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Niezijl

Niezijl, historically Bomsterzijl, is a in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of in the . The village is located between and on the N355, the trunk highway from to .
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  • Type: Village with 430 residents
  • Description: village in Westerkwartier, Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 9841 and 9842

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grijpskerk railway station and Grijpskerk church.

Railway station
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Grijpskerk is an unstaffed railway station in , . It is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between and . The station was opened on 1 June 1866. The train service is operated by Arriva.

Church
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Windmill
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is a windmill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grijpskerk and Kommerzijl.

Village
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is a village in the province of . It is located in the municipality of Westerkwartier, about 18 km west of the city of Groningen. was a separate municipality until 1990, when it was merged with .

Village
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, until the end of the 17th century called Opslachterzijl, is a linear village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of in the , located on the Kommerzijlsterdiep, which continues after the village as Kommerzijlsterriet and flows into the Reitdiep.

Village
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is a in the municipality of Westerkwartier in , . The village was located on the island of Humsterland in the former Lauwerszee from c. is situated 3½ km northeast of Niezijl.

Niezijl

Latitude
53.26685° or 53° 16′ 1″ north
Longitude
6.33929° or 6° 20′ 22″ east
Population
430
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL NZI
Open location code
9F58788Q+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 48306336
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2750110
Wiki­data ID
Q1882633
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Niezijl” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Niezijl”
  • Catalan: “Niezijl”
  • Chinese: “Niezijl”
  • Dutch: “Niezijl”
  • French: “Niezijl”
  • Irish: “Niezijl”
  • Japanese: “ニーゼイル”
  • Luxembourgish: “Niezijl”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niezijl”
  • Ukrainian: “Нізейл”
  • Western Frisian: “Nijesyl”

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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 “Niezijl”. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.