Dirksland
Dirksland is a village and former municipality on Goeree-Overflakkee Island in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The former municipality had a population of about 8,000 in 2007, and covered an area of about 74 km2 of which about 19 km2 was water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lidewij C J., CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 6,130 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands
- Postal code: 3247
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Dirksland and De Eendracht.
Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Dirksland
Church
Photo: Lidewij C J., CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Dirksland is a church.
Streekmuseum Goeree-Overflakkee
Museum
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Streekmuseum Goeree-Overflakkee is established in seven small houses dating back to the seventeenth century, in the old village of Sommelsdijk in the Netherlands. Streekmuseum Goeree-Overflakkee is situated 3½ km east of Dirksland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melissant and Sommelsdijk.
Melissant
Village
Melissant is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located on the island Goeree-Overflakkee, in the municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee. Melissant is situated 3½ km northwest of Dirksland.
Sommelsdijk
Village
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sommelsdijk is a village on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee, South Holland, the Netherlands, and part of the municipality of the same name. Sommelsdijk has 7,195 inhabitants which makes it the second largest settlement after Middelharnis on the island. Sommelsdijk is situated 3½ km east of Dirksland.
Herkingen
Village
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Herkingen is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located on the south coast of the island Goeree-Overflakkee, in the municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee. Herkingen is situated 4½ km south of Dirksland.
Dirksland
Latitude
51.74806° or 51° 44′ 53″ northLongitude
4.10147° or 4° 6′ 5″ eastPopulation
6,130Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Inception
1416United Nations Location Code
NL DRKOpen location code
9F36P4X2+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 43737595OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2756787Wikidata ID
Q917827
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Dirksland” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Dirksland”
- Armenian: “Դիրկսլանդ”
- Asturian: “Dirksland”
- Basque: “Dirksland”
- Bulgarian: “Дирксланд”
- Catalan: “Dirksland”
- Cebuano: “Dirksland”
- Chinese: “Dirksland”
- Chinese: “迪尔克斯兰”
- Chinese: “迪爾克斯蘭”
- Dutch: “Dirksland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديركسلاند”
- Esperanto: “Dirksland”
- French: “Dirksland”
- German: “Dirksland”
- Indonesian: “Dirksland”
- Irish: “Dirksland”
- Italian: “Dirksland”
- Japanese: “ディルクスラント”
- Javanese: “Dirksland”
- Limburgan: “Dirksland”
- Lithuanian: “Dirkslandas”
- Luxembourgish: “Dirksland”
- Malay: “Dirksland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dirksland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dirksland”
- Persian: “دیرکسلاند”
- Portuguese: “Dirksland”
- Romanian: “Dirksland”
- Russian: “Дирксланд”
- Swedish: “Dirksland”
- Turkish: “Dirksland”
- Ukrainian: “Дірксланд”
- Vietnamese: “Dirksland”
- Volapük: “Dirksland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dirksland”
- Welsh: “Dirksland”
- Western Armenian: “Տիրքսլանտ”
- Zeeuws: “Dirksland”
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