Tongeren is a city in the Limburg province of Belgium, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish Region, and is described as the oldest town in Belgium, the only Roman administrative capital within the present-day borders of the country. Known in Roman times as Atuatuca Tungrorum, it served as the administrative center of the Civitas Tungrorum, home to the Tungri people. As of 2020 it had a population of 31,142; as of January 1, 2025 Tongeren merged into the new municipality of Tongeren-Borgloon.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Tongeren (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 31,142 (2020)
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Tongeren coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 104.0 ]
3. 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, 5.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.75, 5.25
50.75 5.25 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Tongeren - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2785389, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2785389, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
50.78054 5.46484 P PPL BE VLG VLI 73 73111 29816 107 Europe/Brussels
Tongeren (Wikipedia)
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Tongeren (Dutch: [ˈtɔŋərə(n)] ; French: Tongres [tɔ̃ɡʁ]; German: Tongern [ˈtɔŋɐn]; Limburgish: Tóngere [ˈtʊŋəʀə]) is a city and former municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium.
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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