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Wilrijk

district of the City of Antwerp, Belgium
Organization Municipality Section Q2687417
Wilrijk
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Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality section, district of Antwerp, municipality of Belgium[4]
Official website
www.wilrijk.be, www.antwerpen.be[8][9]
Native label
Wilrijk[15]
Official name
Wilrijk[12]

Location

Country
Belgium[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.167°, 4.383°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Antwerp[2]
Postal code
2610[6]
More facts +7
Area
+13.61[17]
Demonym
Wilrijkenaar[14]
Elevation above sea level
+16[16]
Flag
flag of Wilrijk[5]
List of monuments
Liste des monuments historiques de Wilrijk[13]
Patron saint
Saint Bavo[7]
Population
+38319, +42729[10][11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 38,319 · 42,729 GeoNames 41,403 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
🏷️ Also known as
en Wilrijk el Βίλρεκ es Wilrijck fa ویلریج he וילריק ja ウィルライク ja ウィルレイク ru Вилрейк tr Villariacum zh 维尔赖克 zh-hant 維爾賴克
🔖 Identifiers · 22
VIAF cluster ID
151939569
GND ID
2062350-1
ArchINFORM location ID
47601
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q2687417
Freebase ID
/m/04627y
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1972845
GeoNames ID
2783615
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7257015
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
wilrijk
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0072243
NIS/INS code
11002U
NL CR AUT ID
ge873720
Show all 22 identifiers +10
OVO ID
OVO003113
OpenStreetMap relation ID
59519
RKD thesaurus ID
75500
Resistance in Belgium ID
Aveyron
SNARC ID
Wikidata item
Topic's main category
Category:Wilrijk
UN/LOCODE
BEWIL
Who's on First ID
1125995653
WikiKids ID
Wilrijk
Yale LUX ID
place/5a372605-8e94-4a2b-bc5a-2288a80ad5eb
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Brussels 2026-09-26 P/PPL · BE GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
People born here 50
Toby Alderweireld, Mousa Dembélé, Victor Campenaerts, Dirk Verbeuren, Els Callens, Ilse Heylen, Dries Buytaert, Hanne Desmet +42 more
People who died here 10
Frans Aerenhouts, Frank Swaelen, Jef Nys, Karel Poma, Marie-Rose Morel, Ward Beysen, Guillaume Bijl, Isidoor de Rijck +2 more
Instance of 3
municipality of Belgium, municipality section, district of Antwerp
Located in this place 2
University of Antwerp, Schoonselhof
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Wilrijk, Category:Births in Wilrijk
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Wilrijk
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Wilrijk
Country 1
Belgium
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Antwerp
Patron saint 1
Saint Bavo
Resistance in Belgium ID 1
Aveyron
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Antwerp
← Twinned administrative body 1
Niedernhausen
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Summary

Wilrijk is a municipality section[1].

Related Entities

Belgium Dries Buytaert Mousa Dembélé Toby Alderweireld University of Antwerp

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . stadincijfers.antwerpen.be. stadincijfers.antwerpen.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · SpinnerLaserzthe2nd · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coat of arms image → Wilrijk CoatOfArms.svg
    Flag image → Wilrijk vlag.svg
    "Changed claim: Coat of arms image: Wilrijk CoatOfArms.svg"
  2. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 2062350-1
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56499: Import GND IDs via DNB dump"
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