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Antwerp riverfront, april 2012
Antwerp seen across the Scheldt river
AntwerpCS May 2012
Antwerp Central Station

Antwerpen is a city in Antwerp province in the north of Belgium. It is at 51° 12 North, 04° 24 East.

It is the capital of the province with the same name.

In 2007, 466,203 people lived there. The city is divided in 9 zones, called districts:

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  • Grote Markt (Antwerpen)

    Grote Markt

  • Steen

    Het Steen Castle

  • Osias Beert the Elder - Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine - Google Art Project

    Osias Beert the Elder, from Antwerp. Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine, c. 1620/1625

  • Wolf-Dietrich-Klebeband Städtebilder G 111 III

    Sack of Antwerp in 1576, in which about 7,000 people died.

  • Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii - Antwerpen, het markgraafschap en de belangrijkste gebouwen (Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1624)

    Map of Antwerp (1624)

  • Antwerp and the river Scheldt, photochrom

    Antwerp and the river Scheldt, photochrom ca. 1890–1900

  • Antwerp, Belgium, from the left bank of the Scheldt (ca. 1890-1900)

    Antwerp, Belgium, from the left bank of the Scheldt (c. 1890 – 1900)

  • 1593 Valckenborch Ansicht von Antwerpen mit zugefrorener Schelde anagoria

    "View of Antwerp with the frozen Scheldt" (1590) by Lucas van Valckenborch

  • Willy Stöwer - Antwerpen 1914

    The German bombardment of Antwerp, October 1914, by Willy Stöwer

  • Antwerpen Districts

    Districts of Antwerp

  • Antwerpen Stadhuis crop2 2006-05-28

    Antwerp City Hall at the Grote Markt (Main Square)

  • Antwerpen, Gildehäuser

    16th-century Guildhouses at the Grote Markt

  • Antwerpen kathedraal02

    The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal (the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp), here seen from the Groenplaats, is the tallest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to several triptychs by the Baroque painter Rubens. It remains the tallest building in the city.

  • Antwerpen-Brabo

    Statue of Brabo and the giant's hand

  • Antwerp lawcourts

    Antwerp lawcourts

  • 0 Het Steen - Antwerpen (1)

    Het Steen (literally: 'The Stone')

  • Population-antwerp

    Population timeline of Antwerp

  • Antwerpen Synagoge Bouwmeestersstraat2

    Hollandse Synagogue

  • Templejaindanvers

    Jain temple, Antwerp

  • Zicht op het Delwaidedok

    Bevrijdingsdok [nl] terminal at the Port of Antwerp

  • Antwerp International Airport- Deurne Tower

    Antwerp International Airport

  • Antwerpstreetcorner

    One of the many Marian statues which feature on Antwerp street corners

  • 1920 olympics poster

    Official poster of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp

  • Campus Middelheim Building A

    Main building of the Middelheim campus at the University of Antwerp.

  • Rodrigo calderon

    Rodrigo Calderón

  • Anthonyvandyckselfportrait

    Anthony van Dyck, self portrait

  • Nicolaes Maes - Self-portrait

    Nicolaes Maes, self-portrait

  • André Cluytens 1965

    André Cluytens, 1965

  • Tia Hellebaut 2012

    Tia Hellebaut, 2012

  • Damião de Góis

    Damião de Góis

  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Painter and the Buyer, ca. 1566 - Google Art Project

    Pieter Bruegel the Elder

  • Wenzel Hollar nach Jan Meyssens

    Wenceslas Hollar

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