Beek
Beek is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Berg en Dal, about 5 km east of Nijmegen. It was sometimes referred to as "Beek " or "Beek-Ubbergen" because there are several villages in the Netherlands called Beek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,650 residents
- Description: village in Berg en Dal, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Beek, Berg en Dal”
- Postal code: 6573
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lower Rhine Heights and Duivelsberg.
Lower Rhine Heights
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lower Rhine Heights is a hill ridge which, with several interruptions, stretches in a broad arc through the Lower Rhine Plain from Krefeld to Nijmegen, between the valley of the Rhine in the east and that of the Niers in the west.
Duivelsberg
Peak
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
Duivelsberg is a hill and nature reserve in the municipality of Berg en Dal in the Dutch province of Gelderland, near the border with Germany. It is politically significant, however, because Duivelsberg is the only part of the Netherlands that was both annexed from Germany after World War II and retained to the present day.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berg en Dal and Ubbergen.
Berg en Dal
Village
Berg en Dal is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located to the southeast of the city of Nijmegen. The village lies in the municipality of Berg en Dal.
Ubbergen
Village
Photo: Arjandb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Ubbergen is a village and former municipality in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. On 1 January 2015 it merged into the enlarged municipality of Groesbeek, renamed Berg en Dal from 1 January 2016.
Heilig Landstichting
Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Heilig Landstichting is a village in the eastern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Berg en Dal, Gelderland, near Nijmegen. Its best known attraction is the Museumpark Orientalis, the former Holy Land Museum. Heilig Landstichting is situated 2½ km southwest of Beek.
Beek
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Berg en Dal Municipality, Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.82887° or 51° 49′ 44″ northLongitude
5.92462° or 5° 55′ 29″ eastPopulation
3,650Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
9F37RWHF+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 5544031874OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2759345Wikidata ID
Q726635
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Beek” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Beek”
- Catalan: “Beek”
- Cebuano: “Beek”
- Chinese: “Beek”
- Dutch: “Beek-Ubbergen”
- Dutch: “Beek”
- Esperanto: “Beek”
- French: “Beek”
- German: “Beek-Ubbergen”
- German: “Beek”
- Irish: “Beek”
- Luxembourgish: “Beek”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beek”
- Persian: “بییک”
- Spanish: “Beek”
- Ukrainian: “Бек”
- Welsh: “Beek”
- Western Frisian: “Beek (Berg en Dal)”
- Western Frisian: “Beek”
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