Heek
Heek is a municipality in the district of Borken, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 20 km south-east of Enschede. Heek consists of two villages, Heek and Nienborg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 8,040 residents
- Description: municipality in the district of Borken, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “Heek, Germany”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Peter und Paul and St. Ludger (Heek).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Epe and Metelen.
Epe
Village
Epe is a village in the district of Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the Dutch border, approx. 10 km east of Enschede. Epe is situated 7 km northwest of Heek.
Metelen
Village
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Metelen is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Vechte in the district of Steinfurt. Metelen Land station is located on the Münster–Enschede railway and has an hourly train service to Münster in one direction and to Enschede in the other direction. Metelen is situated 8 km east of Heek.
Ahaus
Town
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Ahaus is a town in the district of Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, lying some 20 km south-east of Enschede and 15 km south from Gronau. Ahaus is situated 8 km southwest of Heek.
Heek
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany and locality
- Location: Heek, Borken, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.12423° or 52° 7′ 27″ northLongitude
7.10118° or 7° 6′ 4″ eastPopulation
8,040Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE HXQOpen location code
9F4944F2+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 60358138OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Heek” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Heek”
- Aragonese: “Heek”
- Arpitan: “Heek”
- Asturian: “Heek”
- Basque: “Heek”
- Bavarian: “Heek”
- Breton: “Heek”
- Catalan: “Heek”
- Cebuano: “Heek (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Heek”
- Chechen: “Хеек”
- Chinese: “黑克”
- Corsican: “Heek”
- Croatian: “Heek”
- Czech: “Heek”
- Danish: “Heek”
- Dutch: “Heek”
- Esperanto: “Heek”
- Estonian: “Heek”
- Finnish: “Heek”
- French: “Heek”
- Friulian: “Heek”
- Galician: “Heek”
- German: “Heek”
- Hungarian: “Heek”
- Icelandic: “Heek”
- Ido: “Heek”
- Indonesian: “Heek”
- Interlingua: “Heek”
- Interlingue: “Heek”
- Irish: “Heek”
- Italian: “Heek”
- Japanese: “ヘーク”
- Kazakh: “Хеек”
- Kirghiz: “Хеек”
- Kongo: “Heek”
- Kurdish: “Heek, Almanya”
- Ladin: “Heek”
- Ligurian: “Heek”
- Limburgan: “Heek”
- Low German: “Heek”
- Luxembourgish: “Heek”
- Malagasy: “Heek”
- Malay: “Heek, Jerman”
- Malay: “Heek”
- Minangkabau: “Heek”
- Narom: “Heek”
- Neapolitan: “Heek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Heek”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heek”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Heek”
- Old Saxon: “Hêk”
- Persian: “هک (آلمان)”
- Persian: “هک”
- Picard: “Heek”
- Piemontese: “Heek”
- Polish: “Heek”
- Portuguese: “Heek”
- Romanian: “Heek”
- Romansh: “Heek”
- Russian: “Хеек”
- Sardinian: “Heek”
- Scots: “Heek”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Heek”
- Serbian: “Heek”
- Serbian: “Хек”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Heek”
- Sicilian: “Heek”
- Slovak: “Heek”
- Slovenian: “Heek”
- Spanish: “Heek”
- Swahili: “Heek”
- Swedish: “Heek”
- Swiss German: “Heek”
- Tatar: “Хеек”
- Turkish: “Heek”
- Ukrainian: “Гек”
- Uzbek: “Heek”
- Venetian: “Heek”
- Vietnamese: “Heek”
- Vlaams: “Heek”
- Volapük: “Heek”
- Walloon: “Heek”
- Waray (Philippines): “Heek, Alemanya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Heek”
- Welsh: “Heek”
- Wolof: “Heek”
- Zulu: “Heek”
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