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Torhout
Sign in to saveTorhout (; ; ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Torhout proper, the villages of Wijnendale and Sint-Henricus, and the hamlet of De Driekoningen. On 29 February 2024 Torhout had a total population of 24,891. The total area is 45.23 km2 which gives a population density of 445 inhabitants per km2.
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.name
- Torhout
- Belgium municipality.type
- city
- Belgium municipality.picture
- Torhout - City hall 1.jpg
- Belgium municipality.picture legend
- Town Hall
- Belgium municipality.map
- Torhout West-Flanders Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- Location of Torhout in West Flanders
- Belgium municipality.arms
- Torhout wapen.svg
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Flag of Torhout.svg
- Belgium municipality.province
- West Flanders
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Bruges
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 31033
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Kristof Audenaert (CD&V)
- Belgium municipality.majority
- CD&V, Vooruit
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 8820
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 050
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.torhout.be
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Torhoutenaar
- Population
- 20530
- Area
- 45.23
- Official website
- www.torhout.be
- Image
- Torhout - City hall 1.jpg
- Dialing code
- 050
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- Commons category
- Torhout
- postal code
- 8820
- annual number of weddings
- 98
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-50-22-11-22
- P13200
- Ludwigsburg
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Torhout (; ; ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Torhout proper, the villages of Wijnendale and Sint-Henricus, and the hamlet of De Driekoningen. On 29 February 2024 Torhout had a total population of 24,891. The total area is 45.23 km2 which gives a population density of 445 inhabitants per km2.
==People associated with Torhout== Rimbert, saint Josse van Huerter, first settler, and captain-major of the island of Faial in the Portuguese Azores. Karel Van Wijnendaele (Founder of Tour of Flanders (Tour of Flanders)) Benny Vansteelant (Multiple World Champion Duathlon) and Joerie Vansteelant Luk Descheemaeker, winner at the 2nd Holocaust cartoon contest in Tehran, 2016. Hilde Crevits, Vice Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish minister of Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Agriculture; and former mayor of Torhout (2016-2018) Brahim Attaeb, R&B singer and presenter Gilles Gérard Meersseman, Catholic theologian and Church historian
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