Geel is a municipality and city in the province of Antwerp in Belgium, and it acquired formal city status in the 1980s. Its core, Central-Geel, is made up of four old parishes or towns, Sint-Amand, Sint-Dimpna, Holven and Elsum. Around that center lie further parish-towns, namely Ten Aard to the north, Bel to the east, Winkelomheide to the southeast, Stelen, Oosterlo and Zammel to the south, Punt to the southwest and Larum to the west. In 2021 Geel had a total population of 40,781 people, spread over an area of 109.85 square kilometers. The town is best known through its patron saint, the Irish Saint Dymphna, who inspired a pioneering de-institutionalized method of caring for people with mental illness.
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1. Geel (source article)
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In 2021, Geel had a total population of 40,781.
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The total area is 109.85 km2 (42 sq mi).
Part Of: Belgium, Lead, first sentence
Geel (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣeːl] ) is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp
On Continent: Europe, Lead, first sentence
Geel (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣeːl] ) is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp
View the Source2. 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 51.25, 4.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 4.75
51.25 4.75 Cfb
3. GeoNames: Geel - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2797779, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2797779, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
51.16557 4.98917 P PPL BE VLG VAN 13 13008 34697 22 Europe/Brussels
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