Veendam
Veendam is a town in Veendam Municipality, Groningen and has about 19,900 residents. Veendam is situated nearby to the village Wildervank, as well as near Ommelanderwijk.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 19,900 residents
- Description: town in the municipality of Veendam, Netherlands
- Postal codes: 9641, 9642, and 9644-9646
Places of Interest
Highlights include Veenkoloniaal Museum and Veendam railway station.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wildervank and Borgercompagnie.
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.
Borgercompagnie
Village
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Borgercompagnie is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It consists of a single street with farms and houses on both sides. The village is about 7 km long. Borgercompagnie is situated 3½ km west of Veendam.
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 3½ km north of Veendam.
Veendam
- Categories: village, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Veendam Municipality, Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.10284° or 53° 6′ 10″ northLongitude
6.86949° or 6° 52′ 10″ eastPopulation
19,900Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL VDMOpen location code
9F584V39+4QOpenStreetMap ID
node 47954167OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Veendam” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Veendam”
- Catalan: “Veendam”
- Cebuano: “Veendam”
- Chinese: “Veendam”
- Czech: “Veendam”
- Danish: “Veendam”
- Dutch: “Veendam (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Veendam”
- Faroese: “Veendam”
- French: “Veendam”
- Hebrew: “ונדם”
- Irish: “Veendam”
- Kalaallisut: “Veendam”
- Lithuanian: “Vendamas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Veendam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Veendam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Veendam”
- Russian: “Вендам”
- Swedish: “Veendam”
- Ukrainian: “Вендам”
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