipality in on the outskirts of the vast Sonian Forest, south-west of . It is best known as the host town of the Belgian king's summer residence, which is now the Museum for Central Africa, and for the beautiful park surrounding it.
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  • Type: Town with 20,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium
  • Also known as: “24104”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Museum for Central Africa and Tervuren Castle.

Museum
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , communicating under the name AfricaMuseum since 2018, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in , Belgium, just outside .

Archaeological site
was a moated castle constructed by the dukes of Brabant, which later became a royal residence and hunting lodge for the governors of the Habsburg Netherlands.

Historic building
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The or Palace of Africa is a neoclassical palace in Tervuren in , Belgium, just outside . It was originally built in 1897 by order of King Leopold II to house the colonial section of the 1897 International Exposition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Duisburg and Vossem.

Village
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is a village in , . It should not be confused with the German city of . is a part of the municipality of Tervuren that comprises the villages of , Tervuren, and .

Village
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is a sub urban residential area in the municipality of Tervuren, in , 15 km from . It is located in the valley of the Voer creek. is situated 3½ km east of Tervuren.

Locality
Quatre Bras is a crossroads in Tervuren, Belgium, between the Avenue de Tervueren and the Brussels outer ring road. It is a key location for vehicle traffic around .

Tervuren

Latitude
50.8242° or 50° 49′ 27″ north
Longitude
4.5139° or 4° 30′ 50″ east
Population
20,800
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
Open location code
9F26RGF7+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254400196
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2785623
Wiki­data ID
Q456544
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Tervuren” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tervuren”
  • Arabic: “ترفورين”
  • Basque: “Tervuren”
  • Belarusian: “Тэрвюрэн”
  • Breton: “Tervuren”
  • Bulgarian: “Тервьорен”
  • Catalan: “Tervuren”
  • Cebuano: “Tervuren (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Tervuren”
  • Chinese: “Tervueren”
  • Chinese: “Tervuren”
  • Chinese: “泰尔菲伦”
  • Chinese: “泰爾菲倫”
  • Czech: “Tervuren”
  • Danish: “Tervuren”
  • Dutch: “Terveuren”
  • Dutch: “Tervuren”
  • Esperanto: “Tervuren”
  • Finnish: “Tervuren”
  • French: “Tervueren”
  • French: “Tervuren”
  • Galician: “Tervuren”
  • German: “Musée Royal du Congo belge”
  • German: “Tervuren”
  • Hebrew: “טרבורן”
  • Hungarian: “Tervuren”
  • Indonesian: “Tervuren”
  • Irish: “Tervuren”
  • Italian: “Tervuren”
  • Japanese: “テルヴューレン”
  • Japanese: “テルビュレン”
  • Latin: “Fura Ducis”
  • Latin: “Fura”
  • Latin: “Tervuren”
  • Lithuanian: “Tervurenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tervueren”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tervuren”
  • Macedonian: “Тервирен”
  • Macedonian: “Тервурен”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tervuren”
  • Norwegian: “Tervuren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tervuren”
  • Persian: “ترووران”
  • Polish: “Tervuren”
  • Portuguese: “Tervuren”
  • Romanian: “Tervuren”
  • Russian: “Тервурен”
  • Russian: “Тервюрен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tervuren”
  • Slovak: “Tervuren”
  • Slovenian: “Tervuren”
  • Spanish: “Tervuren”
  • Swedish: “Tervuren”
  • Turkish: “Terveuren”
  • Turkish: “Tervuren”
  • Ukrainian: “Тервюрен”
  • Vietnamese: “Tervuren”
  • Vlaams: “Tervuren”
  • Vlaams: “Tervuurn”
  • Volapük: “Tervuren”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tervuren”
  • Welsh: “Tervuren”
  • Zeeuws: “Tervuren”
  • “Tervuren”

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