Ballum
Ballum is a village on the western half of the island of Ameland and the smallest of the total of four villages on the island, one of the West Frisian Islands and part of the Netherlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 425 residents
- Description: village in Ameland, Netherlands
- Postal code: 9162
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zonnepark Ameland and De Verwachting.
Zonnepark Ameland
Power station
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Zonnepark Ameland is a power station.
De Verwachting
Windmill
Photo: Josjojo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De Verwachting is a smock mill in Hollum, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1991 and is in working order. De Verwachting is situated 3½ km west of Ballum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hollum and Nes.
Hollum
Village
Hollum is the largest village on Ameland, Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands. It is situated on the westernmost part of the island and had, as of January 2017, a population of 1,165. Hollum is situated 3½ km west of Ballum.
Nes
Village
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Nes is the second largest village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands in the northern Netherlands. It constitutes the main village of the eastern, Roman Catholic part of Ameland and had a population of 1,155 as of January 2017. Nes is situated 5 km east of Ballum.
Buren
Village
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Buren is the easternmost village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands and part of the Netherlands. Buren had, as of January 2017, a population of 715. Buren is situated 7 km east of Ballum.
Ballum
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Ameland, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.44357° or 53° 26′ 37″ northLongitude
5.68687° or 5° 41′ 13″ eastPopulation
425Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
9F57CMVP+CPOpenStreetMap ID
node 48489406OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2759456Wikidata ID
Q771118
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Western Frisian—“Ballum” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Балум”
- Catalan: “Ballum”
- Cebuano: “Ballum”
- Chinese: “Ballum”
- Danish: “Ballum”
- Dutch: “Ballum”
- Faroese: “Ballum”
- French: “Ballum”
- German: “Ballum”
- Icelandic: “Ballum”
- Irish: “Ballum”
- Japanese: “バルム”
- Kalaallisut: “Ballum”
- Low German: “Ballum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ballum”
- Northern Frisian: “Ballum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ballum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballum”
- Persian: “بالوم”
- Romanian: “Ballum”
- Russian: “Баллюм”
- Swedish: “Ballum”
- Ukrainian: “Баллюм”
- Western Frisian: “Ballum”
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