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![]() View of the exhibition's main avenue and gondola lift towards the Atomium | |
Overview | |
BIE-class | Universal exposition |
Category | First category General Exposition |
Name | Expo 58 |
Area | 2 km2 (490 acres) |
Visitors | 41,454,412 |
Participant(s) | |
Countries | 44 |
Location | |
Country | Belgium |
City | Brussels |
Venue | Heysel/Heizel Plateau |
Coordinates | 50°53′50″N 4°20′21″E / 50.89722°N 4.33917°E |
Timeline | |
Bidding | 7 May 1948 |
Awarded | November 1953 |
Opening | 17 April 1958 |
Closure | 19 October 1958 |
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Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (French: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, Dutch: Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium, from 17 April to 19 October 1958.[1] It was the first major world's fair registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after World War II.