Zaanstad
Zaanstad is a Dutch municipality in the province of North Holland, situated northwest of Amsterdam. Its main settlement is Zaandam. It is part of the conurbation and metropolitan area of Amsterdam. It had a population of 156,901 in 2021.Places of Interest
Highlights include Czar Peter House and Zaans Museum.
Czar Peter House
Museum
The Czar Peter House is a historical building in Zaandam, the Netherlands. It is best known as the place where Tsar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.
Zaans Museum
Museum
Zaans Museum is a museum in Zaandam, Netherlands, located at the Zaanse Schans. It opened in 1998 to preserve and protect the heritage of the Zaan area.
Zaandam railway station
Railway station
Zaandam is the main railway station of Zaandam, near Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is at the junction of the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway and the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zaandam and Zaanse Schans.
Zaandam
Zaandam is a medium-sized town just north of the Dutch capital Amsterdam. It is a short journey from Amsterdam. Zaandam is part of the municipality of Zaanstad in the Zaan Region.Zaanse Schans
The Zaanse Schans is an open air conservation area and museum, on the bank of the Zaan River, north of Zaandam in the Netherlands. It displays the traditional architecture of the area and has several functioning windmills and craftsman's workshops, which are open to visitors.Koog aan de Zaan
Village
Zaanstad
- Category: municipality of the Netherlands
- Location: Gemeente Zaanstad, North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.4531° or 52° 27′ 11″ north
Longitude
4.8136° or 4° 48′ 49″ east
Population
140,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL ZST
Open location code
9F46FR37+7C
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Zaanstad” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Zaanstad”
- Albanian: “Zaanstad”
- Arabic: “زانستاد”
- Aragonese: “Zaanstad”
- Armenian: “Զանստադ”
- Asturian: “Zaanstad”
- Balinese: “Zaanstad”
- Basque: “Zaanstad”
- Belarusian: “Заанстад”
- Belarusian: “Занстад”
- Breton: “Zaanstad”
- Bulgarian: “Занстад”
- Catalan: “Zaanstad”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Zaanstad”
- Chinese: “Zaanstad”
- Chinese: “贊斯塔德”
- Chinese: “赞斯塔德”
- Czech: “Zaanstad”
- Danish: “Zaanstad”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Zaanstad”
- Dutch: “Zaanstad”
- Esperanto: “Zaanstad”
- Estonian: “Zaanstadi vald”
- Finnish: “Zaanstad”
- French: “Zaanstad”
- German: “Saardam”
- German: “Zaandam”
- German: “Zaanstad”
- Hebrew: “זאנסטאט”
- Hungarian: “Zaanstad”
- Indonesian: “Zaanstad”
- Irish: “Zaanstad”
- Italian: “Zaanstad”
- Japanese: “ザーンスタット”
- Javanese: “Zaanstad”
- Korean: “잔스타트”
- Kurdish: “Zaanstad”
- Ladin: “Zaanstad”
- Limburgan: “Zaanstad”
- Low German: “Zaanstad”
- Luxembourgish: “Zaanstad”
- Macedonian: “Занстад”
- Malay: “Zaanstad”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zaanstad”
- Moksha: “Заанстад”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zaanstad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zaanstad”
- Norwegian: “Zaanstad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zaanstad”
- Persian: “زاناستاد”
- Persian: “زانستات”
- Polish: “Zaanstad”
- Portuguese: “Zaanstad”
- Romanian: “Zaanstad”
- Russian: “Занстад”
- Saterfriesisch: “Zaanstad”
- Scots: “Zaanstad”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Zaanstad”
- Serbian: “Занстад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zaanstad”
- Silesian: “Zaanstad”
- Slovenian: “Zaanstad”
- Spanish: “Zaanstad”
- Swahili: “Zaanstad”
- Swedish: “Zaanstad”
- Thai: “ซานสตัด”
- Turkish: “Zaanstad”
- Ukrainian: “Занстад”
- Urdu: “زانستات”
- Venetian: “Zaanstad”
- Vietnamese: “Zaanstad”
- Volapük: “Zaanstad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zaanstad”
- Welsh: “Zaanstad”
- Western Frisian: “Saanstêd”
- Wu Chinese: “赞斯塔德”
- Yue Chinese: “贊斯塔德”
- Zeeuws: “Zaanstad”
- Zeeuws: “Zaenstad”
- “Zaanstad”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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