Antwerp Province

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Antwerp
Antwerp ( Dutch )
Anvers ( French )
Flag of Antwerp Province
Coat of arms of the province of Antwerp
Country: Belgium
Region : Flanders
Capital: Antwerp
Area : 2,867 km²
Residents 1,857,986 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density 648 inhabitants / km²
surface 2,867 km²
Municipalities : 69
Website: www.provincieantwerpen.be
NIS code 10,000
politics
Governor: Cathy Berx ( CD&V )
Location of the province in Belgium
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69 municipalities in the province
Municipalities in the province of Antwerp

Antwerp is one of the five provinces of the Belgian region of Flanders and the most populous province in Belgium. It borders the provinces of Limburg in the east, Flemish Brabant in the south and East Flanders in the west. In the north, Antwerp borders on the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant .

Districts

The province of Antwerp is divided into three districts. These are in French as arrondissements and in Dutch as arrondissementen referred. Sometimes the term arrondissement is also used in German, although district is the official term.

district Communities Residents
January 1, 2019 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		NIS
code
Antwerp 30th 000000001051301.00000000001,051,301 1,000.32 000000000001051.00000000001,051 11000
Mechelen 12 000000000344818.0000000000344,818 510.23 000000000000676.0000000000676 12000
Turnhout 27 000000000461867.0000000000461,867 1,356.87 000000000000340.0000000000340 13000
Antwerp Province 69 000000001857986.00000000001,857,986 2,867.42 000000000000648.0000000000648 10,000

Communities

As of January 1, 2019, the province of Antwerp consists of 69 municipalities (population on January 1, 2019)

  1. Aartselaar (14,293)
  2. Antwerp (City) (525,935)
  3. Arendonk (13,293)
  4. Baarle-Hertog (2760)
  5. Balen (22,618)
  6. Beerse (18,084)
  7. Berlaar (11,527)
  8. Boechout (13,266)
  9. Bonheiden (15,010)
  10. Boom (18,244)
  11. Bornem (21,366)
  12. Borsbeek (10,854)
  13. Brasschaat (37,946)
  14. Brecht (29,268)
  15. Dessel (9598)
  16. Duffel (17,491)
  17. Edegem (22,063)
  18. Food (19,038)
  19. Geel (Town) (40,353)
  20. Grobbendonk (11,155)
  21. Heist-op-den-Berg (42,681)
  22. Hemiksem (11,559)
  23. Herentals (City) (28,177)
  24. Herenthout (9061)
  25. Herselt (14,523)
  26. Hoogstraten (City) (21,355)
  27. Hove (8125)
  28. Hulshout (10,424)
  29. Kalmthout (18,695)
  30. Chapels (26,850)
  31. Kasterlee (18,655)
  32. Kontich (21,115)
  33. Laakdal (16,101)
  34. Lier (Town) (36,242)
  35. Lille (16,529)
  36. Lint (8718)
  37. Malle (15,561)
  38. Mechelen (City) (86,616)
  39. Meerhout (10,361)
  40. Merksplas (8600)
  41. Mol (36,825)
  42. Mortsel (Town) (26,099)
  43. Niel (10,501)
  44. Nijlen (22,949)
  45. Olen (12,505)
  46. Oud Turnhout (13,662)
  47. Putte (17,800)
  48. Puurs-Sint-Amands (25,932)
  49. Ranst (19.008)
  50. Ravel (15,009)
  51. Retie (11,396)
  52. Rijkevorsel (12,060)
  53. Rumst (15,090)
  54. Clamp (8518)
  55. Shields (19,652)
  56. Pods (34,517)
  57. Sint-Katelijne-Waver (20,792)
  58. Stabroek (18,710)
  59. Turnhout (Town) (44,664)
  60. Vorselaar (7861)
  61. Vosselaar (11,187)
  62. Westerlo (25,051)
  63. Wijnegem (9816)
  64. Willebroek (26,462)
  65. Wommelgem (12,865)
  66. Wuustwezel (20,970)
  67. Zandhoven (13,025)
  68. Zoersel (21,944)
  69. Zwijndrecht (19,056)

economy

In comparison with the gross domestic product of the European Union, expressed in purchasing power standards , the province achieved an index of 140 (EU-25: 100) in 2015, significantly higher than the Belgian average of 119 and was the economically strongest area of the region after the Brussels-Capital region Country.

In 2017 the unemployment rate was 5.9%.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mouvement de la population par commune depuis 1992 (XLSX; 2.56 MB)
  2. ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Unemployment rate, by NUTS 2 regions. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .