Antwerp (District, Municipality of Antwerp, Belgium) (original) (raw)

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• Presentation of the Antwerp district
• Flag of the Antwerp district

See also:

• Belgium
• Municipality of Antwerp
• Districts in Antwerp

Presentation of the Antwerp district

The Antwerp district (168,049 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 8,730 ha) was formed in 1983 when the former municipalities of Berchem,Borgerhout, Deurne, Ekeren, Hoboken, Merksem and Wilrijk were merged with the former municipality of Antwerp, each of them becoming a district. The three former municipalities of Berendrecht, Zandvliet and Lillo, merged with Antwerp in 1958, were detached from the Antwerp district to form the Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo district (aka Bezali).

Ivan Sache, 3 October 2008

Flag of the Antwerp district

The flag of the Antwerp district is prescribed in a Decree adopted on 17 May 2011 by the Municipal Council, (preliminary) approved on 18 February 2009 by the Flemish Heraldic Council, signed on 6 July 2009 by the Executive and published on 17 August 2011 in the Belgian official gazette.

The flag is swallow-tailed, horizontally divided red-white-red (1:3:1) with a bordure counterchanged.

Jan Mertens, 23 August 2011