Drechterland
Drechterland is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. The municipality was formed in 1979, in a merger of the former municipalities of Hoogkarspel, Westwoud and Oosterblokker.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 19,800 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Neighbors: Hoorn and Lelystad
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoogkarspel railway station and Sint-Martinuskerk, Westwoud.
Hoogkarspel railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dqfn13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hoogkarspel is a railway station in Hoogkarspel, Netherlands. The station opened on 6 June 1885 and is located between Hoorn and Enkhuizen. The station is on the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway.
Sint-Martinuskerk, Westwoud
Church
Photo: Dolfy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sint-Martinuskerk, Westwoud is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hoorn and Hoogkarspel.
Hoorn
Photo: Gerd W. Zinke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hoorn is an old city in the Dutch province of North-Holland. Hoorn is well known in the Netherlands for its rich history. Many of the houses in the historical city centre date back to the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in the area north of the harbour.
Hoogkarspel
Village
Hoogkarspel is a village in the municipality Drechterland, located in the north west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. Hoogkarspel is situated 3½ km north of Drechterland.
Venhuizen
Village
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Venhuizen is a town in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia, in the municipality of Drechterland.
Drechterland
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Drechterland” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Drechterland”
- Arabic: “دريخترلاند”
- Aragonese: “Drechterland”
- Armenian: “Դրեխտերլանդ”
- Asturian: “Drechterland”
- Balinese: “Drechterland”
- Basque: “Drechterland”
- Breton: “Drechterland”
- Catalan: “Drechterland”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Drechterland”
- Chinese: “Drechterland”
- Chinese: “多勒齊特蘭德”
- Chinese: “德雷赫特兰”
- Dutch: “Drechterland (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Drechterland”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Drechterland”
- Esperanto: “Drechterland”
- Finnish: “Drechterland”
- French: “Drechterland”
- German: “Drechterland”
- Hungarian: “Drechterland”
- Indonesian: “Drechterland”
- Irish: “Drechterland”
- Italian: “Drechterland”
- Javanese: “Drechterland”
- Kurdish: “Drechterland”
- Limburgan: “Drechterland”
- Low German: “Drechterlaand”
- Luxembourgish: “Drechterland”
- Malay: “Drechterland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Drechterland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Drechterland”
- Norwegian: “Drechterland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Drechterland”
- Persian: “درخترلاند”
- Polish: “Drechterland”
- Portuguese: “Drechterland”
- Romanian: “Drechterland”
- Russian: “Дрехтерланд”
- Saterfriesisch: “Drechterland”
- Spanish: “Drechterland”
- Swedish: “Drechterland”
- Turkish: “Drechterland”
- Ukrainian: “Дрехтерланд”
- Venetian: “Drechterland”
- Vietnamese: “Drechterland”
- Volapük: “Drechterland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Drechterland”
- Western Frisian: “Drechterlân”
- Western Frisian: “Drechterland”
- Zeeuws: “Drechterland”
- “Drechterland”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hem and Blokdijk.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include De Stofmolen and Vluchthaven Wijdenes.
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