thumb|Coat of Arms of Gijzegem thumb|260px|Parish house with statue of Jan Frans Vonck who was born in Baardegem
thumb|Coat of Arms of Gijzegem thumb|260px|Parish house with statue of Jan Frans Vonck who was born in Baardegem
Baardegem is a village in the Belgian province of East Flanders and is a submunicipality of Aalst. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977. Baardegem is located in the Denderstreek. It measures 605 hectares and has 1948 inhabitants.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).