Hellevoetsluis
Hellevoetsluis is a town and former municipality in the west of Netherlands. It is located in Voorne-Putten, South Holland. The former municipality covered an area of 61.20 km2 of which 20.10 km2 was water and it included the population centres of Nieuw-Helvoet, Nieuwenhoorn, and Oude en Nieuwe Struiten, all former municipalities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 38,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Voorne aan Zee, the Netherlands
- Postal codes: 3221-3225
Places of Interest
Highlights include HNLMS Buffel and Hellevoetsluis Dry Dock.
HNLMS Buffel
Museum
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 2.5.
HNLMS Buffel is a 19th-century ironclad ram ship. She was one of the main attractions of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, also known as the Prince Hendrik Museum, named after its founder, Prince Henry "The Navigator", who had a naval career and established the basis of the museum back in 1874.
Hellevoetsluis Dry Dock
Museum
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hellevoetsluis Dry Dock is a historic double dry dock in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands. It was constructed between 1798 and 1822 under the direction of Jan Blanken, and was part of the former Rijkswerf Hellevoetsluis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nieuw-Helvoet and Nieuwenhoorn.
Nieuw-Helvoet
Quarter
Nieuw-Helvoet is a former village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is now a neighbourhood in the north of the town of Hellevoetsluis. Nieuw-Helvoet was a separate municipality until 1960, when it became part of Hellevoetsluis.
Nieuwenhoorn
Suburb
Nieuwenhoorn is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located in the municipality of Voorne aan Zee, about 3 km north of Hellevoetsluis city centre.
Oudenhoorn
Village
Oudenhoorn is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is part of the municipality of Voorne aan Zee and lies about 3 km east of Hellevoetsluis. Oudenhoorn is situated 3½ km east of Hellevoetsluis.
Hellevoetsluis
- Categories: human settlement, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Voorne aan Zee, South Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.83392° or 51° 50′ 2″ northLongitude
4.14367° or 4° 8′ 37″ eastPopulation
38,700United Nations Location Code
NL HSLOpen location code
9F36R4MV+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2290698778OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2754454Wikidata ID
Q33444372
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Hellevoetsluis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هيليفوتسلاوس”
- Armenian: “Հելեֆուտսլաուս”
- Basque: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Catalan: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Cebuano: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Chinese: “赫勒富茨劳斯”
- Dutch: “Hellevoetsluis (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Hellevoetsluis”
- French: “Hellevoetsluis”
- German: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Hebrew: “הלפוטסלויס”
- Italian: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Javanese: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Kurdish: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Russian: “Хеллевутслёйс”
- Serbian: “Хелевутслојс”
- Spanish: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Swedish: “Hellevoetsluis”
- Ukrainian: “Геллевутслейс”
- Zeeuws: “Hellevoet”
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