Antwerp (bel)

Antwerp

Antwerp ranks 106th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zürich, Rotterdam, and Beijing. Memorable people born in Antwerp include Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, and Abraham Ortelius. Memorable people who died in Antwerp include Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Antwerp has been the birth place of many painters and soccer players and the death place of many painters and writers. Antwerp is located in Belgium.

Antwerp is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 km2 (78.96 sq mi) after Tournai and Couvin. With a population of 536,079, it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of over 1,200,000 people, the country's second-largest metropolitan region after Brussels. Read more on Wikipedia