Pekela
Pekela is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was created in 1990 when Oude Pekela and Nieuwe Pekela were merged.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 12,200 residents
- Description: municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Neighbors: Oldambt
Places of Interest
Highlights include De Zwaluw and Pekelderbos.
Pekelderbos
Park
Photo: Gijs Bolmeijer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pekelderbos is a park, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Pekela.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Veenkoloniën and Nieuwe Pekela.
Veenkoloniën
The Veenkoloniën or Peat District is a region in the southeast of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. The region used to be uncultivated land, but starting in the 16th and 17th centuries the city of Groningen started to colonise more and more of the area for the extraction of peat, to be used as fuel.Nieuwe Pekela
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nieuwe Pekela is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Pekela, about 7 km southeast of Veendam. The village started as a peat colony, and was named after the river Pekel A.
Alteveer
Village
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
Alteveer is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is largely located in the municipality Stadskanaal, about 7 km northeast of the centre of Stadskanaal.
Pekela
- Location: Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Pekela” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pekela”
- Albanian: “Pekela”
- Arabic: “باكالا”
- Armenian: “Պեյկելա”
- Asturian: “Pekela”
- Balinese: “Pekela”
- Basque: “Pekela”
- Breton: “Pekela”
- Catalan: “Pekela”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Pekela”
- Chinese: “Pekela”
- Chinese: “佩克拉”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Pekela”
- Dutch: “Pekela”
- Esperanto: “Pekela”
- French: “Pekela”
- German: “Pekela”
- Hungarian: “Pekela”
- Indonesian: “Pekela”
- Irish: “Pekela”
- Italian: “Pekela”
- Kurdish: “Pekela”
- Limburgan: “Pekela”
- Low German: “De Pekel”
- Luxembourgish: “Pekela”
- Malay: “Pekela”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pekela”
- Minangkabau: “Pekela”
- Northern Frisian: “Pekela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pekela”
- Norwegian: “Pekela”
- Persian: “پیکلا”
- Polish: “Pekela”
- Portuguese: “Pekela”
- Romanian: “Pekela”
- Russian: “Пекела”
- Saterfriesisch: “Pekela”
- Spanish: “Pekela”
- Swedish: “Pekela”
- Turkish: “Pekela”
- Ukrainian: “Пекела”
- Venetian: “Pekela”
- Vietnamese: “Pekela”
- Volapük: “Pekela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pekela”
- Western Frisian: “Pekela”
- Zeeuws: “Pekela”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ommelanderwijk and De Onrust.
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