Western Netherlands
North Holland
Wormerland

Neck

Neck is a village in the northwest . It is located in the municipality of , , about 3 km west of . The village was first mentioned in 1328 as "sic: van Hicke", and means "neck" which refers to the narrowest point of the waterway separating the from the .
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  • Type: Village with 960 residents
  • Description: hamlet in Wormerland, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Neck, Netherlands” and “Neck, North Holland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Neckermolen and Beemster Arboretum.

House
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a house.

Park
Photo: Hobbema, CC0.
is a park.

Railway station
Photo: Sneeuwvlakte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Purmerend Weidevenne is a suburban railway station, in the estate in , . The station opened on 9 December 2007 and is on the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway. The official opening of the station was on 8 December 2007.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wijdewormer and Weidevenne.

Village
is a hamlet in the province of . It is located in the municipality of , about 5 km east of the town of , in the polder "De Wijde Wormer".

Quarter
is a district of in the , west of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal across from the De Gors district. Its 14,451 inhabitants mainly live in terraced houses.

Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
is a town in the west of the in the former municipality of , . It is located about 1 km northwest of .

Neck

Latitude
52.50806° or 52° 30′ 29″ north
Longitude
4.91493° or 4° 54′ 54″ east
Population
960
Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL NEC
Open location code
9F46GW57+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7170593066
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2750491
Wiki­data ID
Q1860195
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Neck” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Neck”
  • Cebuano: “Neck”
  • Chinese: “Neck”
  • Dutch: “Neck”
  • French: “Neck”
  • German: “Neck”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neck”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Neck”
  • Persian: “نک”
  • Polish: “Neck”
  • Ukrainian: “Нек”

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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 “Neck”. Photo: Arch, Public domain.