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.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 12,200 residents
- Description: municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Neighbors: Oldambt
Places of Interest
Highlights: De Zwaluw and Pekelderbos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Veenkoloniën and Nieuwe Pekela.
Veenkoloniën
The Veenkoloniën or Peat District is a region in the…
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Village
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.Pekela
- Location: Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.0597° or 53° 3′ 35″ north
Longitude
6.9651° or 6° 57′ 54″ east
Population
12,200
Open location code
9F583X58+V2
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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: “佩克拉”
- Dutch: “Pekela”
- Esperanto: “Pekela”
- French: “Pekela”
- German: “Pekela”
- Hungarian: “Pekela”
- Indonesian: “Pekela”
- Irish: “Pekela”
- Italian: “Pekela”
- Kurdish: “Pekela”
- Ladin: “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”
- Urdu: “پیکلا”
- Venetian: “Pekela”
- Vietnamese: “Pekela”
- Volapük: “Pekela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pekela”
- Western Frisian: “Pekela”
- Zeeuws: “Pekela”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kruiselwerk and Numero Dertien.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Ommelanderwijk and De Onrust.
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