Melle
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Key facts
- Country
- Belgium
- Community
- Flemish Community
- Region
- Flemish Region
- Province
- East Flanders
- Arrondissement
- Ghent
- Mayor
- Dirk De Maeseneer ( CD&V )
- Governing parties
- CD&V , N-VA
- Total
- 11,574
- Area codes
- 09
- Website
- www.melle.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Ghent
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 11574
- Area
- 15.21
- Elevation
- 16
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Ringvaart (Ghent)
- Shares border with
- Wetteren
- Official website
- www.melle.be
- Image
- Station Melle - Foto 1.JPG
- Dialing code
- 09
- Patron saint
- Martin of Tours
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- Commons category
- Melle (Belgium)
- topic's main category
- Category:Melle, Belgium
- postal code
- 9090
- annual number of weddings
- 51
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-9-252-10-23
- replaced by
- Merelbeke-Melle
- P13200
- Eduardo Frei Montalva
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2024-12-31
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Encyclopedic overview
Melle ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛlə] ) is a former municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the villages of Gontrode [nl] and Melle proper. On 1 January 2018 Melle had a total population of 11,574. The total area is 15.21 km² which gives a population density of 761 inhabitants per km².
Melle was mentioned in documents in 830, although the archeological findings prove the region was inhabited long before that date.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.