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Wijnegem

Wijnegem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

Wijnegem
Wijnegem · Charlier, Georges
The place

Wijnegem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Wijnegem proper. Wijnegem is one of the most expensive municipalities of the Flanders. In 2021, Wijnegem had a total population of 10,084. The total area is 7.86 km2 (3.03 sq mi). Wijnegem has the biggest shopping mall in the Benelux, the Wijnegem Shopping Center

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wijnegem

2 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
    Canal Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten

    The Dessel–Turnhout–Schoten Canal is a 63 km long canal across the province of Antwerp, Belgium. It links Dessel to Schoten, where the canal flows into the Albert Canal.

    2.4 km · canal in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wijnegem Shop Eat Enjoy

    The Wijnegem Shop Eat Enjoy is a shopping mall in Wijnegem, near Antwerp, Belgium. It features 250 stores and has a gross leasable area of 61,913 square metres, making it the largest shopping mall in Belgium and the Benelux.

    2.7 km · shopping mall in Wijnegem, Belgium · 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 Wijnegem

Airports
Brussels (BRU), 37 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 63 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 81 km
  • Charleroi → Wijnegem
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · €11–16
  • Oostende → Wijnegem
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €13–18
  • Eindhoven → Wijnegem
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wijnegem

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are some regular, but mostly seasonal flights to various popular holiday destinations in Southern Europe, Morocco and Turkey, as well as private and chartered (business) aviation.
  • Get inFrom the United Kingdom: take your bike on the ferry from Dover to Dunkerque (France, 20 km from the Belgian border, from the ferry port is actually over 30 km) and follow the coastal road from there until you reach De Panne (Belgium).
  • Go nextSome of the more popular destinations that can be visited on a day trip from Antwerp are: Bruges (Brugge) — Very nice medieval town.
  • Go nextThe train ride is pretty long (sometimes over two hours) making it less easy for a day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Antwerp, 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

    229 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    413 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    626 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    641 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    758 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wijnegem

Wijnegem is 9 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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