Persingen
Persingen is a village situated in the municipality of Berg en Dal in the province of Gelderland. In 2021, Persingen had 105 inhabitants. The village claims to be the smallest village of the Netherlands for tourist reasons, however there are many more contestants who are much smaller; the former island of Schokland and the former squatter village of Ruigoord have the best credentials.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 105 residents
- Description: village in Berg en Dal, Netherlands
- Postal code: 6575
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lower Rhine Heights and Sint Maartenskliniek.
Lower Rhine Heights
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lower Rhine Heights is a hill ridge which, with several interruptions, stretches in a broad arc through the Lower Rhine Plain from Krefeld to Nijmegen, between the valley of the Rhine in the east and that of the Niers in the west.
Africa Museum
Museum
Photo: Rokus Cornelis, CC BY 3.0.
The Africa Museum was a museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands. The museum on the outskirts of the city of Nijmegen was a complex with indoor as well as open-air display areas, covering art, culture, music, photographs, videos and architecture of Africa. Africa Museum is situated 3½ km south of Persingen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ubbergen and Beek.
Ubbergen
Village
Photo: Arjandb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Ubbergen is a village and former municipality in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. On 1 January 2015 it merged into the enlarged municipality of Groesbeek, renamed Berg en Dal from 1 January 2016.
Beek
Village
Beek is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Berg en Dal, about 5 km east of Nijmegen. It was sometimes referred to as "Beek " or "Beek-Ubbergen" because there are several villages in the Netherlands called Beek.
Berg en Dal
Village
Berg en Dal is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located to the southeast of the city of Nijmegen. The village lies in the municipality of Berg en Dal.
Persingen
- Categories: village, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Berg en Dal Municipality, Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.84129° or 51° 50′ 29″ northLongitude
5.91837° or 5° 55′ 6″ eastPopulation
105Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
9F37RWR9+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 44054123OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2748646Wikidata ID
Q577822
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Persingen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Persingen”
- Asturian: “Persingen”
- Catalan: “Persingen”
- Chinese: “Persingen”
- Dutch: “Persingen”
- French: “Persingen”
- Irish: “Persingen”
- Luxembourgish: “Persingen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Persingen”
- Ukrainian: “Персінген”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ooij and Wercheren.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kerkje van Persingen and Heilig bronnetje.
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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 “Persingen”. Photo: Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0.