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Key facts
- Country
- Belgium
- Community
- Flemish Community
- Region
- Flemish Region
- Province
- West Flanders
- Arrondissement
- Veurne
- Mayor
- Geert Vanden Broucke (CD&V)
- Governing party
- CD&V
- Total
- 33.28 km (12.85 sq mi)
- Density
- 345.2/km (894.0/sq mi)
- Area codes
- 058
- Website
- www.nieuwpoort.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Belgian municipality with the title of city
- Official name
- Nieuwpoort
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Veurne
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 11488
- Area
- 33.28
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- North Sea
- Shares border with
- Koksijde
- Official website
- www.nieuwpoort.be
- Image
- Nieuwpoort - City hall 2.jpg
- Dialing code
- 058
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- twinned administrative body
- Durbuy
- Commons category
- Nieuwpoort (Belgium)
- category for people born here
- Q8743870
- topic's main category
- Category:Nieuwpoort, Belgium
- postal code
- 8620
- native label
- Nieuwpoort
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- annual number of weddings
- 45
- WordLift URL
- data.wordlift.io/wl01254/entity/nieuwpoort
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-58-22-44-44
- contains settlement
- Ramskapelle
- P13200
- flower
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Encyclopedic overview
Nieuwpoort (/ˈnjuːpɔːrt/ NEW-port, Dutch: [ˈniupoːrt] ; West Flemish: Nieuwpôort; French: Nieuport [njøpɔʁ]) is a city and municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Nieuwpoort proper, as well as Ramskapelle and Sint-Joris. On 1 January 2008, Nieuwpoort had a total population of 11,062. Its land area is 31.00 km² which gives a population density of 350 inhabitants per km².
In Nieuwpoort, the Yser flows into the North Sea. It was also the home of a statue created by Jan Fabre called Searching for Utopia. The Stadshalle Grain Hall (market hall) with its belfry was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France site, owing to its historical civic (not religious) importance and its architecture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nieuwpoort” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.