Kortrijk is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region, on the Leie river between Ghent and the French city of Lille, with about 80,000 inhabitants and serving as the capital of the Kortrijk arrondissement. It grew from the Roman settlement of Cortoriacum into a major medieval center for flax and textile production. The city is particularly known for the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302, in which Flemish forces defeated French knights, an event still commemorated as a regional holiday, and its largely preserved medieval architecture includes a UNESCO listed belfry and beguinage within one of the largest car free urban zones in Belgium.
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1. Kortrijk (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 77,741 (2022)
2. 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 50.75, 3.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 3.25
50.75 3.25 Cfb
3. GeoNames: Kortrijk - GeoNames
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50.82803 3.26487 P PPL BE VLG VWV 34 34022 73879 22 Europe/Brussels
Kortrijk (Wikipedia)
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Kortrijk ( KORT-ryke, Dutch: [ˈkɔrtrɛik] ; West Flemish: Kortryk or Kortrik; French: Courtrai [kuʁtʁɛ]), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( koor-TRAY), is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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