Castricum

Castricum is a locality in , , and has about 35,300 residents. Castricum is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
  • Type: Locality with 35,300 residents
  • Description: town in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: Kastrikum
  • Postal codes: 1901 and 1902

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dorpskerk and Castricum railway station.

Church
is a church.

Museum
is the archaeology information centre and repository of the province of , which was opened in early 2015. It was named after a model and facial reconstruction that was made of a skeletal find from the 4th century and that came to be known as Hilde.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bakkum and Noorddorp.

Village
is a village in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of and lies about 12 km southwest of . It has three satellites: the village of Bakkum-Noord, the hamlet Noord and aan Zee which is nowadays called Castricum aan Zee.

Hamlet
is a hamlet, which is situated 3 km southwest of Castricum.

Village
is a town in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of , and is situated about 9 km southwest of . Before 2002 it was a separate municipality. is situated 3 km northeast of Castricum.

Castricum

Latitude
52.54833° or 52° 32′ 54″ north
Longitude
4.66944° or 4° 40′ 10″ east
Population
35,300
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL CAS
Open location code
9F46GMX9+8Q
Geo­Names ID
2757991
Wiki­data ID
Q33429472
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Castricum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Castricum
  • Arabic: كاستركوم
  • Armenian: Կաստրիկում
  • Catalan: Castricum
  • Cebuano: Castricum
  • Chinese: 卡斯特里克姆
  • Danish: Castricum
  • Dutch: Castricum (plaats)
  • Dutch: Castricum
  • Faroese: Castricum
  • French: Castricum
  • German: Castricum
  • Indonesian: Castricum
  • Irish: Castricum
  • Italian: Castricum
  • Japanese: カストリクム
  • Limburgan: Castricum
  • Luxembourgish: Castricum
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Castricum
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Castricum
  • Russian: Кастрикюм
  • Swedish: Castricum
  • Ukrainian: Кастрікюм
  • Castricum

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