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Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a city in , , and has about 96,500 residents. Alkmaar is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .
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  • Type: City with 96,500 residents
  • Description: city in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 1811-1817 and 1821-1827

Places of Interest

Highlights include AFAS Stadion and Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk.

Stadium
Photo: Jesperverbruggen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a stadium in , . It is used for football matches and is the home stadium of AZ Alkmaar. AZ's women's team also plays select matches in the stadium.

Museum
Photo: G.Lanting, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Reformed Protestant church in , . At present, it is not used for church services; it is mostly closed in the winter and open for tourists in the summer months or by appointment.

Railway station
Photo: T Houdijk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the town of , . It is located approximately 40 km northwest of Amsterdam. The station opened on 20 December 1865 and is located on the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heiloo and Bergen.

Photo: Heiloo, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality and town in the , located in the province of . The community is part of the cooperation region and is located in the historical region of West Friesland. had a population of 24,144 in 2021.

Photo: Henk Monster, CC BY 3.0.
is an artist village and upper-income suburb in , popular among travellers for its seaside beaches and dunes. A few kilometers further north are the villages of Schoorl and Groet, both near enough to walk from , with the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve as its main tourist attraction.

Photo: Ben Bender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the municipality of in the province of , the .

Alkmaar

Latitude
52.6313° or 52° 37′ 53″ north
Longitude
4.7504° or 4° 45′ 1″ east
Population
96,500
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL ALK
Open location code
9F46JQJ2+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3474142743
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2759899
Wiki­data ID
Q16977290
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Alkmaar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آلكمار”
  • Arabic: “ألكمار”
  • Armenian: “Ալկմար”
  • Belarusian: “Алкмар”
  • Bengali: “আল্কমার”
  • Catalan: “Alkmaar”
  • Cebuano: “Alkmaar (lungsod sa Olandres)”
  • Cebuano: “Alkmaar”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەڵکمار”
  • Chinese: “阿尔克马尔”
  • Czech: “Alkmaar”
  • Danish: “Alkmaar”
  • Dutch: “Alkmaar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آلكمار”
  • Finnish: “Alkmaar”
  • French: “Alkmaar”
  • Galician: “Alkmaar”
  • German: “Alkmaar”
  • Greek: “Αλκμαάρ”
  • Greek: “Άλκμααρ”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્કમાર”
  • Hebrew: “אלקמאר”
  • Hindi: “अल्कमार”
  • Hungarian: “Alkmaar”
  • Indonesian: “Alkmaar”
  • Irish: “Alkmaar”
  • Italian: “Alkmaar”
  • Japanese: “アルクマール”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಕ್ಮಾರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Алкмар”
  • Korean: “알크마르”
  • Latvian: “Alkmāra”
  • Limburgan: “Alkmaar”
  • Lithuanian: “Alkmaaras”
  • Lithuanian: “Alkmaras”
  • Malay: “Alkmaar”
  • Marathi: “अल्कमार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alkmaar”
  • Persian: “آلکمار”
  • Polish: “Alkmaar”
  • Portuguese: “Alkmaar”
  • Romanian: “Alkmaar”
  • Russian: “Алкмаар”
  • Russian: “Алкмар”
  • Serbian: “Алкмар”
  • Sinhala: “අල්ක්මාර්”
  • Slovenian: “Alkmaar”
  • Spanish: “Alkmaar”
  • Swedish: “Alkmaar”
  • Tamil: “அல்கமாற்”
  • Telugu: “అల్కమార్”
  • Thai: “อัคมาร์”
  • Turkish: “Alkmar”
  • Ukrainian: “Алкмар”
  • Urdu: “الکمار”
  • Vietnamese: “Alkmaar”
  • Welsh: “Alkmaar”
  • Western Frisian: “Alkmar”
  • Zeeuws: “Alkmaer”
  • “Alkmaar”

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