Northern Netherlands
Friesland
Smallingerland Municipality

Drachten

Drachten is the second largest town in the Dutch province of . Today, it is home to some 45.000 inhabitants. Since it was only a small village until well in the 1950s, when it passed the 10,000 people mark, its historic heritage is somewhat limited, but the city today serves as the regional centre for shopping and services.
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  • Type: Town with 45,200 residents
  • Description: town in Smallingerland, Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 9201-9207

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Drachten and Thalenpark.

Museum
Photo: P. Martina, Public domain.

Park
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Hospital
Photo: Baykedevries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Opeinde and Kortehemmen.

Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of , and lies about 5 km north of Drachten. It had a population of around 1,656 in January 2017. is situated 3½ km northwest of Drachten.

Village
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is a village in municipality in the province of , the . It had a population of around 258 in January 2017.

Village
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is a village in municipality in the province of , the . It had a population of around 1,363 in January 2017. is situated 4 km north of Drachten.

Drachten

Latitude
53.1091° or 53° 6′ 33″ north
Longitude
6.0948° or 6° 5′ 41″ east
Population
45,200
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
QYC
United Nations Location Code
NL DRA
Open location code
9F58435V+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 235259159
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2756644
Wiki­data ID
Q60444
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Drachten” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Drachten”
  • Arabic: “دراختن”
  • Asturian: “Drachten”
  • Bulgarian: “Драчтен”
  • Catalan: “Drachten”
  • Cebuano: “Drachten”
  • Chinese: “Drachten”
  • Chinese: “德拉赫滕”
  • Danish: “Drachten”
  • Dutch: “Drachten”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دراختن”
  • Esperanto: “Drachten”
  • French: “Drachten”
  • German: “Drachten”
  • Hebrew: “דראכטן”
  • Hungarian: “Drachten”
  • Irish: “Drachten”
  • Italian: “Drachten”
  • Japanese: “ドラハテン”
  • Japanese: “ドラフテン”
  • Korean: “드라흐턴”
  • Latin: “Drachten”
  • Lithuanian: “Drachtenas”
  • Lombard: “Drachten”
  • Low German: “Drachten”
  • Luxembourgish: “Drachten”
  • Macedonian: “Драхтен”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Drachten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Drachten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Drachten”
  • Persian: “دراختن”
  • Polish: “Drachten”
  • Russian: “Драхтен”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Drachten”
  • Slovenian: “Drachten”
  • Spanish: “Drachten”
  • Swedish: “Drachten”
  • Turkish: “Drachten”
  • Ukrainian: “Драхтен”
  • Volapük: “Drachten”
  • Welsh: “Drachten”
  • Western Frisian: “Drachten”
  • Zeeuws: “Drachten”
  • “Drachten”

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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 “Drachten”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.