Kapellen

municipality in Antwerp, Belgium

Administrative Area Municipality of Belgium Q724942

Facts

26 properties

Identity

Instance of: municipality of Belgium
Official website: www.kapellen.be^[20]
Legal form: Cities and municipalities^[27]
Native label: Kapellen
Official name: Kapellen^[26]

Location

Country: Belgium^[3]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 51.315°, 4.429°
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Arrondissement of Antwerp^[2]
Postal code: 2950^[16]

Relations

Part of: Politiezone Noord, Emergency zone Antwerp 3^[17]^[18]

More facts +16

Annual number of weddings: 107 (2016)
Area: 37.11 km², 37.22 km² (2019)
Capital: Kapellen^[6]
Coat of arms: coat of arms of Kapellen^[15]
Demonym: Kapellenaar^[29]
Flag: flag of Kapellen^[14]
Head of government: Dirk Van Mechelen (2001–present)^[5]
List of monuments: Onroerend erfgoed in Kapellen, Belgium^[28]
Local dialing code: 03^[19]
Located in or next to body of water: Antitankgracht^[4]
Office held by the head of government: Mayor of Kapellen^[24]
Official language: Dutch^[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Govdirectory
Phone number: +32-3-660-66-00^[25]
Population: 27k (27k–27k, n=3)^[21]^[22]^[23]
Shares border with: Brasschaat, Kalmthout, Antwerp, Stabroek, Wuustwezel, Woensdrecht^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

🏷️ Also known as

en Kapellen fa کپولان he קאפלן ja カペッレン ja カペレン ko 카펠런 ru Капеллен zh 卡佩伦 zh-hant 卡佩倫

🔖 Identifiers · 31

Legal Entity Identifier: 5493001Z9XB0IQVWJL52
VIAF cluster ID: 153799818
GND ID: 5270348-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Station Kapellen.jpg ↗
Data Commons ID: wikidataId/Q724942
Email address: mailto:gemeente@kapellen.be
Enterprise number (Belgium): 0207539913
European Unique Identifier: BEKBOBCE.0207.539.913
Facebook username: gemeentekapellen
Freebase ID: /m/014gqk
GADM ID: BEL.2.1.1.13_1
GNS Unique Feature ID: -1,961,694

Show all 31 identifiers +19

GeoNames ID: 2794733
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID: 1026525
Instagram username: 2950kapellen
LinkedIn company or organization ID: gemeente-kapellen
MusicBrainz area ID: 1c51a38f-26be-483f-b315-af2d31d63689
NIS/INS code: 11023
OVO ID: OVO002117
OpenCorporates organization ID: be/0207539913
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 61255
Quora topic ID: Kapellen-Belgium
Resistance in Belgium ID: Saint Catherine Street
SBN place ID: TSAL000972
Subreddit: kapellen
Topic's main category: Category:Kapellen, Belgium
UN/LOCODE: BEKPN
WikiKids ID: Kapellen
X (Twitter) username: 2950kapellen (2016–present)
YouTube channel ID: UCeNHv6sN15XKDDXjgQEzOeg (2014–present)
YouTube handle: 2950kapellen (2025)

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🔗 Connections

People born here 11

Mathieu van der Poel, Tom De Mul, Sam Bettens, Frans Daneels, Kevin van Dessel, Dirk Van Mechelen, Senne Rouffaer, Herman Suykerbuyk +3 more

← Shares border with 7

Antwerp, Woensdrecht, Brasschaat, Kalmthout, Stabroek, Wuustwezel, Ekeren

Shares border with 6

Antwerp, Woensdrecht, Brasschaat, Kalmthout, Stabroek, Wuustwezel

People who died here 4

Jan Blockx, Edmond Crahay, Senne Rouffaer, Ben Staartjes

← Category combines topics 2

Category:Births in Kapellen (Antwerp), Category:People from Kapellen, Belgium

Category for people born here 1

Category:Births in Kapellen (Antwerp)

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Kapellen, Belgium

Contained subdivisions 1

Kapellen railway station

Country 1

Belgium

Head of government 1

Dirk Van Mechelen

Instance of 1

municipality of Belgium

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Arrondissement of Antwerp

Located in time zone 1

UTC+01:00

Official language 1

Dutch

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

WikiProject Govdirectory

Resistance in Belgium ID 1

Saint Catherine Street

Topic's main category 1

Category:Kapellen, Belgium

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Kapellen, Belgium

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Arrondissement of Antwerp

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Summary

Kapellen is a municipality of Belgium^[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[5] ↑ Kapellen — head of government (P6): Dirk Van Mechelen. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Kapellen — country (P17): Belgium. Global LEI Index. Retrieved 2024-09-17. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Kapellen — capital (P36): Kapellen. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Kapellen — official language (P37): Dutch. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Kapellen — shares border with (P47): Brasschaat. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Kapellen — shares border with (P47): Kalmthout. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Kapellen — shares border with (P47): Antwerp. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Kapellen — shares border with (P47): Stabroek. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Kapellen — shares border with (P47): Wuustwezel. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Kapellen — shares border with (P47): Woensdrecht. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Kapellen — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Arrondissement of Antwerp. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Kapellen — flag (P163): flag of Kapellen. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Kapellen — located in or next to body of water (P206): Antitankgracht. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Kapellen — coat of arms (P237): coat of arms of Kapellen. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Kapellen — postal code (P281): 2950. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Kapellen — part of (P361): Politiezone Noord. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Kapellen — part of (P361): Emergency zone Antwerp 3. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Kapellen — local dialing code (P473): 03. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Kapellen — official website (P856): https://www.kapellen.be/. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Kapellen — population (P1082): 26,540. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Kapellen — population (P1082): 26,771. statbel.fgov.be. Retrieved 2019-03-09. statbel.fgov.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Kapellen — population (P1082): 26,981. statbel.fgov.be. statbel.fgov.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Kapellen — office held by head of government (P1313): Mayor of Kapellen. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Kapellen — phone number (P1329): +32-3-660-66-00. Organization register Flemish government. Retrieved 2023-09-20. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Kapellen — official name (P1448): Kapellen. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Kapellen — legal form (P1454): Cities and municipalities. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Kapellen — list of monuments (P1456): Onroerend erfgoed in Kapellen, Belgium. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Kapellen — demonym (P1549): Kapellenaar. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Kapellen is an instance of municipality of Belgium (Q493522) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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17w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Located in time zone → —

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26w ago · Cristan · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗

UN/LOCODE → BEKPN

"Created claim: UN/LOCODE: BEKPN"

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