Balgoij
Balgoij or Balgoy is a village in Gelderland, Netherlands, near the river Meuse. It belongs to the Wijchen municipality. Until 1923, Balgoij was a separate municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 710 residents
- Description: village in Wijchen, Netherlands
- Postal code: 6613
Places of Interest
Highlights include John S. Thompson Bridge and Hampoort (Grave).
John S. Thompson Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Vdegroot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The John S. Thompsonbrug is a bridge over the Maas River between Grave and Nederasselt in the Netherlands.
Hampoort (Grave)
City gate
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hampoort (Grave) is a city gate, which is situated 3 km southeast of Balgoij.
Sint-Elisabethkerk
Church
Photo: Vdegroot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sint-Elisabethkerk is a church, which is situated 3 km southeast of Balgoij.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Velp and Nederasselt.
Velp
Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
Velp is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the former municipality of Grave, about 2 km southwest of the city. Until 1794, it was part of the Land van Ravenstein, a Catholic enclave of Palatinate-Neuburg within the Dutch Republic.
Nederasselt
Village
Nederasselt is a village in the municipality of Heumen in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.
Grave
Photo: Ben Bender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grave is a city and former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The former municipality had a population of 12,486 in 2021. Grave is a member of the Dutch Association of Fortified Cities.
Balgoij
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Wijchen, Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.78006° or 51° 46′ 48″ northLongitude
5.71505° or 5° 42′ 54″ eastPopulation
710Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
9F37QPJ8+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 43826828OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2759480Wikidata ID
Q976427
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Balgoij” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Balgoij”
- Bulgarian: “Балгой”
- Catalan: “Balgoij”
- Cebuano: “Balgoy”
- Chinese: “Balgoij”
- Dutch: “Balgoij”
- Dutch: “Balgoy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالجويچ”
- Esperanto: “Balgoij”
- French: “Balgoij”
- Irish: “Balgoij”
- Luxembourgish: “Balgoij”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Balgoij”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balgoij”
- Persian: “بالگوئیج”
- Russian: “Балгой”
- Turkish: “Balgoij”
- Ukrainian: “Балгой”
- Welsh: “Balgoij”
- Western Frisian: “Balgoij”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balgoij”. Photo: Adriaan Castermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.