North Rhine-Westphalia
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Kleve

Straelen

Straelen is a municipality in the district of Cleves, in , . It is located near the border with the , approx. 10 km north-east of . Twinning : in Meurthe-et-Moselle, since 7 July 1963.
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  • Type: Town with 15,400 residents
  • Description: town in Kleve District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “05154052” and “Stadt Straelen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sankt Peter und Paul and Sterk Helmes.

Church
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is a church.

Work of art
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is a work of art.

Apartment building
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is an apartment building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wachtendonk and Wankum.

Village
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at the confluence of and is a municipality in the district of in , . It is located west of the Rhine halfway between and at the border. Its name means 'bailiff's Donk'. is situated 6 km southeast of Straelen.

Village
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is a part of in , . Its location, near the A40 autobahn close to the border with , is infamous with British motorists who pass the sign to the exit shortly after entering Germany and view the name with amusement due to its two syllables in written appearance. is situated 5 km southeast of Straelen.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km southwest of Straelen.

Straelen

Latitude
51.4439° or 51° 26′ 38″ north
Longitude
6.2694° or 6° 16′ 10″ east
Population
15,400
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
9F38C7V9+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240097044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557496
Wiki­data ID
Q8856
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Straelen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Straelen”
  • Arabic: “اشترلن”
  • Arabic: “شتريلن”
  • Aragonese: “Straelen”
  • Arpitan: “Straelen”
  • Asturian: “Straelen”
  • Basque: “Straelen”
  • Bavarian: “Straelen”
  • Belarusian: “Штрален”
  • Breton: “Straelen”
  • Catalan: “Straelen”
  • Cebuano: “Straelen”
  • Chechen: “Штрален”
  • Chinese: “施特拉伦”
  • Corsican: “Straelen”
  • Croatian: “Straelen”
  • Czech: “Straelen”
  • Danish: “Straelen”
  • Dutch: “Straelen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شتريلن”
  • Esperanto: “Straelen”
  • Estonian: “Straelen”
  • Finnish: “Straelen”
  • French: “Straelen”
  • Friulian: “Straelen”
  • Galician: “Straelen”
  • German: “Straelen”
  • Hungarian: “Straelen”
  • Icelandic: “Straelen”
  • Ido: “Straelen”
  • Indonesian: “Straelen”
  • Interlingua: “Straelen”
  • Interlingue: “Straelen”
  • Irish: “Straelen”
  • Italian: “Straelen”
  • Japanese: “シュトラーレン”
  • Kazakh: “Штрален”
  • Kirghiz: “Штрален”
  • Kongo: “Straelen”
  • Korean: “슈트랄렌”
  • Kurdish: “Straelen”
  • Ladin: “Straelen”
  • Ligurian: “Straelen”
  • Limburgan: “Straelen”
  • Limburgan: “Straole”
  • Low German: “Straelen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Straelen”
  • Macedonian: “Штрален”
  • Malagasy: “Straelen”
  • Malay: “Straelen”
  • Minangkabau: “Straelen”
  • Narom: “Straelen”
  • Neapolitan: “Straelen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Straelen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Straelen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Straelen”
  • Persian: “اشترلن”
  • Picard: “Straelen”
  • Piemontese: “Straelen”
  • Polish: “Straelen”
  • Portuguese: “Straelen”
  • Romanian: “Straelen”
  • Romansh: “Straelen”
  • Russian: “Штрален”
  • Sardinian: “Straelen”
  • Scots: “Straelen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Straelen”
  • Serbian: “Straelen”
  • Serbian: “Штраелен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Straelen”
  • Sicilian: “Straelen”
  • Slovak: “Straelen”
  • Slovenian: “Straelen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اشترلن”
  • Spanish: “Straelen”
  • Swahili: “Straelen”
  • Swedish: “Straelen”
  • Swiss German: “Straelen”
  • Tatar: “Штрален”
  • Tumbuka: “Straelen”
  • Turkish: “Straelen”
  • Ukrainian: “Штрален”
  • Ukrainian: “Штрелен”
  • Uzbek: “Straelen”
  • Venetian: “Straelen”
  • Vietnamese: “Straelen”
  • Vlaams: “Straelen”
  • Volapük: “Straelen”
  • Walloon: “Straelen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Straelen”
  • Welsh: “Straelen”
  • Wolof: “Straelen”
  • Zeeuws: “Straelen”
  • Zulu: “Straelen”

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