Hemiksem is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 located in the Belgian

Belgium

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 province of Antwerp

Antwerp (province)

Antwerp is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and East Flanders. Its capital is Antwerp which comprises the Port of Antwerp...

. The municipality only comprises the town of Hemiksem proper. On January 1, 2010 Hemiksem had a total population of 10,166. The total area is 5.44 km² which gives a population density

Population density

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 of 1,868 inhabitants per km².

Sights

The most notable sight in Hemiksem is the 13th century St. Bernard's Abbey

St. Bernard's Abbey, Hemiksem

St. Bernard's Abbey, Hemiksem, also known as St. Bernard's Abbey on the Scheldt , located in Hemiksem in the province of Antwerp in Belgium, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1243 and dissolved during the French Revolution...

, which now houses the town hall and police headquarters, after having undergone extensive renovations in the past decade.