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Lanaken

Lanaken is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg.

Lanaken
Lanaken · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lanaken is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1, 2007, the municipality of Lanaken had a total population of 24,724. Its area is 59.00 km2 which gives a population density of 415 inhabitants per km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lanaken

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Zuid-Willemsvaart

    Canal in the Netherlands and Belgium

    3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Juliana Canal

    36 km long canal in the southern Netherlands

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Veldwezelt-Hezerwater

    Middle Paleolithic archaeological site in Flanders

    3.1 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Lanaken

Airports
Maastricht Aachen (MST), 9 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 66 km · Brussels (BRU), 82 km
  • Zaventem → Lanaken
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €10–14
  • Charleroi → Lanaken
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €12–17
  • Oostende → Lanaken
    194 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €22–31
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lanaken

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lanaken. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPrivate taxi and minibus transfers are available at [http://www.maastrichttransfer.com].

From Wikivoyage: Maastricht, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    270 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    489 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    562 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    722 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    739 km

If you know how people move in Lanaken – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Lanaken

  • Maastrichtcity, municipality and capital of province Limburg, the Netherlands3 km
  • Borgharentown in Maastricht, the Netherlands2.7 km
  • Boschpoortneighbourhood in Maastricht, Netherlands3.6 km