Riel
Riel is a village in the municipality of Goirle, south of Tilburg in the province of North Brabant. Until 1997 it belonged to the municipality Alphen en Riel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,480 residents
- Description: village in Goirle, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Riel, Netherlands”
- Postal codes: 5051 and 5133
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heilige Antonius Abtkerk and Heilig Hartbeeld.
Koning Willem II Stadion
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Koning Willem II Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Tilburg, Netherlands, and the home ground of Willem II Tilburg. It is currently used mostly for football matches. Koning Willem II Stadion is situated 3½ km northeast of Riel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include ’t Zand, Alphen-Chaam and Gorp.
’t Zand, Alphen-Chaam
Hamlet
't Zand is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Brabant, in the municipality of Alphen-Chaam. It was first mentioned in 1980 and means sand. 't Zand is a villa ward and recreational site near Alphen. ’t Zand, Alphen-Chaam is situated 6 km southwest of Riel.
Gorp
Hamlet
Gorp is a hamlet in the municipality of Hilvarenbeek, in the south of the Netherlands near its border with Belgium. Once historically separate from Hilvarenbeek, it has become a de facto neighborhood of the larger town. Gorp is situated 6 km southeast of Riel.
Tilburg
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tilburg is a large city in southern Netherlands. It started to grow during the Industrial Revolution, when wool factories were set up, thus making it the wool city of the Netherlands.
Riel
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Goirle, North Brabant, Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.52584° or 51° 31′ 33″ northLongitude
5.02345° or 5° 1′ 24″ eastPopulation
2,480Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL RIEOpen location code
9F37G2GF+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 42913857OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Frisian—“Riel” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Riel”
- Cebuano: “Riel”
- Chinese: “Riel”
- Dutch: “Riel (Goirle)”
- Dutch: “Riel”
- French: “Riel”
- Irish: “Riel”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Riel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Riel”
- Russian: “Рил”
- Ukrainian: “Ріл”
- Western Frisian: “Riel (Goirle)”
- Western Frisian: “Riel”
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