Northern Netherlands
Friesland
Leeuwarden

Stiens

Stiens is a town in the municipality of , . As of January 2017, the town had a population of about 7,545. Between 1944 and 2018, it was the capital of the municipality of Leeuwarderadeel.
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  • Type: Town with 7,550 residents
  • Description: village in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • Postal code: 9051

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sint-Vituskerk, Stiens and De Hoop.

Church
Photo: Bouwe Brouwer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Windmill
Photo: TUFOWKTM, CC BY 3.0.
is a smock mill in Stiens, , which was rebuilt in 1993 after the earlier mill burned down. It is operational and manned by volunteers.

Building
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is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Britsum and Finkum.

Village
Photo: Melda Wibawa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the municipality of , in the . was built on an artificial bank running along the eastern side of the former Middelzee.

Village
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Feinsum is a village in municipality in the province of , the . It had a population of around 165 in January 2017. There is a restored , the Slagdijkstermolen.

Village
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in the municipality of , in the . The village is situated between Jelsum and and a population of around 370 in January 2017.

Stiens

Latitude
53.26075° or 53° 15′ 39″ north
Longitude
5.76421° or 5° 45′ 51″ east
Population
7,550
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL STN
Open location code
9F577Q67+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5589172618
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2746705
Wiki­data ID
Q1915794
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Zeeuws—“Stiens” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Стиенс”
  • Catalan: “Stiens”
  • Cebuano: “Stiens”
  • Chinese: “Stiens”
  • Dutch: “Stiens”
  • Esperanto: “Stiens”
  • French: “Stiens”
  • Irish: “Stiens”
  • Italian: “Stiens”
  • Lithuanian: “Stinsas”
  • Low German: “Stiens”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Stiens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stiens”
  • Persian: “استینس”
  • Polish: “Stiens”
  • Russian: “Стинс”
  • Slovenian: “Stiens”
  • Turkish: “Stiens”
  • Ukrainian: “Стінс”
  • Western Frisian: “Stiens”
  • Zeeuws: “Stiens”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stiens”. Photo: Jan dijkstra, CC BY-SA 3.0.