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Jan van Galenstraat

Jan van Galenstraat metro station is a station of the Amsterdam Metro's Route 50 and Route 51. It was opened on 28 May 1997 and is named after Commodore Jan van Galen who served under the Dutch Republic.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: metro station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Jan Van Galenstraat” and “Jan van Galenstraat metro station”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tram stop Jan van Galenstraat and The Social Hub Amsterdam West.

Tram stop
Photo: Ainali, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hotel
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a hotel.

Bridge
Photo: Ceescamel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a bridge, which is situated 250 metres northeast of Jan van Galenstraat.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kolenkit District and Slotermeer.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood in , . In 2009 Eberhard van der Laan, the Minister of Housing, referred to the neighborhood as the worst in his "40 problem neighbourhoods" list.

Quarter
is a of , , in the Dutch province of . The name of comes from the Slootermeer Lake that used to be in this area…

Quarter
Photo: Milliped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood of , . From 1990 to 2010 it was considered a district of the municipality of Amsterdam in the province of .

Jan van Galenstraat

Latitude
52.37266° or 52° 22′ 22″ north
Longitude
4.83529° or 4° 50′ 7″ east
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Inception
May 28th, 1997
Operator
GVB
Network
Amsterdamse metro
Open location code
9F469RFP+34
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250224485
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6954338
Wiki­data ID
Q3273303
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Jan van Galenstraat” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • Esperanto: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • French: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • German: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • Indonesian: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • Polish: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • Spanish: “Jan van Galenstraat”
  • Ukrainian: “Ян-фан-Халенстрат”
  • “Jan van Galenstraat”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jan van Galenstraat”. Photo: Styyx, CC BY-SA 4.0.