Buitenpost
Buitenpost is a village in north-east Friesland in the Netherlands. It lies approximately halfway between the cities of Leeuwarden and Groningen, in the northern part of the municipality of Achtkarspelen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,760 residents
- Description: village in Achtkarspelen, Netherlands
- Postal code: 9285
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buitenpost railway station and De Mûnts.
Buitenpost railway station
Railway station
Photo: Maurits90, Public domain.
Buitenpost is a railway station located in Buitenpost, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 June 1866 and is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between Leeuwarden and Groningen. The station is currently operated by Arriva.
De Mûnts
Windmill
Photo: Theun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De Mûnts is a smock mill in Buitenpost, Friesland, Netherlands which has been restored to working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 7039.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Augsbuert-Lytsewâld and Feankleaster.
Augsbuert-Lytsewâld
Hamlet
Photo: Brbbl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Augsbuert-Lytsewâld is a small village in the Dutch province of Friesland. It is in the municipality Noardeast-Fryslân, about 1 km southeast of the town of Kollum.
Feankleaster
Village
Photo: Hardscarf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Feankleaster is a small village in Noardeast-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands, with a population of around 97 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland municipality. Feankleaster is situated 3 km northwest of Buitenpost.
Kollum
Town
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Kollum is a village in Noardeast-Fryslân municipality in the province Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 5529 in January 2017. There is a restored windmill, Tochmaland in the village. Kollum is situated 3 km north of Buitenpost.
Buitenpost
Latitude
53.25404° or 53° 15′ 15″ northLongitude
6.14423° or 6° 8′ 39″ eastPopulation
5,760Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL BUIOpen location code
9F58743V+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 48286375OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Buitenpost” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Buitenpost”
- Arabic: “باوتنبوست”
- Bulgarian: “Буитенпост”
- Catalan: “Buitenpost”
- Cebuano: “Buitenpost”
- Chinese: “Buitenpost”
- Chinese: “伯伊滕波斯”
- Dutch: “Buitenpost”
- Esperanto: “Buitenpost”
- French: “Buitenpost”
- German: “Buitenpost”
- Irish: “Buitenpost”
- Japanese: “バイテンポスト”
- Lithuanian: “Betenpostas”
- Low German: “Butenpost”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buitenpost”
- Northern Frisian: “Bûtenpost”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buitenpost”
- Persian: “بایتنپست”
- Persian: “بیتنپست”
- Romanian: “Buitenpost”
- Russian: “Бёйтенпост”
- Swedish: “Buitenpost”
- Turkish: “Buitenpost”
- Ukrainian: “Бейтенпост”
- Western Frisian: “Bûtenpost”
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