Oost
Oost is a borough of Amsterdam. It lies between the Amstel River in the west and the IJ in the east. It should not be regarded as a homogeneous area, as there are many different neighbourhoods with their own cultures and identities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 143,000 residents
- Description: borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Amsterdam-Oost”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amsterdam Amstel station and Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Amstel station
Railway station
Photo: Henk Monster, CC BY 3.0.
Amsterdam Amstel is a railway station in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The station opened in 1939. It is located to the southeast of Amsterdam Centraal in the borough of Amsterdam-Oost, near the Amstel river.
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Museum
Photo: GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam is an ethnographic museum with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was originally founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1864 under the name Koloniaal Museum and later renamed Tropenmuseum.
Amsterdam Muiderpoort railway station
Railway station
Amsterdam Muiderpoort is a railway station in the east of Amsterdam. It was reopened on 15 October 1939 after being first opened in 1896. It is located 4 km southeast of Amsterdam Centraal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plantage and Diemen.
Plantage
Photo: Zxempire, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Plantage is a leafy neighbourhood in the centre of Amsterdam. This article also covers the Eastern Islands.
Diemen
Photo: GVR, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Diemen is a town and municipality with a population of 31,334 in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is located approximately 6 km southeast of Amsterdam's city centre, within the Amsterdam metropolitan area.
Watergraafsmeer
Neighborhood
Photo: Ceescamel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Watergraafsmeer is a polder in North Holland, Netherlands. It was reclaimed in 1629. In the 17th and 18th centuries, there were many buitenplaatsen in the Watergraafsmeer, though nowadays only one, Frankendael, remains.
Oost
- Categories: borough of Amsterdam, deelgemeente, and locality
- Location: Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, Amstelland, North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.35181° or 52° 21′ 7″ northLongitude
4.93055° or 4° 55′ 50″ eastPopulation
143,000Open location code
9F469W2J+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3609485550OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Slovenian—“Oost” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- Arabic: “أمستردام- أوست”
- Balinese: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- Chinese: “阿姆斯特丹東”
- Dutch: “Amsterdam Oost”
- Dutch: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- Dutch: “Oost (Amsterdam)”
- Dutch: “Oost”
- French: “Amsterdam-Est”
- French: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- Georgian: “ამსტერდამ-ოსტი”
- German: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- German: “Oost”
- German: “Ost”
- Hebrew: “אמסטרדם/מזרח העיר”
- Hebrew: “מזרח אמסטרדם”
- Indonesian: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- Italian: “Amsterdam-Oost”
- Persian: “آمستردام-اوست”
- Persian: “امستردام-اوست”
- Polish: “Amsterdam Oost”
- Slovenian: “Amsterdam-Oost”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Oost”. Photo: Jan1959, CC BY 3.0.