What is Blankenberge?
{{Infobox Belgium Municipality |name=Blankenberge |picture=Blankenberge seaside.jpg |picture-legend=Blankenberge beach on a hot summer day |map=BlankenbergeLocatie.png |map-legend=Location of Blankenberge in [[West Flanders]] |arms=Blason Blankenberge.svg |flag=Blankenberge vlag.svg |region={{BE-REG-FLE}} |community={{BE-NL}} |province={{BE-PROV-WV}} |arrondissement=[[Arrondissement of Bruges|Bruges]] |nis=31004 |pyramid-date=01/01/2006 |0-19=17.13 |20-64=58.79 |65=24.08 |foreigners=2.58 |foreigners-date=01/07/2005 |mayor={{Interlanguage link multi|Ivan De Clerck|nl}} ([[Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten|Open VLD]]) |majority=[[Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten|Open VLD]], [[sp.a]], [[N-VA]] |postal-codes=8370 |telephone-area=050 |web=[http://www.blankenberge.be/ www.blankenberge.be] |coordinates = {{coord|51|18|N|03|07|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}} }} '''Blankenberge''' is a [[municipality]] in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] province of [[West Flanders]]. In 2014, 19.879 people lived there.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://statbel.fgov.be/downloads/pop200701com.xls |title=Werkelijke bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2014 / Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier 2007 (.xls) |access-date=2008-07-14 |archive-date=2008-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123144002/http://statbel.fgov.be/downloads/pop200701com.xls |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is at 51° 18 North, 03° 07 East.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://statbel.fgov.be/pub/d1/p120_nl.xls |title=Geografische coördinaten van de gemeenten (.xls) |access-date=2008-07-14 |archive-date=2004-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040723190930/http://statbel.fgov.be/pub/d1/p120_nl.xls |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{West_Flanders}} {{Belgium-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Municipalities of West Flanders]] [[Category:Port cities and towns of the North Sea]]