Bastogne is a city and municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude50.004167 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone FAQs
Why did the Germans fight so hard for Bastogne in December 1944?
History of War states: "The Germans became almost obsessed with capturing the town, and ended up committing more divisions to that battle than to the tip of the advance towards the Meuse. Even after it was clear that the attack had failed to achieve its original aims, Hitler still hoped to make use of the Bulge, and Bastogne was seen as key to that."
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1. Bastogne (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 20,940 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.004167, longitude 5.72
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 484 m
P2046 (area)
area 172.03 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 20940 (2025)
View the Source2. Bastogne (Wikipedia)
Lead section
Bastogne (French pronunciation: [bastɔɲ] ; Dutch: Bastenaken [ˈbɑstəˌnaːkə(n)] ; German: Bastnach/Bastenach [ˈbast(ə)nax]; Luxembourgish: Baaschtnech [ˈbaːʃtnəɕ] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium.
Source text, founding-year-range-start: 634
A form of the name Bastogne was first mentioned only much later, in 634, when the local lord ceded these territories to the St.
Source text, founding-year-range-end: 634
A form of the name Bastogne was first mentioned only much later, in 634, when the local lord ceded these territories to the St.
Source text, founding-year: 634
A form of the name Bastogne was first mentioned only much later, in 634, when the local lord ceded these territories to the St.
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. GeoNames: Bastogne - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2802583
50.00347 5.71844 P PPLA3 BE WAL WLX 82 82039 14395 502 Europe/Brussels
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 502 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 5.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 5.75
50.25 5.75 Cfb
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