Balve
Balve is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in Hönnetal, a narrow valley created by the river Hönne, which is near the Sorpe Dam, formerly part of Balve, and at the north end of the Sauerland, near Dortmund.- Town with about 11,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 250 metres (820 feet)
- Description: town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as“05962008”“Stadt Balve”
Places of Interest
Discover Balve Cave and Luisenhütte.
Balve Cave
The Balver Höhle is the biggest cave used as a cultural venue in Europe.
Villages in the Area
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Balve
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Latitude
51.3327° or 51° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
7.8671° or 7° 52′ 1″ east
Open location code
9F398VM8+3R
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Balve” goes by many names.
BalveAfrikaans
بالفهArabic
BalveAragonese
BalveArpitan
BalveAsturian
BalveBasque
BalveBavarian
БальвэBelarusian
BalveBreton
BalveCatalan
BalveCebuano
БальвеChechen
Бальве (гӀала)Chechen
巴尔沃Chinese
BalveCorsican
BalveCroatian
BalveGalician
באלווהHebrew
BalveHungarian
BalveIcelandic
BalveIdo
BalveIndonesian
BalveInterlingua
BalveInterlingue
BalveIrish
BalveItalian
バルヴェJapanese
ブラーヴェJapanese
BalveJèrriais
БальвеKazakh
БальфеKazakh
БальвеKirghiz
BalveKongo
BalveKurdish
BalveLadin
BalveLigurian
BalveLimburgan
BalveLombard
BalveLow German
BalveLuxembourgish
BalveMalagasy
BalveMalay
BalveMinangkabau
BalveNeapolitan
BalveNorwegian
BalveNorwegian Bokmål
BalveNorwegian Nynorsk
BalveOccitan (post 1500)
بالوهPersian
BalvePicard
BalvePiemontese
BalvePolish
BalveRomanian
BalveRomansh
БальвеRussian
БальфеRussian
BalveSardinian
BalveScots
BalveScottish Gaelic
BalveSerbian
БалвеSerbian
BalveSerbo-Croatian
BalveSicilian
BalveSlovak
BalveSlovenian
بالوهSouth Azerbaijani
BalveSwahili
BalveSwedish
BalveSwiss German
БальвеTatar
Бальве (шәһәр)Tatar
BalveTumbuka
BalveTurkish
БальвеUkrainian
БальфеUkrainian
بالوےUrdu
BalveUzbek
BalveVenetian
BalveVietnamese
BalveVlaams
BalveVolapük
BalveWalloon
BalveWaray (Philippines)
BalveWelsh
BalveWolof
BalveZulu
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