South Holland
Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region
Rotterdam

Heijplaat

Heijplaat is a neighborhood of , . Based on garden village design principles, the planning of the area was started in 1913 using funds from the 1902 Housing Act.
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  • Type: Quarter with 1,400 residents
  • Description: village in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “De Heij”, “De Heiplaat”, “Hei”, “Heiplaat”, “Hey”, “Hyplaat”, and “Tuindorp Heyplaat”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elim Church and Courzand.

Church
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Café
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is a café.

College
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is a college.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schiemond and Nieuw-Mathenesse.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of , . a postwar district in the west of the city with approximately 3,500 inhabitants. The district is bounded to the east by the port of , in the south by the Nieuwe Maas, in the west by the port areas of IJselhaven and Pelgrimsstraat and Westzeedijk in the north.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood of , .

Village
is a neighborhood and submunicipality of , . The district has a population of 4,845 on a total area size of 1.60 km2. is thus a full submunicipality of Rotterdam, but the former independent municipality had its own district council already.

Heijplaat

Latitude
51.89122° or 51° 53′ 28″ north
Longitude
4.42191° or 4° 25′ 19″ east
Population
1,400
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL HIJ
Open location code
9F36VCRC+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5312148538
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
2754552
Wiki­data ID
Q1950159
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Heijplaat” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Heijplaat”
  • Dutch: “Heijplaat”
  • Limburgan: “Heijplaat”
  • Persian: “هایپلت”
  • Turkish: “Heijplaat”

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Highlights include Buurtvereniging Heijplaat and Sint-Bonifatius.

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