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Aalter
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Aalter () is a municipality located between Bruges and Ghent in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Aalter, Bellem, , Poeke, Knesselare and . It is bordered on the north by Maldegem, on the east by Zomergem and Nevele, on the south by Deinze, and on the west by the province of West Flanders. The mayor is Pieter De Crem.
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.name
- Aalter
- Belgium municipality.picture
- Stationsstraat - Aalter - België.jpg
- Belgium municipality.map
- Aalter East-Flanders Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- Location of Aalter in East Flanders
- Belgium municipality.arms
- Blason ville be Aalter.svg
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Aalter vlag.svg
- Belgium municipality.province
- East Flanders
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Ghent
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 44084
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Pieter De Crem (CD&V)
- Belgium municipality.majority
- CD&V/N-VA
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 9880, 9881, 9910
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 09
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.aalter.be
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Demonym
- Aalternaar
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Ghent
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 29340
- Area
- 119.85
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Wingene
- Official website
- www.aalter.be
- Image
- Aalter - Town hall.jpg
- Dialing code
- 09
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- located in/on physical feature
- Meetjesland
- twinned administrative body
- La Creuse
- Commons category
- Aalter
- topic's main category
- Category:Aalter
- postal code
- 9881
- annual number of weddings
- 87
- P13200
- November
- contact page URL
- www.aalter.be/contact
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-9-325-22-00
- contains settlement
- Bellem
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Aalter () is a municipality located between Bruges and Ghent in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Aalter, Bellem, , Poeke, Knesselare and . It is bordered on the north by Maldegem, on the east by Zomergem and Nevele, on the south by Deinze, and on the west by the province of West Flanders. The mayor is Pieter De Crem.
Effective 1 January 2019, the municipality of Knesselare was merged into Aalter. Aalter was home to 29,242 people in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aalter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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