. . "089" . . . "3680" . "Maaseik is a town and municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. Both in size (close to 77 km\u00B2) as in population (around 25,000 inhabitants, of whom ca. 3,000 non-Belgian) it is the 8th largest municipality in Belgian Limburg . The town is the seat of the administrative arrondissement of Maaseik (kieskanton). Internationally, Maaseik is known as the assumed birthplace of the famous Flemish painters Jan and Hubert van Eyck."@en .