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Diest

municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Organization municipality_of_belgium Q743236

Facts

29 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city[6]
Official website
www.diest.be[27]
Legal form
Cities and municipalities

Location

Country
Belgium[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 50.985°, 5.051°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Arrondissement of Leuven[2]
Postal code
4.0k (3.3k–4.0k, n=4)[17][18][19][20]

Relations

Part of
Politiezone Demerdal DSZ, Emergency zone Flemish Brabant East[21][22]
More facts +21
Annual number of weddings
+81
Area
+58.20
Capital
Diest[7]
Coat of arms
coat of arms of Diest[16]
Contains settlement
Kaggevinne, Molenstede, Deurne, Schaffen, Webbekom[33][34][35][36][37]
Demonym
Diestenaar
Described by source
Topographia Circuli Burgundici, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[31][32]
Flag
flag of Diest[14]
Head of government
Christophe De Graef[5]
List of monuments
Onroerend erfgoed in Diest
Local dialing code
011, 013[23][24]
Located in or next to body of water
Demer[4]
Located in/on physical feature
Hageland[25]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Diest[29]
Official language
Dutch[8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Phone number
+32 13 31 21 21[30]
Population
+23824[28]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 23,824 GeoNames 23,998 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Kortenaken, Bekkevoort, Halen, Zichem, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem[9][10][11][12][13]
Significant event
Siege of Diest[26]
Twinned administrative body
Orange[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Diest fa دیه he דיסט ja ディースト ko 디스트 ru Дист th ดีสต์ uk Діст (місто) zh 迪斯特
🔖 Identifiers · 38
VIAF cluster ID
140762849
Library of Congress authority ID
n83227102
GND ID
4230912-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Diest15.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
3806
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119735441
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
diest
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q743236
De Agostini ID
Diest
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
46691f90-d3b8-4cd7-a678-5f7ab1f00a70
Email address
mailto:info@diest.be
Enterprise number (Belgium)
0207517345
Show all 38 identifiers +26
European Unique Identifier
BEKBOBCE.0207.517.345
Facebook username
StadDiest
FactGrid item ID
André Dills
Freebase ID
/m/014wbb
GADM ID
BEL.2.4.2.8_1
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1957011
GeoNames ID
2799398
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2799398 GND (DNB) 2799397 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7007874
Instagram username
staddiest
LinkedIn company or organization ID
stad-diest
MusicBrainz area ID
3aca1189-c6b9-4ff6-8d1e-811dcf762cd3
NIS/INS code
24020
NL CR AUT ID
ge671758
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007566897605171
OVO ID
OVO002051
OpenCorporates ID
be/0207517345
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1172633
Quora topic ID
Diest
Resistance in Belgium ID
computer keyboard
Topic's main category
Category:Diest
UN/LOCODE
BEDIE
Wellcome Collection concept ID
jake3evv
Who's on First ID
101754325
WikiKids ID
Diest
X (Twitter) username
staddiest
Yale LUX ID
place/33c888c5-4352-4536-bfaa-8a3ca2f22619

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🔗 Connections
People born here 27
Timmy Simons, Dylan Teuns, John Berchmans, Marieke Vervoort, Bruno Versavel, Liliane Saint-Pierre, Geert Verheyen, Willy Wellens +19 more
Shares border with 5
Halen, Bekkevoort, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Kortenaken, Zichem
← Destination point 5
2023 Dwars door het Hageland, 2021 Dwars door het Hageland, 2022 Dwars door het Hageland, 2020 Dwars door het Hageland, 2024 Dwars door het Hageland
← Shares border with 5
Halen, Bekkevoort, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Kortenaken, Zichem
Contained subdivisions 4
KFC Diest, béguinage of Diest, Deurne, De Drie Kronen
People who died here 3
Marieke Vervoort, Anna of Lorraine, Claudia of Châlon
Instance of 2
municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city
← Headquarters location 2
KFC Diest, Brouwerij Loterbol
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Diest
Contains settlement 1
Deurne
Country 1
Belgium
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Located in or next to body of water 1
Demer
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Arrondissement of Leuven
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
Hageland
Named after 1
John III of Diest
Official language 1
Dutch
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Resistance in Belgium ID 1
computer keyboard
Topic's main category 1
Category:Diest
Twinned administrative body 1
Orange
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Diest
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Diest
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Arrondissement of Leuven
← Location of formation 1
The Scabs
← Twinned administrative body 1
Orange
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Summary

Diest is a municipality of Belgium[1].

Body

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Diest include John III of Diest[38], a Catholic bishop[39], 1300–1340[40].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Diest include John III of Diest[38], a Catholic bishop[39], 1300–1340[40].

Related Entities

Belgium computer keyboard Orange WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . Crossroad Bank of Enterprises. wikidata.org.
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  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . statbel.fgov.be. Retrieved . statbel.fgov.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . diest.be. Retrieved . diest.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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