Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands. It is known for the canals that cross the city, its impressive architecture, museums and art galleries, its notorious red light district, and more than 1,500 bridges.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Binnenstad and Zuid.
Canal District
The Canal District is the famous 17th-century district surrounding the Binnenstad of Amsterdam.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Zuidoost and Oost.
Zuidoost
Janericloebe, Public domain.
Zuidoost, often colloquially referred to as the Bijlmer, is a borough of Amsterdam.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Anne Frank House.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amsterdam City Centre and New West.
Amsterdam City Centre
Amsterdam-Centrum is the inner-most borough and…
Amsterdam
- City with about 921,000 residents
- …has the IATA airport code AMS
- Description: capital and most populous city of the Netherlands
- Postal codes1011-10191021-10281031-10371041-10471051-10691071-10791081-1083108610871091-10981101-1109
- Also known as“A’dam”“Âmesterdâm”“Amstardām”“Amsterdam, Netherlands”“Amsterdam, NL”“Amsterdam, North Holland”“Āmǔsītèdān”“Mokum”
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Latitude
52.3732° or 52° 22′ 23″ north
Longitude
4.8917° or 4° 53′ 30″ east
UN/LOCODE
NL AMS
Open location code
9F469VFR+7M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Amsterdam” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Amsterdam”
- Afrikaans: “Amsterdam”
- Albanian: “Amsterdami”
- Amharic: “አምስተርዳም”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Amstelodhámon”
- Arabic: “أمستردام”
- Aragonese: “Amsterdam”
- Armenian: “Ամստերդամ”
- Arpitan: “Amsterdam”
- Arpitan: “Amstèrdame”
- Assamese: “আমষ্টাৰডাম”
- Asturian: “Ámsterdam”
- Avaric: “Амстердам”
- Awadhi: “एम्सटर्डम”
- Azerbaijani: “Amsterdam”
- Balinese: “Amsterdam”
- Bambara: “Amsterdam”
- Banjar: “Amsterdam”
- Bashkir: “Амстердам”
- Basque: “Amsterdam”
- Batak Mandailing: “Amsterdam”
- Bavarian: “Amsterdam”
- Belarusian: “Amstyerdam”
- Belarusian: “Амстэрдам”
- Bengali: “অ্যামস্টার্ডাম”
- Bengali: “আমস্টারডাম”
- Betawi: “Amsteredam”
- Bhojpuri: “एम्सटर्डम”
- Bosnian: “Amsterdam”
- Breton: “Amsterdam”
- Bulgarian: “Амстердам”
- Burmese: “အမ်စတာဒမ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Amsterdam”
- Cebuano: “Amsterdam (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Amsterdam”
- Central Bikol: “Amsterdam”
- Central Kanuri: “Amsterdam”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەمستەردام”
- Chavacano: “Amsterdam”
- Chechen: “Амстердам”
- Chinese: “荷京”
- Chinese: “阿姆斯特丹”
- Church Slavic: “Амстєрдамъ”
- Chuvash: “Амстердам”
- Cornish: “Amsterdam”
- Corsican: “Amsterdam”
- Crimean Tatar: “Amsterdam”
- Croatian: “Amsterdam”
- Czech: “Amsterdam”
- Czech: “Amsterodam”
- Danish: “Amsterdam”
- Dimli (individual language): “Amsterdam”
- Dutch: “020”
- Dutch: “A’dam”
- Dutch: “Aemstelredamme” (historical)
- Dutch: “Aemsterdam” (historical)
- Dutch: “AMS”
- Dutch: “Amsterdam”
- Dutch: “Asd”
- Dutch: “Damsko”
- Dutch: “Mokum Alef”
- Dutch: “Mokum”
- Dzongkha: “ཨམས་ཊར་ཌམ།”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امستردام”
- Emilian: “Amsterdam”
- Erzya: “Амстердам ош”
- Esperanto: “Amsterdamo”
- Estonian: “Amsterdam”
- Ewe: “Amsterdam”
- Extremaduran: “Ámsterdam”
- Faroese: “Amsterdam”
- Fiji Hindi: “Amsterdam”
- Fijian: “Amsterdam”
- Finnish: “Amsterdam”
- French: “A’dam”
- French: “Amsterdam”
- Friulian: “Amsterdam”
- Gagauz: “Amsterdam”
- Galician: “Ámsterdam”
- Galician: “Ámsterdan”
- Georgian: “ამსტერდამი”
- German: “Amsterdam”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Amsterdam”
- Gilaki: “آمستردام”
- Gothic: “𐌰𐌼𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰𐌼”
- Greek: “Ámsterdam”
- Greek: “Αμστελόδαμο”
- Greek: “Αμστελόδαμον”
- Greek: “Άμστερνταμ”
- Guarani: “Amsterdam”
- Guarani: “Amterdam”
- Gujarati: “એમ્સ્ટર્ડમ”
- Haitian: “Amstèdam”
- Hakka Chinese: “Â-mê-sṳ̂-thi̍t-tan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Amsterdam”
- Hausa: “Amsterdam”
- Hebrew: “אמסטרדם”
- Hindi: “एम्स्टर्डम”
- Hindi: “ऐम्स्टर्डैम”
- Hungarian: “Amszterdam”
- Iban: “Amsterdam”
- Icelandic: “Amsterdam”
- Ido: “Amsterdam”
- Iloko: “Amsterdam”
- Inari Sami: “Amsterdam”
- Indonesian: “Amsterdam”
- Ingush: “Амстердам”
- Interlingua: “Amsterdam”
- Interlingue: “Amsterdam”
- Irish: “Amstardam”
- Italian: “Amsterdam”
- Japanese: “Amusuterudamu”
- Japanese: “アムステルダム”
- Japanese: “モクム”
- Japanese: “北のヴェネツィア”
- Javanese: “Amsterdam”
- Jèrriais: “Amsterdam”
- Kabiyè: “Amstɛrɩdam”
- Kabyle: “Amesterdam”
- Kabyle: “Amsterdam”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Amsterdam”
- Kannada: “ಆಮ್ಸ್ಟರ್ಡ್ಯಾಂ”
- Kannada: “ಆಂಸ್ಟರ್ಡ್ಯಾಮ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Amsterdam”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Амстердам”
- Kashmiri: “ایٚمسٹرڈیم”
- Kashubian: “Amsterdam”
- Kazakh: “Амстердам, Нидерланды”
- Kazakh: “Амстердам”
- Kinyarwanda: “Amsterdam”
- Kirghiz: “Амстердам”
- Komering: “Amsterdam”
- Komi-Permyak: “Амстердам”
- Komi: “Амстердам”
- Korean: “Amseutereudam”
- Korean: “Amsŭt’erŭdam”
- Korean: “암스테르담”
- Kotava: “Amsterdam”
- Kurdish: “Amsterdam”
- Ladin: “A’dam”
- Ladin: “Amsterdam”
- Ladino: “Amsterdam”
- Lao: “ອຳສະເຕີດຳ”
- Latgalian: “Amsterdama”
- Latin: “Amestelledamme” (historical)
- Latin: “Amsteladamum”
- Latin: “Amstelodamum”
- Latvian: “Amsterdama”
- Lezghian: “Амстердам”
- Ligurian: “Amsterdam”
- Limburgan: “Amsterdam”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Amsterdam”
- Literary Chinese: “阿姆斯特丹”
- Lithuanian: “Amsterdamas”
- Livvi: “Amsterdamu”
- Lombard: “Amsterdam”
- Low German: “Amsterdam”
- Lower Sorbian: “Amsterdam”
- Luxembourgish: “Amsterdam”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Amsterdam”
- Macedonian: “Амстердам”
- Malagasy: “Amsterdam”
- Malay: “Amsterdam”
- Malayalam: “ആംസ്റ്റർഡാം”
- Maltese: “Amsterdam”
- Manx: “Amsterdam”
- Maori: “Amaterama”
- Maori: “Amsterdam”
- Marathi: “ॲम्स्टरडॅम”
- Marathi: “अॅम्स्टरडॅम”
- Mazanderani: “آمستردام”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Amsterdam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amsterdam”
- Minangkabau: “Amsterdam”
- Mingrelian: “ამსტერდამი”
- Moksha: “Амстердам”
- Moksha: “Амстэрдам”
- Mongolian: “Амстердам”
- Moroccan Arabic: “أمسطردام”
- Nauru: “Amsterdam”
- Navajo: “Tóígeed Łání”
- Neapolitan: “Amsterdam”
- Nepali: “आम्स्टर्डम”
- Newari: “एम्स्टर्ड्याम”
- Newari: “एम्स्तरद्याम”
- Northern Frisian: “Amsterdam”
- Northern Luri: “آمستردام”
- Northern Sami: “Amsterdam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amsterdam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amsterdam”
- Norwegian: “Amsterdam”
- Novial: “Amsterdam”
- Nyanja: “Amsterdam”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Amsterdam”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܡܣܛܪܕܐܡ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Amsteldamm”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Amsterdamm”
- Oriya: “ଆମଷ୍ଟରଡ଼୍ୟାମ”
- Ossetian: “Амстердам”
- Pampanga: “Amsterdam”
- Panjabi: “ਅਮਸਤੱਰਦਮ”
- Papiamento: “Amsterdam”
- Pennsylvania German: “Amsterdam”
- Persian: “آمستردام”
- Picard: “Amsterdam”
- Piemontese: “Àmsterdam”
- Polish: “Amsterdam”
- Portuguese: “Abstradam”
- Portuguese: “Amesterdã”
- Portuguese: “Amesterdão”
- Portuguese: “Amsterdã”
- Portuguese: “Amsterdam, Países Baixos”
- Portuguese: “Amsterdam”
- Portuguese: “Amsterdão”
- Portuguese: “Mastradama”
- Pushto: “امسټرډام”
- Quechua: “Amsterdam”
- Romanian: “Amsterdam”
- Romansh: “Amsterdam”
- Russia Buriat: “Амстердам”
- Russian: “Амстердам”
- Rusyn: “Амстердам”
- Sakizaya: “Amusetetan”
- Samogitian: “Amsterdams”
- Santali: “ᱟᱢᱥᱴᱚᱨᱰᱮᱢ”
- Sardinian: “Amsterdam”
- Saterfriesisch: “Amsterdam”
- Scots: “Amsterdam”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Amsterdam”
- Serbian: “Амстердам, Холандија”
- Serbian: “Амстердам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amsterdam”
- Shona: “Amsterdam”
- Sicilian: “Amsterdam”
- Silesian: “Amsterdam”
- Sindhi: “ايمسٽرڊيم”
- Sinhala: “ඇම්ස්ටර්ඩෑම්”
- Sinhala: “ඈම්ස්ටර්ඩෑම්”
- Skolt Sami: “Amsterdam”
- Slovak: “Amsterdam”
- Slovenian: “Amsterdam”
- Somali: “Amistardam”
- South Azerbaijani: “آمستردام”
- Southern Sotho: “Amsterdam”
- Spanish: “Ámsterdam”
- Sranan Tongo: “Damsko”
- Sundanese: “Amsterdam”
- Swahili: “Amsterdam”
- Swedish: “Amsterdam”
- Swiss German: “Amsterdam”
- Sylheti: “ꠀꠝꠁꠡ꠆ꠐꠣꠞꠒꠣꠝ”
- Tachelhit: “Amstirḍam”
- Tagalog: “Amsterdam”
- Tajik: “Амстердам”
- Talysh: “Amsterdam”
- Tamil: “ஆம்ஸ்டர்டம்”
- Tamil: “எம்ஸ்டர்டம்”
- Tatar: “Амстердам”
- Telugu: “ఆమ్స్టర్డ్యామ్ (నెదర్లాండ్స్ రాజధాని)”
- Telugu: “ఆమ్స్టర్డ్యామ్”
- Thai: “อัมสเตอร์ดัม”
- Tibetan: “ཨེམ་སི་ཊར་ཌམ།”
- Tigrinya: “ኣምስተርዳም”
- Tok Pisin: “Amstadem”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Amsterdam”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAmisetami”
- Turkish: “Amsterdam”
- Turkmen: “Amsterdam”
- Twi: “Amsterdam”
- Udmurt: “Амстердам”
- Uighur: “Amstérdam”
- Uighur: “ئامستېردام”
- Ukrainian: “Амстердам”
- Upper Sorbian: “Amsterdam”
- Urdu: “ایمسٹرڈیم”
- Uzbek: “Amsterdam”
- Venetian: “Amsterdam”
- Veps: “Amsterdam”
- Vietnamese: “Am-xtec-đam”
- Vietnamese: “Amsterdam”
- Vlaams: “A’dam”
- Vlaams: “Amsterdam”
- Vlaams: “Mokum”
- Vlax Romani: “Amsterdam”
- Volapük: “Amsterdam”
- Võro: “Amsterdam”
- Walloon: “Misterdam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amsterdam”
- Welsh: “Amsterdam”
- Western Armenian: “Ամսթերտամ”
- Western Frisian: “Amsterdam”
- Western Mari: “Амстердам”
- Western Panjabi: “ایمسٹرڈیم”
- Wolof: “Amsterdam”
- Wu Chinese: “阿姆斯特丹”
- Xhosa: “IAmsterdam”
- Yakut: “Амстердам”
- Yiddish: “Mokum Aleph”
- Yiddish: “Mokum”
- Yiddish: “אמסטערדאם”
- Yoruba: “Amsterdam”
- Yue Chinese: “阿姆斯特丹”
- Zeeuws: “Amsterdam”
- Zulu: “I-Amsterdami”
- “ma Ansetan”
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- “ma tomo Ansetan”
- “ma tomo Antetan”
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