About Mechelen
Mechelen is a city in Flanders, Belgium with a population of 77,530. It is the 18th largest of the 222 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Belgium, and the 7,434th largest worldwide. It lies 21 km from Brussels.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#8of 144
Elevation
8 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Europe/Brussels
Coordinates
51.026, 4.478
Record updated
2019-09-05
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.