Heikant
Heikant is a hamlet in Tilburg, North Brabant. Heikant is situated nearby to the neighborhood Koolhoven, as well as near the village Hulten.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Tilburg-West, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “De Heikant”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tilburg Reeshof railway station and Gilze-Rijen Air Base.
Tilburg Reeshof railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tilburg Reeshof is a railway station located in the Reeshof in Tilburg, Netherlands. It is situated on the Breda–Eindhoven railway. The station was opened on 14 December 2003. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
Gilze-Rijen Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gilze-Rijen Air Base is a military airbase in the south of Netherlands. It is known for having the hottest temperature ever measured in the Netherlands, with a temperature of 40.7 °C, on July 25, 2019. Gilze-Rijen Air Base is situated 3½ km west of Heikant.
Gilze-Rijen railway station
Railway station
Photo: G.Lanting, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gilze-Rijen is a railway station located in Rijen, Netherlands in the municipality Gilze en Rijen. Although the railway station is located in Rijen, it's called Gilze-Rijen because of the Gilze-Rijen Air Base, just south of Rijen. Gilze-Rijen railway station is situated 4 km northwest of Heikant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reeshof and Rijen.
Reeshof
Suburb
The Reeshof, is a district of the municipality Tilburg in the Netherlands. The district has 42,696 inhabitants, which makes the Reeshof the largest district of Tilburg. The Reeshof mostly consists of new-built houses from 1980 or later. Reeshof is situated 2½ km northeast of Heikant.
Rijen
Town
Rijen is the largest place in the Dutch municipality of Gilze en Rijen. The city hall is located here. Rijen is situated north of the A58, between Breda and Tilburg. Surrounding places are: Dorst, Dongen and Oosterhout. Rijen is situated 4½ km northwest of Heikant.
Riel
Village
Riel is a village in the municipality of Goirle, south of Tilburg in the province of North Brabant. Until 1997 it belonged to the municipality Alphen en Riel. Riel is situated 6 km southeast of Heikant.
Heikant
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tilburg, North Brabant, Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.56357° or 51° 33′ 49″ northLongitude
4.97124° or 4° 58′ 17″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
9F36HX7C+CFOpenStreetMap ID
node 4421268287OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Min Nan Chinese—“Heikant” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Heikant”
- Dutch: “Heikant (Tilburg-West)”
- Dutch: “Heikant”
- Irish: “Heikant”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Heikant”
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