Buiksloot
Buiksloot is a former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is now a neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord. Buiksloot was a separate municipality from 1811 until 1921, when it was merged with Amsterdam.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Banne Buiksloot”
Places of Interest
Highlights include BovenIJ Ziekenhuis and Metropolitan Region Amsterdam.
Metropolitan Region Amsterdam
Government office
Photo: Swimmerguy269, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Metropolitan Region Amsterdam is the city region around the city of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. It lies in the Noordvleugel of the larger polycentric Randstad conurbation area and encompasses the city of Amsterdam as well as 36 further municipalities within the two provinces of North Holland and Flevoland, with a total population of over 2.5 million inhabitants.
Buiksloterkerk
Theater building
Photo: Ron de Muijnck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buiksloterkerk is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Floradorp and Noord.
Floradorp
Neighborhood
Floradorp is a neighborhood of Amsterdam-Noord, Netherlands in the Dutch province of North Holland. The neighborhood is bordered in the north by the Buiksloterdijk, in the east by the Noorderpark and the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, in the west by the Klaprozenweg and in the south by the Sneeuwbalstraat in the Bloemenbuurt.
Noord
Photo: Jos van Zetten, CC BY 2.0.
Noord is the borough of Amsterdam north of the IJ. It is a residential district, and with about 86,000 inhabitants, it is a medium-sized city. This district has remained well off the radar among tourists visiting Amsterdam, so amenities are not well-developed.
Buiksloot
- Categories: neighborhood, village, polder, and municipality of the Netherlands
- Location: Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Buiksloot” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Buiksloot”
- Breton: “Buiksloot”
- Catalan: “Buiksloot”
- Chinese: “Buiksloot”
- Dutch: “Buiksloot”
- Dutch: “Polder Buiksloot”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بويكسلوت”
- Esperanto: “Buiksloot”
- French: “Buiksloot”
- German: “Buiksloot”
- Irish: “Buiksloot”
- Italian: “Buiksloot”
- Japanese: “ブイクスロート”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buiksloot”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buiksloot”
- Persian: “بیوکسولوت”
- Turkish: “Buiksloot”
- Welsh: “Buiksloot”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Noorderbegraafplaats and D’Admiraal.
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