Randstad

The Randstad is a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the , that includes almost half the country's population. With a central-western location, it connects and comprises the Netherlands' four biggest cities, their suburbs, and many towns in between, that all grew and merged into each other.
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  • Type: Area with 8,400,000 residents
  • Description: conurbation in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Deltametropool”, “Рандстад Голланд”, “兰斯台德”, and “蘭斯台德”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Inverted siphon and Nederlands Hervormde Kerk.

A siphon is any of a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes.

Church
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is a church.

Windmill
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is a windmill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zwammerdam and Alphen aan den Rijn.

Village
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is a village in the province of along river.

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is a town in the western .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood, which is situated 3 km northwest of Randstad.

Randstad

Latitude
52.10819° or 52° 6′ 30″ north
Longitude
4.71039° or 4° 42′ 37″ east
Population
8,400,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
9F464P56+75
Geo­Names ID
7279861
Wiki­data ID
Q806
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Randstad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Randstad”
  • Arabic: “راندستاد”
  • Azerbaijani: “Randstad”
  • Balinese: “Randstad”
  • Basque: “Randstad”
  • Breton: “Randstad”
  • Bulgarian: “Рандстад”
  • Catalan: “Randstad”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕاندستاد”
  • Chinese: “兰斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “蘭斯塔德”
  • Croatian: “Randstad Holland”
  • Croatian: “Randstad”
  • Czech: “Randstad”
  • Danish: “Randstad”
  • Dutch: “Randstad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “راندستاد”
  • Esperanto: “Randstad”
  • Finnish: “Randstad”
  • French: “Randstad”
  • Galician: “Randstad”
  • German: “Randstad”
  • Greek: “Ράντσταντ”
  • Hebrew: “ראנדסטאד”
  • Hindi: “रांडस्टाट”
  • Hungarian: “Randstad”
  • Indonesian: “Randstad”
  • Irish: “Randstad”
  • Italian: “Randstad”
  • Japanese: “ランドスタット”
  • Javanese: “Randstad”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Рандстад”
  • Korean: “란트스타트”
  • Ladin: “Randstad”
  • Latin: “Randstad”
  • Limburgan: “Randstad”
  • Lithuanian: “Randstadas”
  • Low German: “Raandstad”
  • Low German: “Randstad”
  • Macedonian: “Рандстад”
  • Nepali: “रान्डस्टाड”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Randstad”
  • Norwegian: “Randstad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Randstad”
  • Papiamento: “Randstad”
  • Persian: “رنتستات”
  • Picard: “Randstad”
  • Polish: “Randstad”
  • Portuguese: “Randstad”
  • Romanian: “Randstad”
  • Russian: “Рандстад”
  • Serbian: “Рандстад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Randstad”
  • Spanish: “Randstad”
  • Swedish: “Randstad”
  • Swiss German: “Randstad”
  • Tamil: “இரான்ட்சுடாடு”
  • Tamil: “ரன்ஸ்டாட்”
  • Turkish: “Randstad”
  • Ukrainian: “Рандстад”
  • Urdu: “رینڈ اسٹاڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Randstad”
  • Vlaams: “Randstad”
  • Walloon: “Randstad”
  • Welsh: “Randstad”
  • Western Frisian: “Rânestêd”
  • Wu Chinese: “兰斯塔德”
  • “Randstad”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Randtad and Spoelwijk.

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Highlights: Steektermolen and De Dikke Molen.

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