Waterloo
Waterloo is a historic town in the Walloon province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium. The town is known mainly for the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 where Napoleon Bonaparte went down to his final defeat, leading to his second exile on Saint Helena.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 29,600 residents
- Description: municipality in Wallonia, Belgium
- Also known as: “Waterlô” and “Waterloo, Belgium”
- Postal code: 1410
Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waterloo railway station and Church of Saint Joseph.
Waterloo railway station
Railway station
Photo: Daniels, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waterloo railway station is a railway station in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 1 February 1874 and is located on railway line 124.
Church of Saint Joseph
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Church of St. Joseph is an 18th-century church in Waterloo, Belgium, dedicated to Saint Joseph.
St. John’s International School
School
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
St. John's International School is an international school located in Waterloo, Belgium. It provides education from day-care to 12th grade, the last year of high school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braine-l’Alleud.
Braine-l’Alleud
Town
Photo: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Braine-l'Alleud is a municipality of Wallonia, in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, about 20 kilometres south of Brussels. The municipality consists of the following districts: Braine-l'Alleud, Lillois-Witterzée, and Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. Braine-l’Alleud is situated 4½ km southwest of Waterloo.
Waterloo
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7175° or 50° 43′ 3″ northLongitude
4.3978° or 4° 23′ 52″ eastPopulation
29,600Elevation
119 metres (390 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE WALOpen location code
9F26P99X+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 130692807OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Waterloo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waterloo, België”
- Afrikaans: “Waterloo”
- Arabic: “واترلو”
- Armenian: “Վաթեռլոո”
- Armenian: “Վաթերլոո”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaterloo”
- Basque: “Waterloo”
- Belarusian: “Ватэрлоа”
- Bengali: “ওয়াটারলু, বেলজিয়াম”
- Bengali: “ওয়াটারলু”
- Bosnian: “Waterloo”
- Breton: “Waterloo”
- Bulgarian: “Ватерло”
- Bulgarian: “Ватерлоо”
- Catalan: “Waterloo”
- Cebuano: “Waterloo (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Waterloo”
- Chinese: “滑铁卢”
- Chinese: “滑鐵盧”
- Chinese: “瓦特尔洛”
- Chinese: “瓦特爾洛”
- Chinese: “窩打老”
- Croatian: “Waterloo”
- Czech: “Waterlô”
- Czech: “Waterloo”
- Danish: “Waterloo”
- Dutch: “Waterloo (Belgie)”
- Dutch: “Waterloo (België)”
- Dutch: “Waterloo, België”
- Dutch: “Waterloo”
- Esperanto: “Waterloo”
- Finnish: “Waterloo”
- French: “Waterloo, Belgique”
- French: “Waterloo”
- Galician: “Waterloo”
- German: “Waterlô”
- German: “Waterloo”
- Greek: “Βατερλό”
- Greek: “Βατερλώ”
- Haitian: “Waterloo”
- Hebrew: “ווטרלו”
- Hebrew: “וטרלו”
- Hindi: “वाटरलू, बेल्जियम”
- Hindi: “वाटरलू”
- Hungarian: “Waterloo”
- Icelandic: “Waterloo”
- Indonesian: “Waterloo, Belgia”
- Indonesian: “Waterloo”
- Irish: “Waterloo”
- Italian: “Waterloo”
- Japanese: “ワーテルロー”
- Korean: “워털루”
- Latin: “Waterloum”
- Latvian: “Vaterlo”
- Lithuanian: “Vaterlo”
- Lombard: “Waterlô”
- Lombard: “Waterloo”
- Luxembourgish: “Waterloo”
- Malagasy: “Waterloo (Belzika)”
- Malagasy: “Waterloo”
- Marathi: “वॉटरलू (बेल्जियम)”
- Marathi: “वॉटरलू”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waterloo (Belgia)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waterloo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waterloo”
- Norwegian: “Waterloo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Waterloo”
- Persian: “واترلو”
- Polish: “Waterloo”
- Portuguese: “Waterloo”
- Romanian: “Waterloo”
- Russian: “Ватерлоо”
- Scots: “Waterloo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Waterloo”
- Serbian: “Vaterlo”
- Serbian: “Ватерло”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaterlo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waterloo”
- Slovak: “Waterloo”
- Slovenian: “Waterloo”
- Spanish: “Waterloo”
- Swedish: “Waterloo”
- Turkish: “Waterloo, Belçika”
- Turkish: “Waterloo”
- Ukrainian: “Ватерлоо”
- Urdu: “واٹرلو، بیلجئیم”
- Vietnamese: “Waterloo, Walloon Brabant”
- Vlaams: “Woaterloo”
- Volapük: “Waterloo”
- Walloon: “Waterlô”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waterloo, Belhika”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waterloo”
- Welsh: “Waterloo”
- Western Panjabi: “واٹرلو”
- Wu Chinese: “滑铁卢 (比利时)”
- Wu Chinese: “滑铁卢（比利时）”
- Yue Chinese: “窩打老”
- Zeeuws: “Waeterloo”
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