Herford

Herford is a town in , Germany, located in the lowlands between the hill chains of the and the . It is situated in the cultural region of and the .
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  • Type: Town with 65,000 residents
  • Description: town in the Herford district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include MARTa Herford and Herford station.

Museum
is a contemporary art museum in Herford, Germany.

Railway station
Photo: JonesNRW, Public domain.
is a junction station with four platforms and seven platform tracks in the town of Herford in the German state of .

Museum
Photo: TUBS, Public domain.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hiddenhausen and Herringhausen.

Town
is a municipality in the , in , . The municipality was formed in 1969 in a reform of by combining the villages of Lippinghausen, Eilshausen, Schweicheln-Bermbeck, , Oetinghausen and Sundern. is situated 4½ km northwest of Herford.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Herford

Latitude
52.1152° or 52° 6′ 55″ north
Longitude
8.6711° or 8° 40′ 16″ east
Population
65,000
Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)
IATA airport code
ZNK
United Nations Location Code
DE HRD
Open location code
9F4C4M8C+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240052342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2906121
Wiki­data ID
Q3971
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Herford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Herford
  • Arabic: هرفورد
  • Aragonese: Herford
  • Armenian: Հերֆորդ
  • Arpitan: Herford
  • Asturian: Herford
  • Azerbaijani: Herford
  • Basque: Herford
  • Bavarian: Herford
  • Belarusian: Герфард
  • Breton: Herford
  • Bulgarian: Херфорд
  • Catalan: Herford
  • Cebuano: Herford
  • Chechen: Херфорд
  • Chinese: 赫尔福德
  • Chinese: 黑尔福德
  • Chinese: 黑爾福德
  • Corsican: Herford
  • Croatian: Herford
  • Czech: Herford
  • Danish: Herford
  • Dutch: Herford
  • Esperanto: Herford
  • Esperanto: Herfordo
  • Estonian: Herford
  • Finnish: Herford
  • French: Herford
  • Friulian: Herford
  • Galician: Herford
  • Georgian: ჰერფორდი
  • German: Hansestadt Herford
  • German: Herford
  • Greek: Χέρφορντ
  • Hebrew: הרפורד
  • Hungarian: Herford
  • Icelandic: Herford
  • Ido: Herford
  • Indonesian: Herford
  • Interlingua: Herford
  • Interlingue: Herford
  • Irish: Herford
  • Italian: Herford
  • Japanese: ヘルフォルト
  • Kazakh: Херфорд
  • Kirghiz: Херфорд
  • Kongo: Herford
  • Korean: 헤르포르트
  • Kotava: Herford
  • Kurdish: Herford
  • Ladin: Herford
  • Ligurian: Herford
  • Limburgan: Herford
  • Lithuanian: Herfordas
  • Low German: Herford
  • Low German: Hiarwede
  • Luxembourgish: Herford
  • Malagasy: Herford
  • Malay: Herford
  • Minangkabau: Herford
  • Moksha: Гэрфорд
  • Narom: Herford
  • Neapolitan: Herford
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Herford
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Herford
  • Norwegian: Herford
  • Occitan (post 1500): Herford
  • Persian: هرفرد
  • Persian: هرفورد
  • Picard: Herford
  • Piemontese: Herford
  • Polish: Herford
  • Portuguese: Herford
  • Romanian: Herford
  • Romansh: Herford
  • Russian: Херфорд
  • Sardinian: Herford
  • Scots: Herford
  • Scottish Gaelic: Herford
  • Serbian: Herford
  • Serbian: Херфорд
  • Serbo-Croatian: Herford
  • Sicilian: Herford
  • Slovak: Herford
  • Slovenian: Herford
  • Spanish: Herford
  • Swahili: Herford
  • Swedish: Herford
  • Swiss German: Herford
  • Tatar: Һерфорд
  • Tumbuka: Herford
  • Turkish: Hansestadt Herford
  • Turkish: Herford
  • Ukrainian: Герфорд
  • Uzbek: Herford
  • Venetian: Herford
  • Vietnamese: Herford
  • Vlaams: Herford
  • Volapük: Herford
  • Walloon: Herford
  • Waray (Philippines): Herford
  • Welsh: Herford
  • Wolof: Herford
  • Zulu: Herford
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