Randstad
The Randstad is a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Area with 8,400,000 residents
- Description: conurbation in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Deltametropool”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nigrum Pullum and Inverted siphon.
Inverted siphon
A siphon is any of a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes. In a narrower sense, the word refers particularly to a tube in an inverted "U" shape, which causes a liquid to flow upward, above the surface of a reservoir, with…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zwammerdam and Alphen aan den Rijn.
Zwammerdam
Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
Zwammerdam is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland along Oude Rijn river. It is a part of the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn, and lies about 6 km southeast of Alphen aan de Rijn.
Alphen aan den Rijn
Photo: Ziko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alphen aan den Rijn is a town in the western Netherlands. The city is situated on the banks of the Old Rhine between Utrecht and Leiden. The area around Alphen aan den Rijn has been inhabited for 2000 years.
Gouwsluis
Neighborhood
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Gouwsluis is a neighborhood, which is situated 3 km northwest of Randstad.
Randstad
- Categories: conurbation, metropolitan area, and polycentric metropolitan area
- Location: South Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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: “兰斯台德”
- Chinese: “兰斯塔德”
- Chinese: “蘭斯台德”
- Chinese: “蘭斯塔德”
- Croatian: “Randstad Holland”
- Croatian: “Randstad”
- Czech: “Randstad”
- Danish: “Randstad”
- Dutch: “Deltametropool”
- Dutch: “Randstad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راندستاد”
- Esperanto: “Randstad”
- Finnish: “Randstad”
- French: “Deltametropool”
- French: “Randstad”
- Galician: “Randstad”
- German: “Deltametropool”
- German: “Randstad”
- Greek: “Ράντσταντ”
- Hebrew: “ראנדסטאד”
- Hungarian: “Randstad”
- Indonesian: “Randstad”
- Irish: “Randstad”
- Italian: “Randstad Holland”
- Italian: “Randstad”
- Japanese: “ランドスタット”
- Javanese: “Randstad”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Рандстад”
- Korean: “란트스타트”
- Ladin: “Randstad”
- Latin: “Deltametropool”
- Latin: “Randstad”
- Limburgan: “Deltametropool”
- Limburgan: “Randstad”
- Low German: “Raandstad”
- Low German: “Randstad”
- Macedonian: “Рандстад”
- Nepali: “रान्डस्टाड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Randstad”
- Norwegian: “Randstad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Randstad”
- Papiamento: “Randstad”
- Persian: “رنتستات”
- Picard: “Deltametropool”
- Picard: “Randstad”
- Polish: “Randstad”
- Portuguese: “Randstad”
- Romanian: “Randstad”
- Russian: “Рандстад Голланд”
- Russian: “Рандстад”
- Serbian: “Рандстад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Randstad”
- Spanish: “Randstad”
- Swedish: “Randstad”
- Swiss German: “Randstad”
- Tamil: “இரான்ட்சுடாடு”
- Tamil: “ரன்ஸ்டாட்”
- Tosk Albanian: “Randstad”
- Turkish: “Randstad”
- Ukrainian: “Рандстад”
- Vietnamese: “Randstad”
- Vlaams: “Deltametropool”
- Vlaams: “Randstad”
- Walloon: “Deltametropool”
- Walloon: “Randstad”
- Welsh: “Randstad”
- Western Frisian: “Rânestêd”
- Wu Chinese: “兰斯塔德”
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