Veendam Municipality
Veendam is a town and municipality with a population of 27,752 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. Veendam is also known as Parkstad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 27,500 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Gemeente Veendam” and “Veendam”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Veendam railway station and Veenkoloniaal Museum.
Veendam railway station
Railway station
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Veendam is an unstaffed railway station in Veendam in the Netherlands. It is located on the Stadskanaal–Zuidbroek railway after Zuidbroek as the present-day line terminus.
Veenkoloniaal Museum
Museum
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Veenkoloniaal Museum is a regional museum in the village of Veendam in the Netherlands. The museum shows not only the history of the peat district in Groningen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Veenkoloniën and Wildervank.
Veenkoloniën
The Veenkoloniën or Peat District is a region in the southeast of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. The region used to be uncultivated land, but starting in the 16th and 17th centuries the city of Groningen started to colonise more and more of the area for the extraction of peat, to be used as fuel.Wildervank
Village
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Wildervank is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Veendam, about 3 km south of the centre of Veendam itself.
Muntendam
Village
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Muntendam is a village in the municipality of Midden-Groningen, in the Dutch province of Groningen. The village has a population of 4,635. Muntendam had been an independent parish since the Middle Ages, but until 1840 it was ecclesiastically part of Zuidbroek. Muntendam is situated 5 km north of Veendam Municipality.
Veendam Municipality
- Location: Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Veendam Municipality” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Veendam”
- Albanian: “Veendam”
- Arabic: “فيندام”
- Armenian: “Վեյնդամ”
- Asturian: “Veendam”
- Balinese: “Veendam”
- Basque: “Veendam”
- Belarusian: “Вендам”
- Breton: “Veendam”
- Catalan: “Veendam”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Veendam”
- Chinese: “Veendam”
- Chinese: “維丹”
- Chinese: “芬丹”
- Czech: “Veendam”
- Dutch: “gemeente Veendam”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Veendam”
- Dutch: “Veendam (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Veendam”
- Esperanto: “Veendam”
- French: “Veendam”
- German: “Veendam”
- Greek: “Φένταμ”
- Hebrew: “ונדם”
- Hungarian: “Veendam”
- Indonesian: “Veendam”
- Irish: “Veendam”
- Italian: “Veendam”
- Japanese: “フェーンダム”
- Korean: “페인담”
- Kurdish: “Veendam”
- Limburgan: “Veendam”
- Lithuanian: “Vendamas”
- Low German: “Veendaam”
- Luxembourgish: “Veendam”
- Malay: “Veendam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Veendam”
- Minangkabau: “Veendam”
- Northern Frisian: “Veendam (Gemeend)”
- Northern Frisian: “Veendam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Veendam”
- Norwegian: “Veendam”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Veendam”
- Ossetian: “Вендам”
- Persian: “فیندام”
- Persian: “ویندم”
- Polish: “Veendam”
- Portuguese: “Veendam”
- Romanian: “Veendam”
- Russian: “Вендам”
- Saterfriesisch: “Veendam”
- Silesian: “Veendam”
- Slovak: “Veendam”
- Spanish: “Veendam”
- Swedish: “Veendam”
- Turkish: “Veendam”
- Ukrainian: “Вендам”
- Venetian: “Veendam”
- Vietnamese: “Veendam”
- Volapük: “Veendam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Veendam”
- Western Frisian: “Feandam”
- Zeeuws: “Veendam”
- Zeeuws: “Veêndam”
- “Veendam”
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