Afsluitdijk
The Afsluitdijk is a major dam and causeway in the Netherlands. It was constructed between 1927 and 1932 and runs from Den Oever in North Holland province to the village of Zurich in Friesland province, over a length of 32 kilometres and a width of 90 metres…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dike
- Description: levee and causeway in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Abschlussdeich des IJsselmeers”, “Digue du Nord”, “IJsselmeer Dam”, “Outer Dike”, “Ysselmeer Dam”, and “Zuiderzee Dam”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breezanddijk and Kornwerderzand.
Breezanddijk
Hamlet
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Breezanddijk is a small community that lies near the midpoint of the Afsluitdijk, part of the A7 motorway, in the Netherlands. It is located on a former artificial island which was created during the construction of the dam, and it belongs to the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, in Friesland province. Breezanddijk is situated 3½ km southwest of Afsluitdijk.
Kornwerderzand
Village
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Kornwerderzand is a village on the Afsluitdijk, a major dam in the Netherlands that links Friesland with North Holland. Kornwerderzand is situated 7 km northeast of Afsluitdijk.
Afsluitdijk
- Category: dam
- Location: Southwest Friesland, Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Afsluitdijk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Afsluitdyk”
- Arabic: “أفسلاوتدايك”
- Arabic: “سد أفشلويتدايك”
- Asturian: “Afsluitdijk”
- Basque: “Afsluitdijk”
- Catalan: “Afsluitdijk”
- Chinese: “阿夫魯戴克大堤”
- Chinese: “阿夫鲁戴克大堤”
- Czech: “Afsluitdijk”
- Danish: “Afsluitdijk”
- Dutch: “Afsluitdijk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افسلاوتدايك”
- Esperanto: “Fermdigo”
- Finnish: “Afsluitdijk”
- French: “Afsluitdijk”
- German: “Abschlussdeich”
- Greek: “Άφσλαουτνταϊκ”
- Greek: “Άφσλεϊτνταϊκ”
- Hebrew: “אפסלאוטדייק”
- Hungarian: “Afsluitdijk”
- Ido: “Afsluitdijk”
- Indonesian: “Afsluitdijk”
- Indonesian: “Bendungan Afsluit”
- Italian: “Afsluitdijk”
- Japanese: “アフスリュイド堤防”
- Japanese: “締め切り大堤防”
- Korean: “아프슬라위트데이크”
- Limburgan: “Aafsjloetdiek”
- Lithuanian: “Afleitdeikas”
- Low German: “Afslussdiek”
- Low German: “Ofsluutdiek”
- Luxembourgish: “Ofschlossdäich”
- Macedonian: “Афслаутдајк”
- Persian: “آفسلایتدیک”
- Persian: “سد دریابند”
- Polish: “Afsluitdijk”
- Portuguese: “Afsluitdijk”
- Russian: “Афслёйтдейк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Afsluitdijk”
- Spanish: “Afsluitdijk”
- Swedish: “Afsluitdijk”
- Turkish: “Afsluitdijk”
- Ukrainian: “Афслютдейк”
- Vlaams: “Ofsluutdyk”
- Welsh: “Afsluitdijk”
- Western Frisian: “Ofslútdyk”
- Wu Chinese: “阿夫鲁戴克大堤”
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