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| Kortrijk |
Population : 75,219.
Location: Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium.
Area: 80.02 km2(30.90 sq mi).
Kortrijk is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West
Flanders. It is the capital and biggest city of the arrondissement of Kortrijk,
which is both a judicial and an administrative arrondissement. The wider
municipality comprises the city of Kortrijk proper and the villages of Aalbeke,
Bellegem, Bissegem, Heule, Kooigem, Marke, and Rollegem. Kortrijk is part of
the cross-border Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai (metropolitan area),
which had 2,155,161 residents in 2008.
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| Kortrijk |
The city is situated on the Leie, 42 km (26
mi) southwest of Ghent and 25 km (16 mi) northeast of Lille in France. Both
Kortrijk and Lille are part of the same transnational Eurodistrict urban area
with around 1,900,000 inhabitants. As the biggest city of southern West
Flanders, Kortrijk has many schools, hospitals and shopping streets.
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