Hondsrug
The Hondsrug is a Dutch ridge of sand that is mainly located in the province Drenthe and partly in the province Groningen. The spur of the Hondsrug in Groningen has led to the creation of various villages build on artificial dwelling hills: Adorp, Sauwerd, Wetsinge, Winsum, Baflo, Rasquert, Warffum, Usquert, Rottum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Willibrordkerk and Hunebedden Centrum Borger.
Hunebedden Centrum Borger
Museum
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Hunebedden Centrum Borger is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borger and Westdorp.
Borger
Town
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Borger is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, and lies about 18 km east of Assen. The hunebed dolmen D27 is the biggest hunebed of the Netherlands and has its own museum.
Westdorp
Hamlet
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Westdorp is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, and lies about 17 km northwest of Emmen.
Ees
Village
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Ees is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, and lies about 17 km north of Emmen. The village was first mentioned in 1263 as de Ese, and means "farmland around a village".
Hondsrug
- Type: Region
- Description: Dutch sand of ridge
- Categories: area and hill chain
- Location: Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Hondsrug” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hondsrug”
- Catalan: “Hondsrug”
- Chinese: “洪兹吕赫”
- Chinese: “洪斯吕赫”
- Chinese: “洪斯呂赫”
- Chinese: “洪斯魯赫”
- Chinese: “洪斯鲁赫”
- Dutch: “Bisschopsrug”
- Dutch: “Hondsrug”
- Esperanto: “Hondsrug”
- French: “Hondsrug”
- German: “Drenther Erhebung”
- German: “Hondsrug”
- Italian: “Hondsrug”
- Japanese: “ホンツリュフ”
- Japanese: “ホンツルフ”
- Low German: “Hondsrog”
- Low German: “Hondsrug”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hondsrug”
- Western Frisian: “Hûnsrich”
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