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Assen

Assen is a city in The Netherlands and is the capital of the province of . Assen is the place to go for Dutch motorsports fans, as it is home to the TT Circuit where the annual Dutch TT Race is held.
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  • Type: City with 70,400 residents
  • Description: municipality in and capital city of Drenthe, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Assen Municipality”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Drents Museum and Assen railway station.

Museum
Photo: CrazyPhunk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an art and history museum in Assen, , the Netherlands. Opened in 1854, it has a collection of prehistoric artifacts, applied art and visual art, as well as temporary exhibitions. In 2023, it had 179,345 visitors.

Railway station
Photo: Fantaglobe11, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Assen is a railway station located in Assen, . The station was opened on 1 May 1870 and is located on the Meppel–Groningen railway. The station is operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Museum
Photo: Grasmat, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ter Aard and Witten.

Hamlet
Photo: G. Oosterveen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet in the and is part of the Assen municipality in . is a statistical entity, and has its own postal code, however it is considered a part of .

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the and is part of the Assen municipality in . is a statistical entity, however the postal authority have placed it under Assen.

Village
is a village in the and is part of the Assen municipality in . The hunebed D15 is located near the village.

Assen

Latitude
52.9952° or 52° 59′ 43″ north
Longitude
6.5605° or 6° 33′ 38″ east
Population
70,400
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
9F48XHW6+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29629883
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2759632
Wiki­data ID
Q798
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Assen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Assen”
  • Albanian: “Assen”
  • Arabic: “أسن”
  • Aragonese: “Assen”
  • Armenian: “Ասսեն”
  • Asturian: “Assen”
  • Balinese: “Assen”
  • Basque: “Assen”
  • Belarusian: “Асен”
  • Belarusian: “Асэн”
  • Bengali: “আস্সেন”
  • Breton: “Assen”
  • Bulgarian: “Асен”
  • Catalan: “Assen”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Assen”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاسن”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاسێن”
  • Chinese: “Assen”
  • Chinese: “阿森”
  • Croatian: “Assen”
  • Czech: “Assen”
  • Danish: “Assen”
  • Dutch: “Assen”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Assen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسسين”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسن”
  • Esperanto: “Assen”
  • Estonian: “Assen”
  • Faroese: “Assen”
  • Finnish: “Assen”
  • French: “Assen”
  • Galician: “Assen”
  • German: “Assen”
  • Greek: “Άσσεν”
  • Gujarati: “આસેન”
  • Hebrew: “אסן”
  • Hindi: “एस्सेन”
  • Hungarian: “Assen”
  • Icelandic: “Assen”
  • Ido: “Assen”
  • Indonesian: “Assen”
  • Irish: “Assen”
  • Italian: “Assen”
  • Japanese: “アッセン”
  • Javanese: “Assen”
  • Kannada: “ಆಸೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ассен”
  • Korean: “아선”
  • Kurdish: “Assen”
  • Latin: “Assen”
  • Latvian: “Asena”
  • Limburgan: “Asse”
  • Limburgan: “Assen”
  • Lithuanian: “Asenas”
  • Low German: “Assen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Assen”
  • Macedonian: “Асен”
  • Malay: “Assen”
  • Marathi: “आसेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Assen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Assen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Assen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Assen”
  • Norwegian: “Assen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Assen”
  • Ossetian: “Ассен”
  • Persian: “آسن”
  • Piemontese: “Assen”
  • Polish: “Assen”
  • Portuguese: “Assen”
  • Pushto: “آسن”
  • Quechua: “Assen”
  • Romanian: “Assen”
  • Russian: “Ассен”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Assen”
  • Scots: “Assen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Assen”
  • Serbian: “Асен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Assen”
  • Silesian: “Assen”
  • Sinhala: “ඇසසෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Assen”
  • Slovenian: “Assen”
  • Spanish: “Assen”
  • Swahili: “Assen”
  • Swedish: “Assen”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்சென்”
  • Telugu: “అస్సేన్”
  • Thai: “อาสเซิน”
  • Turkish: “Assen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ассен”
  • Urdu: “آسن”
  • Uzbek: “Assen”
  • Venetian: “Assen”
  • Vietnamese: “Assen”
  • Vlaams: “Assen”
  • Volapük: “Assen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Assen”
  • Welsh: “Assen”
  • Western Frisian: “Assen”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿森”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿森”
  • Zeeuws: “Assen”
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