Sint-Joris is a village in the municipality of

Beernem Beernem (; ) is a rural Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Belgium, Belgian province of West Flanders, located southeast of Bruges. The municipality comprises the towns of Beernem proper, Oedelem and Sint-Joris, Beernem, Sint-Joris. On ...

, in the province of

West Flanders West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemis ...

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

. It was an independent municipality until 1977. It covers an area of and had 1785 inhabitants in 2007. There is said to have been a chapel dedicated to Sint-Joris (Saint George) as early as the 10th-11th century.

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Populated places in West Flanders Sub-municipalities of West Flanders Beernem {{WestFlanders-geo-stub