Kortrijk

Kortrijk (offeecial name in Dutch, pronoonced ; , ; ) is a Belgian ceety an municipality locatit in the Flemish province Wast Flanders. It is the caipital an biggest ceety o the arrondissement o Kortrijk, which is baith a judicial an an admeenistrative arrondissement.
The wider municipality comprises the ceety o Kortrijk proper an the touns o Aalbeke, Bellegem, Bissegem, Heule, Kooigem, Marke, an Rollegem.
The ceety is situatit on the Leie, 42 km (26 mile) soothwast o Ghent an 25 km (15 mile) northeast o Lille in Fraunce. Baith Kortrijk an Lille are pairt o the same transnaitional Eurodistrict urban aurie wi aroond 1,900,000 inhabitants. Populationdata.net , Palmarès des plus grandes villes du monde – page 3] As the biggest ceety o soothren Wast Flanders, Kortrijk haes mony schuils, hospitals an shoppin streets.

 Toun twinnin 
Kortrijk participates in toun twinnin tae encourage guid internaitional relations.

  Bad Godesberg (Bonn, Germany), syne 1964
  Cebu Ceety (Philippines), syne 2005
  Frascati (Italy), syne 1967
  Greenville (Sooth Carolina, Unitit States), syne 1991
  Saint-Cloud (Fraunce), syne 1993
  Tashkent (Uzbekistan), syne late 1980's
  Windsor an Maidenhead (Unitit Kinrick), syne 1981
  Wuxi (Cheenae), syne 2007

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Category:Populatit places in Belgium
Category:Municipalities o Wast Flanders
Category:Submunicipalities o Kortrijk