Wilnis

Wilnis is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the municipality of De Ronde Venen, between Mijdrecht and Vinkeveen. It is about twenty kilometres south of Amsterdam. Wilnis was a separate municipality until 1989.

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Type: Village with 6,380 residents
Description: farm village in the Netherlands
Postal code: 3648

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ontmoetingskerk, Wilnis and Station Wilnis.

Ontmoetingskerk, Wilnis

Church

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Ontmoetingskerk, Wilnis is a church.

Station Wilnis

House

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Station Wilnis is a house.

De Veenmolen

Windmill

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De Veenmolen is a windmill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mijdrecht and Aan de Zuwe.

Mijdrecht

Town

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Mijdrecht is a town in the Netherlands with about 16,000 residents. It is located in the municipality of De Ronde Venen, about 7 kilometres west of the main A2 motorway, between Utrecht and Amsterdam. Mijdrecht is situated 2½ km northwest of Wilnis.

Aan de Zuwe

Hamlet

Aan de Zuwe is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the municipality of De Ronde Venen, 3 km south of Wilnis. It was first mentioned in 1936 as Aan-de-Zuwe, and it references the Willenser Zuwe, a canal on which the hamlet is situated. Aan de Zuwe is situated 2½ km south of Wilnis.

Waverveen

Village

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Waverveen is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the municipality of De Ronde Venen, 3 km west of Vinkeveen. Waverveen was a separate municipality until 1841, when it was merged with Vinkeveen to form the municipality of Vinkeveen en Waverveen. Waverveen is situated 3 km north of Wilnis.

Wilnis

Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, and locality
Location: De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude

52.19538° or 52° 11′ 43″ north

Longitude

4.89907° or 4° 53′ 57″ east

Population

6,380

Elevation

-2 metres (-7 feet)

United Nations Location Code

NL WLN

Open location code

9F465VWX+5J

OpenStreetMap ID

node 947036525

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2744376

Wikidata ID

Q2299082

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Wilnis” goes by many names.

Arabic: “ويلنيس”
Asturian: “Wilnis”
Catalan: “Wilnis”
Cebuano: “Wilnis”
Chinese: “Wilnis”
Chinese: “維爾尼斯”
Chinese: “维尔尼斯”
Dutch: “Wilnis”
Egyptian Arabic: “ويلنيس”
Esperanto: “Wilnis”
French: “Wilnis”
Irish: “Wilnis”
Lithuanian: “Vilnisas”
Luxembourgish: “Wilnis”
Min Nan Chinese: “Wilnis”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilnis”
Persian: “ویلنیس”
Russian: “Вилнис”
Spanish: “Wilnis”
Turkish: “Wilnis”
Ukrainian: “Вілніс”
Welsh: “Wilnis”
Zeeuws: “Wilnis”

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