Bruges
Bruges is a picturesque city in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. Once Europe's richest city, now both cosmopolitan and bourgeois in its compact size.Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: City with 118,000 residents
- Description: city in West Flanders, Belgium
- Postal code: 8000
- Neighbors: Damme and Knokke-Heist
Notable Places in the Area
Belfry
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Belfry of Bruges is a medieval bell tower in the centre of Bruges, Belgium.
Groeningemuseum
Photo: Le Fou, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey.
City Hall
Photo: MJJR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The City Hall of Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium, is a landmark building and the seat of that city.
Localities in the Area
Sint-Pieters
Photo: MJJR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sint-Pieters is a suburb of Bruges, in the province of West Flanders, Belgium.
Sint-Jozef
Sint-Jozef is a quarter in Bruges, which is the capital of the Flemish province of West Flanders, in Belgium.Bruges
- Categories: big city, Belgian municipality with the title of city, municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.2086° or 51° 12' 31" northLongitude
3.2268° or 3° 13' 36" eastPopulation
118,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE BGSOpen Location Code
9F35665G+CPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1651558422OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2800931Wikidata ID
Q12994Bruges Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Brugge
- Akan: Bruges
- Arabic: Bruges
- Arabic: بروج
- Aragonese: Bruches
- Armenian: Բռյուգե
- Armenian: Բրյուգգե
- Armenian: Պրիւժ
- Asturian: Bruxes
- Azerbaijani: Brügge
- Balinese: Brugge
- Basque: Brujas
- Belarusian: Бруге
- Belarusian: Бругэ
- Bengali: ব্রুজস
- Bosnian: Briž
- Bosnian: Brugge
- Breton: Brugge
- Bulgarian: Брюге
- Catalan: Bruges
- Catalan: Brugge
- Cebuano: Bruges (lungsod sa Belhika)
- Cebuano: Bruges
- Cebuano: Brugge
- Chinese: 布吕赫
- Chinese: 布呂赫
- Chinese: 布魯日
- Chinese: 布鲁日
- Croatian: Brugge
- Czech: Brugge
- Czech: Bruggy
- Danish: Brugge
- Danish: Brügge
- Dutch: Brugge
- Dutch: Stad Brugge
- Egyptian Arabic: بروج
- English: Brugge
- Esperanto: Bruĝo
- Estonian: Brugge
- Extremaduran: Brujas
- Finnish: Brugge
- French: Bruges
- French: Brugge
- Galician: Brugge
- Galician: Bruxas
- Georgian: ბრიუგე
- German: Bruges
- German: Brugge
- German: Brügge
- German: Venedig des Nordens
- Greek: Βρύγη
- Greek: Μπριζ
- Greek: Μπρυζ
- Gujarati: બ્રુગેસ
- Hebrew: ברוז'
- Hebrew: ברוז
- Hindi: ब्रुग्ज
- Hindi: ब्रूज
- Hungarian: Brugge
- Icelandic: Brugge
- Ido: Brugge
- Indonesian: Brugge
- Interlingua: Bruges
- Interlingue: Brugge
- Irish: Brugge
- Italian: Bruges
- Italian: Brugge
- Japanese: ブルッヘ
- Japanese: ブルージュ
- Kannada: ಬ್ರೂಜಸ್
- Kirghiz: Брюгге
- Korean: 브뤼허
- Latin: Brugae
- Latvian: Brige
- Limburgan: Brugge
- Limburgan: Brögge
- Lithuanian: Briugė
- Low German: Brügge
- Luxembourgish: Bruges
- Macedonian: Бриж
- Macedonian: Брухе
- Malay: Brugge
- Maltese: Bruges
- Maltese: Brugge
- Marathi: ब्रूज
- Northern Frisian: Brügge
- Norwegian: Brugge
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bruges
- Norwegian Bokmål: Brugge
- Norwegian Bokmål: Brügge
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Brugge
- Occitan (post 1500): Brujas
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bricg
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Brycg (burh)
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Brycg
- Ossetian: Брюгге
- Persian: بروخه
- Persian: بروژ
- Picard: Brudje
- Polish: Brugge
- Polish: Brugia
- Portuguese: Bruges
- Romanian: Bruges
- Romanian: Brugges
- Russian: Брюгге
- Scots: Bruges
- Serbian: Бриж
- Serbo-Croatian: Brugge
- Silesian: Brugge
- Sinhala: බ්රුගස්
- Slovak: Bruggy
- Slovenian: Brugge
- Spanish: Brujas
- Swahili: Brugge
- Swedish: Brygge
- Tagalog: Brugge
- Tagalog: Brujas
- Tamil: ப்ருக்ஸ்
- Tatar: Брүгге
- Telugu: బ్రుగేస్
- Thai: บรูช
- Turkish: Bruges
- Turkish: Brugge
- Turkish: Brügge
- Turkish: Venedig des Nordens
- Ukrainian: Брюгге
- Urdu: بروج
- Urdu: بروخے
- Uzbek: Brugge
- Uzbek: Bryugge
- Venetian: Bruges (Fiandre)
- Venetian: Bruges
- Venetian: Bruza
- Vietnamese: Brugge
- Vlaams: Brugge
- Vlaams: Bruhhe
- Volapük: Brugge
- Walloon: Brudje
- Waray (Philippines): Bruges
- Welsh: Brugge
- Western Armenian: Պրիւժ
- Western Frisian: Brugge
- Western Panjabi: برویز
- Wu Chinese: 布鲁日
- Yue Chinese: 布魯日
- Zeeuws: Brugge
- 布鲁日历史中心
Other Places Named Bruges
In the Area
- MagdalenakwartierQuarter
- LangestraatkwartierQuarter
- Onze-Lieve-VrouwekwartierQuarter
- EzelstraatkwartierQuarter
- Sint-AnnakwartierQuarter
- West-BruggekwartierQuarter
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