Aalten Municipality
Aalten is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The former municipalities of Bredevoort and Dinxperlo have been merged with Aalten. Notable inhabitants of Aalten include Angus Young, guitarist of the Australian rock band AC/DC, and Robert Gesink, a professional road bicycle racer.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 27,100 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Aalten”, “Aalten (gemeente)”, and “Альтен”
- Neighbors: Bocholt and Oost Gelre
Places of Interest
Highlights: Nationaal Onderduikmuseum and Aalten railway station.
Aalten railway station
Railway station
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lintelo and ’t Klooster.
Lintelo
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.’t Klooster
Hamlet
't Klooster is a hamlet in the municipality of Aalten, near Bredevoort in the eastern Netherlands. ’t Klooster is situated 6 km northeast of Aalten Municipality.
Bastion Vreesniet
Locality
Bastion Vreesniet is a locality, which is situated 4 km northeast of Aalten Municipality.
Aalten Municipality
- Location: Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.9242° or 51° 55′ 27″ north
Longitude
6.5657° or 6° 33′ 57″ east
Population
27,100
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open location code
9F38WHF8+M7
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aalten Municipality” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aalten”
- Albanian: “Aalten”
- Arabic: “آلتن”
- Aragonese: “Aalten”
- Armenian: “Ալտեն”
- Arpitan: “Aalten”
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- Basque: “Aalten”
- Bavarian: “Aalten”
- Belarusian: “Алтэн”
- Breton: “Aalten”
- Catalan: “Aalten”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Aalten”
- Chinese: “阿尔滕”
- Chinese: “阿爾滕”
- Corsican: “Aalten”
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- Danish: “Aalten”
- Dutch: “Aalten”
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- Estonian: “Aalten”
- Finnish: “Aalten”
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- German: “Aalten”
- Greek: “Άαλτεν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Aalten”
- Hungarian: “Aalten”
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- Ido: “Aalten”
- Indonesian: “Aalten”
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- Irish: “Aalten”
- Italian: “Aalten”
- Japanese: “アールテン”
- Javanese: “Aalten”
- Jèrriais: “Aalten”
- Kongo: “Aalten”
- Korean: “알턴”
- Kurdish: “Aalten”
- Ladin: “Aalten”
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- Low German: “Aalten”
- Luxembourgish: “Aalten”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Aalten”
- Macedonian: “Алтен”
- Malagasy: “Aalten”
- Malay: “Aalten”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aalten”
- Minangkabau: “Aalten”
- Neapolitan: “Aalten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aalten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aalten”
- Norwegian: “Aalten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aalten”
- Persian: “آلتن”
- Picard: “Aalten”
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- Polish: “Aalten”
- Portuguese: “Aalten”
- Romanian: “Aalten”
- Romansh: “Aalten”
- Russian: “Алтен”
- Sardinian: “Aalten”
- Saterfriesisch: “Aalten”
- Scots: “Aalten”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aalten”
- Serbian: “Aalten”
- Sicilian: “Aalten”
- Slovak: “Aalten”
- Slovenian: “Aalten”
- Spanish: “Aalten”
- Swahili: “Aalten”
- Swedish: “Aalten”
- Swiss German: “Aalten”
- Turkish: “Aalten”
- Ukrainian: “Алтен”
- Urdu: “آلٹین”
- Uzbek: “Aalten”
- Venetian: “Aalten”
- Vietnamese: “Aalten”
- Vlaams: “Aalten”
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- Walloon: “Aalten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aalten”
- Welsh: “Aalten”
- Western Frisian: “Aalten”
- Wolof: “Aalten”
- Zeeuws: “Aelten”
- Zulu: “Aalten”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Aalten and Dale.
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Highlights: Nieuwe Helenakerk and De Lelie.
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