Oostvaardersplassen
The Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve in Flevoland, the Netherlands, managed by the Staatsbosbeheer. Covering about 56 square kilometres in the province of Flevoland, it is an experiment in rewilding.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: nature reserve in the Netherlands near Amsterdam
- Also known as: “Oostvaardersdiep”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Almere Buiten and Lelystad-Haven.
Almere Buiten
Suburb
Almere Buiten is a district in the municipality of Almere in the Dutch province of Flevoland. The district houses 56,760 residents as of 2023. Almere Buiten is made up of the following neighbourhoods: Bloemenbuurt, Bouwmeesterbuurt, Eilandenbuurt, Faunabuurt, Landgoederenbuurt, Molenbuurt, Oostvaardersbuurt, Regenboogbuurt, Stripheldenbuurt, Seizoenenbuurt, Indischebuurt and Sieradenbuurt.
Lelystad-Haven
Quarter
Lelystad-Haven is a quarter, which is situated 8 km northeast of Oostvaardersplassen.
Oostvaardersplassen
- Categories: Special Protection Area, protected area, nature area, Natura 2000 site, and recreation area
- Location: Flevoland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.45188° or 52° 27′ 7″ north
Longitude
5.33812° or 5° 20′ 17″ east
Elevation
-5 metres (-16 feet)
Operator
Open location code
9F47F82Q+Q6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Oostvaardersplassen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Aragonese: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Arpitan: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Asturian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Basque: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Bavarian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Breton: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Bulgarian: “Оствардерспласен”
- Catalan: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Cebuano: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Chinese: “東法爾德斯普拉森”
- Corsican: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Croatian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Czech: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Danish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Dutch: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Esperanto: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Estonian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Finnish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- French: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Friulian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Galician: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- German: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Greek: “Όοστφαρντερσπλασεν”
- Hungarian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Icelandic: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Ido: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Indonesian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Interlingua: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Interlingue: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Irish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Italian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Japanese: “オーストファールデルスプラセン”
- Kongo: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Latin: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Ligurian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Limburgan: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Low German: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Luxembourgish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
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- Malay: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Minangkabau: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Narom: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Neapolitan: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Picard: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Piemontese: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Polish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Portuguese: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Romanian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Romansh: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Russian: “Оствардерсплассе”
- Sardinian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Scots: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Serbian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Sicilian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Slovak: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Slovenian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Spanish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
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- Swedish: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Swiss German: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Venetian: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Vietnamese: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Vlaams: “Oostvaardersplassen”
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- Walloon: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Welsh: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Wolof: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- Zulu: “Oostvaardersplassen”
- “Oostvaardersplassen”
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