Voorschoten
Voorschoten is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a smaller town in the Randstad, enclosed by the cities of Leiden, Wassenaar and Leidschendam-Voorburg.- Type: Town with 25,300 residents
- Description: village and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands
- Postal codes: 2251-2254
- Neighbors: Leiden, Leidschendam-Voorburg, and Wassenaar
Places of Interest
Highlights include Memorials in Voorschoten and Voorschoten railway station.
Voorschoten railway station
Railway station
Voorschoten is a railway station in Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stevenshof and Zoeterwoude-Dorp.
Zoeterwoude-Dorp
Village
Zoeterwoude-Dorp is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Zoeterwoude, and lies about 3.5 km south of Leiden. Zoeterwoude-Dorp is situated 3½ km east of Voorschoten.
Wassenaar
Wassenaar is a town in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. Wassenaar is the richest municipality in the Netherlands, and is attractive as a residence for the wealthy with many grand villas.Voorschoten
Latitude
52.12752° or 52° 7′ 39″ north
Longitude
4.44657° or 4° 26′ 48″ east
Population
25,300
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL VOS
Open location code
9F464CHW+2J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Voorschoten” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Voorschoten”
- Albanian: “Voorschoten”
- Arabic: “فورسخوتن”
- Armenian: “Վորշխոտեն”
- Asturian: “Voorschoten”
- Balinese: “Voorschoten”
- Basque: “Voorschoten”
- Catalan: “Voorschoten”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Voorschoten”
- Cebuano: “Voorschoten”
- Chinese: “福尔斯霍滕”
- Chinese: “福爾斯霍滕”
- Czech: “Voorschoten”
- Danish: “Voorschoten”
- Dutch: “gemeente Voorschoten”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Voorschoten”
- Dutch: “Voorschoten (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Voorschoten”
- Esperanto: “Voorschoten”
- French: “Voorschoten”
- Galician: “Voorschoten”
- German: “Voorschoten”
- Hungarian: “Voorschoten”
- Indonesian: “Voorschoten”
- Irish: “Voorschoten”
- Italian: “Voorschoten”
- Japanese: “フォールスホテン”
- Javanese: “Voorschoten”
- Kurdish: “Voorschoten”
- Ladin: “Voorschoten”
- Limburgan: “Voorschoten”
- Lithuanian: “Vorschotenas”
- Low German: “Vuurskootn”
- Luxembourgish: “Voorschoten”
- Malay: “Voorschoten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voorschoten”
- Norwegian: “Voorschoten”
- Persian: “فورسخوتن”
- Polish: “Voorschoten”
- Portuguese: “Voorschoten”
- Romanian: “Voorschoten”
- Russian: “Ворсхотен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Voorschoten”
- Silesian: “Voorschoten”
- Slovenian: “Voorschoten”
- Spanish: “Voorschoten”
- Swedish: “Voorschoten”
- Turkish: “Voorschoten”
- Ukrainian: “Ворсхотен”
- Urdu: “وورسخوٹن”
- Venetian: “Voorschoten”
- Vietnamese: “Voorschoten”
- Volapük: “Voorschoten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Voorschoten”
- Western Armenian: “Վորսխոդըն”
- Western Frisian: “Voorschoten”
- Zeeuws: “Voorschoten”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Het pleintje and Parkhuis.
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