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Houten

Houten is a municipality in the , in the province of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Houten railway station and Houten Castellum railway station.

Railway station
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Houten is a railway station located in Houten, . The station was opened on 1 November 1868 and is located on the Utrecht–Boxtel railway and the Houten - Houten Castellum tram line which closed on 14 December 2008.

Railway station
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Houten Castellum is a railway station located in Houten, , which opened at 8 January 2001 and it is located on the Utrecht–Boxtel railway. Originally it was the southernmost point of the Houten - Houten Castellum tram line.

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is a square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bunnik and Nieuwegein.

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is a town of 15,000 people in the southeast of , the Netherlands. Chief interests of are its surrounding nature, consisting mainly of forests, farmlands and the Kromme Rijn; and the fortresses of the Hollandic Water Line: Fort bij Vechten and Fort bij Rhijnauwen.

Town
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is a municipality and city in the province of . It is bordered on the north by the city of , the provincial capital. It is separated from to the south by the river and borders on in the southwest and Houten in the east. is situated 5 km west of Houten.

Quarter
is a in the southeastern part of the city of , that has approximately 12.000 inhabitants. It is mainly a residential area, since there is no significant industry present. is situated 4½ km northwest of Houten.

Houten

Latitude
52.0271° or 52° 1′ 38″ north
Longitude
5.1621° or 5° 9′ 43″ east
Population
46,100
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
9F4725G6+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44956610
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2753556
Wiki­data ID
Q10044
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Houten” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Houten”
  • Albanian: “Houten”
  • Arabic: “هاوتن”
  • Armenian: “Հաուտեն”
  • Asturian: “Houten”
  • Balinese: “Houten”
  • Basque: “Houten”
  • Bavarian: “Houten”
  • Catalan: “Houten”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Houten”
  • Chinese: “豪滕”
  • Czech: “Houten”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Houten”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Houten”
  • Dutch: “Houten (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Houten”
  • Esperanto: “Houten”
  • French: “Houten”
  • Georgian: “ჰოუტენი”
  • German: “Houten”
  • Hebrew: “האוטן”
  • Hungarian: “Houten”
  • Indonesian: “Houten”
  • Irish: “Houten”
  • Italian: “Houten”
  • Japanese: “ハウテン”
  • Korean: “하우턴”
  • Kurdish: “Houten”
  • Limburgan: “Houten”
  • Lithuanian: “Houtenas”
  • Low German: “Houten”
  • Luxembourgish: “Houten”
  • Macedonian: “Хаутен”
  • Malay: “Houten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Houten”
  • Norwegian: “Houten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Houten”
  • Persian: “هاتن”
  • Persian: “هوتن (شهر)”
  • Polish: “Houten”
  • Portuguese: “Houten (Países Baixos)”
  • Portuguese: “Houten”
  • Romanian: “Houten”
  • Russian: “Хаутен”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Houten”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Houten”
  • Spanish: “Houten”
  • Swedish: “Houten”
  • Turkish: “Houten”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаутен (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаутен”
  • Venetian: “Houten”
  • Vietnamese: “Houten”
  • Vlaams: “Houten”
  • Volapük: “Houten”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Houten”
  • Western Frisian: “Houten”
  • Zeeuws: “Houten”
  • Zeeuws: “Outen”

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