Ypres
Ypres is a friendly town of 35,000 inhabitants in Flanders endowed with wonderful architecture and a troubled past. Ypres is best known as the site of three major battles of the First World War, the most famous being the Battle of Passchendaele from July to November 1917.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include In Flanders Fields Museum and Saint Martin’s Church.
In Flanders Fields Museum
Museum
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The In Flanders Fields Museum is a museum in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the study of the First World War. It occupies the second floor of the Cloth Hall on the market square in the city centre.
Saint Martin’s Church
Church
St Martin's Church, also called St Martin's Cathedral, is a church and former cathedral in the Belgian city of Ypres. It was a cathedral and the seat of the former diocese of Ypres from 1561 to 1801, and is still commonly referred to as such.
Ieper railway station
Railway station
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Ieper railway station is a railway station in Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium. The station was opened in 1854, during the reign of King Leopold I. It is located on railway line 69 from Kortrijk to Poperinge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zillebeke and Voormezele.
Zillebeke
Village
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Zillebeke is a village in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. It is a former municipality which is now part of Ypres.
Voormezele
Village
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Voormezele is a village, which is situated 4 km south of Ypres.
Vlamertinge
Village
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Vlamertinge is a village in the Belgian province of West Flanders and a borough of the city of Ypres. The village centre of Vlamertinge lies just outside the city centre of Ypres, along the main road N38 to the nearby town of Poperinge. Vlamertinge is situated 4½ km west of Ypres.
Ypres
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Ypres, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.8522° or 50° 51′ 8″ northLongitude
2.8846° or 2° 53′ 5″ eastPopulation
35,100Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE IPROpen location code
9F24VV2M+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 1637737203OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Ypres” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ieper”
- Arabic: “يبر”
- Armenian: “Իպր”
- Basque: “legenardun”
- Basque: “soraio”
- Basque: “Ypres”
- Belarusian: “Іпр”
- Breton: “Ieper”
- Breton: “Ypres”
- Bulgarian: “Ипер”
- Bulgarian: “Ипр”
- Bulgarian: “Ипър”
- Catalan: “Ieper”
- Catalan: “Ypres”
- Cebuano: “Ieper (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Ieper”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیپر”
- Chinese: “伊佩尔”
- Chinese: “伊佩爾”
- Chinese: “伊普尔”
- Chinese: “伊珀尔”
- Chinese: “伊珀爾”
- Croatian: “Ypres”
- Czech: “Yper”
- Czech: “Ypres”
- Czech: “Ypry”
- Danish: “Ieper”
- Danish: “Ypres”
- Dutch: “Ieper”
- Dutch: “Ieperen”
- Dutch: “Ypres”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يبر”
- Esperanto: “Ieper”
- Esperanto: “Ipro”
- Estonian: “Ieper”
- Estonian: “Ieperi vald”
- Estonian: “Ypern”
- Estonian: “Ypres”
- Finnish: “Ieper”
- Finnish: “Ypres”
- French: “Ieper”
- French: “Leper”
- French: “Ypres”
- Galician: “Ieper”
- Galician: “Ypres”
- German: “Elverdinge”
- German: “Ieper”
- German: “Vlamertinge”
- German: “Ypern”
- Greek: “Ιπρ”
- Greek: “Υπρ”
- Hebrew: “איפר”
- Hebrew: “ייפר”
- Hungarian: “Ypres”
- Ido: “Ypres”
- Indonesian: “Ieper”
- Irish: “Ypres”
- Italian: “Ieper”
- Italian: “Ypres”
- Japanese: “イープル”
- Japanese: “イーペル”
- Kirghiz: “Ипр”
- Korean: “이퍼르”
- Latin: “Hypera”
- Latin: “Hyprae”
- Latin: “Ieper”
- Latin: “Iprae”
- Latin: “Ipretum”
- Latin: “Ypera”
- Latin: “Ypra”
- Latin: “Ypres”
- Latin: “Ypretum”
- Latvian: “Ipra”
- Limburgan: “Ieper”
- Lithuanian: “Ipras”
- Lithuanian: “Ypras”
- Lombard: “Ieper”
- Lombard: “Ypres”
- Low German: “Ieper”
- Low German: “Ypern”
- Luxembourgish: “Ieper”
- Macedonian: “Ипер”
- Macedonian: “Иперн”
- Macedonian: “Ипр”
- Malay: “Ieper”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ieper”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ypres”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ieper”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ypern”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ypres”
- Norwegian: “Ieper”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ypres”
- Persian: “ایپر”
- Polish: “Ieper”
- Polish: “Ypres”
- Portuguese: “Ieper”
- Portuguese: “Ypres”
- Romanian: “Ypres”
- Russian: “Иперн”
- Russian: “Ипр”
- Serbian: “Ieper”
- Serbian: “Ipr”
- Serbian: “Ypern”
- Serbian: “Иперн”
- Serbian: “Ипр”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ypres”
- Sicilian: “Ieper”
- Sicilian: “Ypres”
- Slovak: “Ieper”
- Slovenian: “Ieper”
- Spanish: “Ieper”
- Spanish: “Ypres”
- Swahili: “Ieper”
- Swahili: “Ypres”
- Swedish: “Ieper”
- Swedish: “Yperen”
- Swedish: “Ypern”
- Swedish: “Ypres”
- Swiss German: “Ypern”
- Tatar: “Ипр”
- Thai: “อิพร์”
- Thai: “อีเปอร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ypern”
- Turkish: “Ieper”
- Turkish: “Yperen”
- Turkish: “Ypern”
- Turkish: “Ypres”
- Ukrainian: “Іпр”
- Urdu: “یپریس”
- Uzbek: “Ipr”
- Vietnamese: “Ypres”
- Vlaams: “Ieper”
- Vlaams: “Iper”
- Vlaams: “Ipper”
- Vlaams: “Ippr”
- Vlaams: “Ipr”
- Vlaams: “Yper”
- Volapük: “Ieper”
- Volapük: “Ypres”
- Walloon: “Îper”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ypres”
- Welsh: “Ieper”
- Welsh: “Ypres”
- Western Frisian: “Ieper”
- Western Frisian: “Iper”
- Western Frisian: “Yper”
- Wu Chinese: “伊珀尔”
- Zeeuws: “Ieper”
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