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Flemish Brabant
Arrondissement Halle-Vilvoorde

Vilvoorde

Vilvoorde is a city of 44,000 inhabitants in the province of in . Lying just north of , the town functions more as a suburb of the national capital, having some regional importance due to its high schools and hospitals.
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  • Type: Town with 44,700 residents
  • Description: city in Flemish Brabant, Belgium
  • Also known as: “23088”, “Vilvorde”, and “Vilvorde-lez-Bruxelles”
  • Historically known as: “Filford”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vilvoorde railway station and Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Vilvoorde, , Belgium. The station opened on 5 May 1835 on the country's first railway, from to ; later to become railway lines 25 and 27.

Church
The Basilik du Kerk, simply known as the Troostkerk, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Vilvoorde, . The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title of Our Lady of Consolation.

Church
Photo: Wim Bladt, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grimbergen and Verbrande Brug.

Photo: GVR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town of 37,000 inhabitants in , , just north of . The town is known for its abbey, castles and abbey beer.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Vilvoorde

Latitude
50.9287° or 50° 55′ 43″ north
Longitude
4.4231° or 4° 25′ 23″ east
Population
44,700
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
9F26WCHF+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1677252814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2784605
Wiki­data ID
Q318418
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Vilvoorde” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vilvoorde”
  • Arabic: “فيلفورد”
  • Asturian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vilvorde”
  • Basque: “Vilvoorde”
  • Belarusian: “Вілвардэ”
  • Breton: “Vilvoorde”
  • Bulgarian: “Вилворде”
  • Catalan: “Vilvoorde”
  • Cebuano: “Vilvoorde”
  • Cebuano: “Vilvorde”
  • Chinese: “維爾福德”
  • Chinese: “维尔福德”
  • Czech: “Vilvoorde”
  • Danish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Dutch: “Vilvoorde”
  • Esperanto: “Vilvoorde”
  • French: “Vilvoorde”
  • French: “Vilvorde-lez-Bruxelles”
  • French: “Vilvorde”
  • Georgian: “ვილვორდე”
  • German: “Vilvoorde”
  • Greek: “Βιλβόρντ”
  • Greek: “Βίλβορντε”
  • Hebrew: “וילוורדה”
  • Hungarian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Indonesian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Irish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Italian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Italian: “Vilvorde”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルヴォールデ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルヴォールド”
  • Japanese: “ビルボールデ”
  • Japanese: “ビルボールド”
  • Japanese: “フィルフォールデ”
  • Japanese: “フィルフォールド”
  • Latin: “Bilefurte”
  • Latin: “Filfordia”
  • Latin: “Filfurdo”
  • Latin: “Vilvordia”
  • Latvian: “Vilvorde”
  • Limburgan: “Vilvoorde”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilvordė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vilvoorde”
  • Norwegian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vilvoorde”
  • Persian: “ویلوورد”
  • Polish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Portuguese: “Vilvoorde”
  • Romanian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Russian: “Вилворде”
  • Serbian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Serbian: “Vilvorde”
  • Serbian: “Вилворде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Silesian: “Vilvorde”
  • Slovak: “Vilvoorde”
  • Slovenian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Spanish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Spanish: “Vilvorde”
  • Swahili: “Vilvoorde”
  • Swedish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Tatar: “Вилворде”
  • Turkish: “Filford”
  • Turkish: “Vilvoorde”
  • Turkish: “Vilvorde-lez-Bruxelles”
  • Turkish: “Vilvordia”
  • Ukrainian: “Вілворде”
  • Vietnamese: “Vilvoorde”
  • Vlaams: “Vilvoorde”
  • Vlaams: “Vilvôorde”
  • Volapük: “Vilvoorde”
  • Walloon: “Vilvôr”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vilvoorde”
  • Welsh: “Vilvoorde”
  • Western Frisian: “Filfoarde”
  • Western Frisian: “Vilvoorde”
  • Zeeuws: “Vilvoorde”
  • Zeeuws: “Vilvoôrde”
  • “Vilvoorde”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vilvoorde”. Photo: Wim Bladt, CC BY-SA 3.0.