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Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a medieval city to the east of and . It is at the edge of their commuting area. The city centre is full of historic buildings and streets, and there is accessible forest into the west and south.
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  • Type: City with 146,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Amersfoort Municipality”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Amersfoort Centraal railway station and Koppelpoort.

Railway station
Photo: Sneeuwvlakte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Amersfoort Centraal is the main railway station in Amersfoort in the province of Utrecht, . The station was an important link between the western part of the Netherlands and the north and east of the country until December 2012 when the Hanzelijn opened.

City gate
Photo: Bert, CC BY 2.0.
The is a medieval in the Dutch city of Amersfoort, province of . Completed around 1425, it combines land and water-gates, and is part of the second city wall of Amersfoort, which was constructed between 1380 and 1450.

Photo: Pepijntje, Public domain.
The , nicknamed Lange Jan, is a church tower in Amersfoort. The Late Gothic building is 98.33 metres tall and reaches high above the inner city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leusden and Hoogland.

Town
Photo: G.Lanting, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality and a town in the , in the province of . It is located about 3 kilometres southeast of Amersfoort. The western part of the municipality lies on the slopes of the and is largely covered by forest and heathlands.

Village
is a village and former free-standing municipality in the province of in the . It is located north of the Amersfoort city centre.

Town
is a town in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of , and lies about 5 km east of Amersfoort. was a separate municipality until 2000, when it was merged with Nijkerk.

Amersfoort

Latitude
52.1563° or 52° 9′ 23″ north
Longitude
5.3897° or 5° 23′ 23″ east
Population
146,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
9F47594Q+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 667889917
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2759820
Wiki­data ID
Q992
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Amersfoort” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amersfoort, Nederland”
  • Albanian: “Amersfoort”
  • Arabic: “آمرسفورت”
  • Armenian: “Ամերսֆորտ”
  • Asturian: “Amersfoort”
  • Balinese: “Amersfoort”
  • Basque: “Amersfoort”
  • Belarusian: “Амерсфарт”
  • Belarusian: “Амэрсфоорт”
  • Bengali: “এমার্চফুর্ট”
  • Breton: “Amersfoort”
  • Bulgarian: “Амерсфорт”
  • Catalan: “Amersfoort”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Amersfoort”
  • Chinese: “阿默斯福特”
  • Croatian: “Amersfoort”
  • Czech: “Amersfoort”
  • Danish: “Amersfoort”
  • Dutch: “Amersfoort (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Amersfoort”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Amersfoort”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Amersfoort”
  • Dutch: “Keistad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آمرس”
  • Esperanto: “Amersfoort”
  • Esperanto: “Amersforto”
  • Estonian: “Amersfoort”
  • Finnish: “Amersfoort”
  • French: “Amersfoort”
  • Galician: “Amersfoort”
  • Georgian: “ამერსფორტი”
  • German: “Amersfoort”
  • Greek: “Άμερσφοορτ”
  • Greek: “Αμερσφόρτ”
  • Gujarati: “અમેર્સફૂર્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “אמרספורט”
  • Hindi: “अमरस्फूर्त”
  • Hungarian: “Amersfoort”
  • Icelandic: “Amersfoort”
  • Ido: “Amersfoort”
  • Indonesian: “Amersfoort”
  • Irish: “Amersfoort”
  • Italian: “Amersfoort”
  • Japanese: “アメルスフォールト”
  • Javanese: “Amersfoort”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮರ್ಸ್ಫೂರ್ಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Амерсфорт”
  • Korean: “아메르스포르트”
  • Kurdish: “Amersfoort”
  • Latvian: “Amersforta”
  • Limburgan: “Amersfoort”
  • Lithuanian: “Amersfortas”
  • Low German: “Amersfoort”
  • Low German: “Amesfoort”
  • Luxembourgish: “Amersfoort”
  • Macedonian: “Амерсфорт”
  • Malay: “Amersfoort”
  • Manx: “Amersfoort”
  • Marathi: “अम्रेसफुर्ट”
  • Nepali: “एमेर्सफुर्ट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amersfoort”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amersfoort”
  • Norwegian: “Amersfoort”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amersfoort”
  • Ossetian: “Амерсфорт”
  • Persian: “آمرسفورت”
  • Polish: “Amersfoort”
  • Portuguese: “Amersfoort”
  • Romanian: “Amersfoort”
  • Russian: “Амерсфорт”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Amersfoort”
  • Scots: “Amersfoort”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Amersfoort”
  • Serbian: “Амерсфорт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amersfoort”
  • Silesian: “Amersfoort”
  • Sinhala: “අමර්ස්ෆූර්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Amersfoort”
  • Slovenian: “Amersfoort”
  • Spanish: “Amersfoort”
  • Swahili: “Amersfoort”
  • Swedish: “Amersfoort”
  • Tamil: “அமர்ஸ்ஃபோர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Амерсфорт”
  • Telugu: “అమెర్స్ఫూర్ట్”
  • Thai: “อาเมอร์สโฟร์ต”
  • Turkish: “Amersfoort”
  • Ukrainian: “Амерсфорт”
  • Urdu: “امیرسفورت”
  • Venetian: “Amersfoort”
  • Vietnamese: “Amersfoort”
  • Vlaams: “Amersfoort”
  • Volapük: “Amersfoort”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amersfoort”
  • Welsh: “Amersfoort”
  • Western Frisian: “Amersfoart”
  • Western Panjabi: “امرزفورٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿默斯福特”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿默斯福特”
  • Zeeuws: “Amersfoort”
  • “Amersfoort”

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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 “Amersfoort”. Photo: MelvinvdC, CC BY-SA 3.0.