Ameland
Ameland is a municipality and one of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands. It consists mostly of sand dunes and is the third major island of the West Frisians.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 3,650 residents
- Description: municipality in Friesland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Ameland Municipalitye” and “Gemeente Ameland”
- Neighbors: Schiermonnikoog and Terschelling
Places of Interest
Highlights include Natuurcentrum Ameland and Sint-Clemenskerk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nes and Buren.
Nes
Village
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Nes is the second largest village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands in the northern Netherlands. It constitutes the main village of the eastern, Roman Catholic part of Ameland and had a population of 1,155 as of January 2017.
Buren
Village
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Buren is the easternmost village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands and part of the Netherlands. Buren had, as of January 2017, a population of 715.
Ballum
Village
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Ballum is a village on the western half of the island of Ameland and the smallest of the total of four villages on the island, one of the West Frisian Islands and part of the Netherlands.
Ameland
- Location: Friesland, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Ameland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ameland”
- Albanian: “Ameland”
- Arabic: “أمالاند”
- Aragonese: “Ameland”
- Aragonese: “It Amelân”
- Armenian: “Ամելանդ”
- Asturian: “Ameland”
- Basque: “Ameland”
- Belarusian: “Амэлянд”
- Breton: “Amelân”
- Breton: “Ameland”
- Catalan: “Amelân”
- Catalan: “Ameland”
- Cebuano: “Ameland”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Ameland”
- Chinese: “Ameland”
- Chinese: “阿默兰岛”
- Chinese: “阿默蘭島”
- Czech: “Ameland”
- Danish: “Ameland”
- Dutch: “Amelan”
- Dutch: “Amelân”
- Dutch: “Ameland”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Ameland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امالاند”
- Esperanto: “Ameland”
- Estonian: “Ameland”
- Estonian: “Amelandi vald”
- French: “Ameland”
- Galician: “Ameland”
- German: “Ameland”
- German: “Oerd”
- Greek: “Άμελαντ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ameland”
- Hungarian: “Ameland”
- Indonesian: “Ameland”
- Irish: “Ameland”
- Italian: “Ameland”
- Japanese: “アーメラント”
- Javanese: “Ameland”
- Korean: “아멜란트”
- Kurdish: “Ameland”
- Latvian: “Amelande”
- Limburgan: “Ameland”
- Limburgan: “Amelandj”
- Lithuanian: “Amelandas”
- Low German: “Amelaand”
- Luxembourgish: “Ameland”
- Malay: “Ameland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ameland”
- Northern Frisian: “It Amelân”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ameland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ameland”
- Norwegian: “Ameland”
- Persian: “امیلند”
- Polish: “Ameland”
- Portuguese: “Ameland”
- Romanian: “Ameland”
- Russian: “Амеланд”
- Saterfriesisch: “Amelound”
- Saterfriesisch: “It Amelân”
- Scots: “Ameland”
- Slovenian: “Ameland”
- Spanish: “Amelan”
- Spanish: “Amelân”
- Spanish: “Ameland”
- Swedish: “Ameland”
- Turkish: “Ameland”
- Ukrainian: “Амеланд”
- Venetian: “Ameland”
- Volapük: “Ameland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ameland”
- Western Frisian: “Amelân”
- Western Frisian: “Gemeente It Amelân”
- Western Frisian: “It Amelân”
- Zeeuws: “Aemeland”
- Zeeuws: “Ameland”
- “Ameland”
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