Brecht
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Key facts
- Country
- Belgium
- Community
- Flemish Community
- Region
- Flemish Region
- Province
- Antwerp
- Arrondissement
- Antwerp
- Mayor
- Frans Van Looveren (Nu2960)
- Governing parties
- N-VA , CD&V -CDB
- Total
- 91.46 km (35.31 sq mi)
- Density
- 322.0/km (834.1/sq mi)
- Area codes
- 03
- Website
- www.brecht.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Antwerp
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 29454
- Area
- 91.45
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Schilde
- Official website
- www.brecht.be
- Image
- Brecht kerk.jpg
- Dialing code
- 03
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- Commons category
- Brecht, Belgium
- topic's main category
- Category:Brecht, Belgium
- postal code
- 2960
- annual number of weddings
- 115
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-3-203-20-00
- P13200
- infinity
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Encyclopedic overview
Brecht ( Dutch pronunciation: [brɛxt] ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in-'t-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts [nl]. In 2021, Brecht had a total population of 29,809. The total area is 90.84 km.
Brecht is a fast-growing municipality in the north of the Antwerp province, near the Dutch border. Noorderkempen, a railway station on the HSL 4, opened on 15 June 2009.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brecht” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.