Delft
Delft is a mid-sized city in the west of the Netherlands. It's a beautiful, unspoiled town with traditional architecture, canals and bikes. It's also home to the world famous blue and white ceramics.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Tukka, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nieuwe Kerk and Museum Het Prinsenhof.
Nieuwe Kerk
Church
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Nieuwe Kerk is a Protestant church in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. The building is located on Delft Market Square, opposite to the City Hall.
Museum Het Prinsenhof
Museum
Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Het Prinsenhof is a museum in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. Formerly the monastery of St Agatha, the building changed purpose over time. The whole building came into the possession of Delft City Council by 1925, who gradually converted the building into a museum.
City hall Delft
Town hall
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The City Hall in Delft is a Renaissance style building on the Markt across from the Nieuwe Kerk. It is the seat of the city's government as well as a popular venue for civic wedding ceremonies.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rijswijk and Pijnacker.
Rijswijk
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rijswijk is a city in the province South Holland in the Netherlands. It is a small city, which evolved around a tiny city core. The name is derived of 'rijshout', a type of wood which grew in the area and the word 'wijc', which was used for settlement in medieval times.
Pijnacker
Town
Photo: Debot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pijnacker is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is bordered by Zoetermeer to the north, by Nootdorp to the northwest, by Delfgauw to the southwest, by Rotterdam to the south and by Berkel en Rodenrijs to the east.
Leidschenveen-Ypenburg
Suburb
Leidschenveen-Ypenburg is a Vinex-location and district of The Hague, located in the southeast. It is geographically connected to the main body of the city by only a narrow corridor.
Delft
Latitude
52.0114° or 52° 0′ 41″ northLongitude
4.3584° or 4° 21′ 30″ eastPopulation
101,000Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL DFTOpen location code
9F462965+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 274247451OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Delft” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Delft, Nederland”
- Afrikaans: “Delft”
- Albanian: “Delft”
- Arabic: “دلفت”
- Armenian: “Դելֆտ”
- Asturian: “Delft”
- Azerbaijani: “Delft”
- Balinese: “Delft”
- Basque: “Delft”
- Belarusian: “Дэлфт”
- Belarusian: “Дэльфт”
- Bengali: “ডেলফট”
- Breton: “Delft”
- Bulgarian: “Делфт”
- Catalan: “Delft”
- Cebuano: “Delft”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Delft”
- Central Kurdish: “دێڵفت”
- Chinese: “代尔夫特”
- Chinese: “代爾夫特”
- Chinese: “德爾夫特”
- Chuvash: “Делфт”
- Corsican: “Delft”
- Czech: “Delft”
- Danish: “Delft”
- Dutch: “Delft (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Delft (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Delft”
- Dutch: “gemeente Delft”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Delft”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دلفت”
- Esperanto: “Delft”
- Esperanto: “Delfto”
- Estonian: “Delft”
- Finnish: “Delft”
- French: “Delft”
- Galician: “Delft”
- Georgian: “დელფტი”
- German: “Delft”
- Greek: “Ντελφτ”
- Gujarati: “ડેલ્ફ્ટ”
- Hebrew: “דלפט”
- Hindi: “डेल्फ़्ट”
- Hungarian: “Delft”
- Icelandic: “Delft”
- Ido: “Delft”
- Indonesian: “Delft”
- Irish: “Delft”
- Italian: “Delft”
- Japanese: “デルフト”
- Japanese: “デルフト市”
- Javanese: “Delft”
- Kannada: “ಡೆಲ್ಫ್ಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Делфт”
- Korean: “델프트”
- Kurdish: “Delft”
- Latin: “Delfum”
- Latin: “Delphi”
- Latvian: “Delfta”
- Limburgan: “Delft”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Delft”
- Lithuanian: “Delftas”
- Low German: “Delft”
- Luxembourgish: “Delft”
- Macedonian: “Делфт”
- Malay: “Delft”
- Maltese: “Delft”
- Manx: “Delft”
- Marathi: “डेल्फ़्ट”
- Moksha: “Дэльфт”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ديلفت”
- Nepali: “डेल्फ्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Delft”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delft”
- Norwegian: “Delft”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Delft”
- Ossetian: “Делфт”
- Persian: “دلفت”
- Piemontese: “Delft”
- Polish: “Delft”
- Portuguese: “Delft”
- Pushto: “دِلفت”
- Quechua: “Delft”
- Romanian: “Delft”
- Russian: “Делфт”
- Rusyn: “Делфт”
- Saterfriesisch: “Delft”
- Scots: “Delft”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Delft”
- Serbian: “Делфт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Delft”
- Silesian: “Delft”
- Sinhala: “ඩෙල්ෆ්ට්”
- Slovak: “Delft”
- Slovenian: “Delft”
- Spanish: “Delft”
- Swahili: “Delft”
- Swedish: “Delft”
- Tajik: “Делфт”
- Tamil: “டெல்ஃப்ட்”
- Tatar: “Делфт”
- Telugu: “డెల్ఫ్ట్”
- Thai: “เดลฟท์”
- Turkish: “Delft”
- Ukrainian: “Делфт”
- Urdu: “دیلفت”
- Venetian: “Delft (Paéxi Basi)”
- Venetian: “Delft”
- Vietnamese: “Delft”
- Vlaams: “Delft”
- Volapük: “Delft”
- Waray (Philippines): “Delft”
- Welsh: “Delft”
- Western Armenian: “Տելգդ”
- Western Frisian: “Delft”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈیلفٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “代尔夫特”
- Yiddish: “דעלפט”
- Yue Chinese: “德爾夫特”
- Zeeuws: “Delft”
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