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Wevelgem

Wevelgem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.

Wevelgem
Wevelgem · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wevelgem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Gullegem, Moorsele and Wevelgem proper. On January 1, 2006, Wevelgem had a total population of 31,020. The total area is 38.76 km2 which gives a population density of 800 inhabitants per km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wevelgem

One place 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
    Menen German war cemetery

    The Menen German war cemetery is a military cemetery in the Belgian town of Menen territory and partly in Wevelgem. There were nearly 48,000 German soldiers buried from the First World War, making it the largest in Flanders.

    1.5 km · cemetery in Menen, Belgium · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wevelgem

Airports
Lille (LIL), 26 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 49 km · Brussels (BRU), 93 km
Stations
Kortrijk-Wevelgem International Airport, 3.3 km
  • Oostende → Wevelgem
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €7–9
  • Zaventem → Wevelgem
    92 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €11–16
  • Charleroi → Wevelgem
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wevelgem

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 Wevelgem. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    302 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    550 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    630 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    766 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wevelgem

  • Menencity in West Flanders, Belgium3.2 km