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Drenthe

Drenthe is a province in the northeast of the . It is bordered by in the south, in the west, to the north and the German districts of Emsland and Bentheim in the east.
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is a city in The Netherlands and is the capital of the province of Drenthe. 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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is a city of 56,000 people in Drenthe. It is a good base for those who want to discover the province. It has great cycling and walking routes create a feeling of freedom, such as the Oude Diep walking route or the Rosenboom cycling route.

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is a city in the southernmost point of the province of Drenthe. The city has a regional function for neighbouring Southwest Drenthe and the Kop van .

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is a small city in the south of the province of Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The municipality of also includes 37 other villages and hamlets, the largest being Dalen, Sleen, and Schoonoord.

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is a municipality in the north of the province of Drenthe, in the Netherlands. is named after a small village in the centre of the municipality, but the municipality also includes the larger towns Zuidlaren, Eelde-Paterswolde, and Vries.

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is a municipality in the north of the province of Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The name of the municipality refers to two small rivers, Drentsche Aa and Hunze.

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is a municipality of 31,000 people in the northwest of the province of Drenthe, The Netherlands. It is located in an area of forests, heathland, and bocage and comprises Roden, Norg, Peize, Veenhuizen, Steenbergen as well as 21 other small villages and hamlets.

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For the Dutch, the name of is inseparably linked to the horrors of World War II, as the Germans ran a large transit camp just a few kilometres out of the village centre.

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The are a region in northwestern Drenthe, the Netherlands, spanning across the northwestern half of Westerveld. The region is dominated by its past, and the Society for Benevolence that set up these colonies in the first place.

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is the biggest city in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands. Although is not a particularly interesting destination for travellers, it's well known in the Netherlands for its biggest attraction: the zoo.

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is a village in the province of Drenthe. It is in the municipality , about 15 km northwest of the town of . The music festival Vogelpop is hosted in .

Drenthe

Latitude of center
52.9068° or 52° 54′ 25″ north
Longitude of center
6.6368° or 6° 38′ 13″ east
Population
494,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Operator
Provincie Drenthe
Abbreviation
“dr”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4289951023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2756631
Wiki­data ID
Q772
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Drenthe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Drenthe”
  • Albanian: “Drenthe”
  • Arabic: “درنتة”
  • Arabic: “دَرِنتَة”
  • Arabic: “درينته”
  • Aragonese: “Drenthe”
  • Armenian: “Դրենթե”
  • Asturian: “Drenthe”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Drenthe”
  • Balinese: “Drenthe”
  • Basque: “Drenthe”
  • Belarusian: “Дрэнтэ”
  • Bengali: “ড্রেন্তে”
  • Breton: “Drenthe”
  • Bulgarian: “Дренте”
  • Catalan: “Drenthe”
  • Cebuano: “Provincie Drenthe”
  • Central Kurdish: “درێنتە”
  • Chinese: “Drenthe Séng”
  • Chinese: “德伦特省”
  • Chinese: “德倫特”
  • Croatian: “Drenthe”
  • Czech: “Drenthe”
  • Danish: “Drenthe”
  • Dutch: “DR”
  • Dutch: “Drenthe”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Drenthe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “درينته”
  • Esperanto: “Drenthe”
  • Esperanto: “Drento”
  • Estonian: “Drenthe provints”
  • Faroese: “Drenthe”
  • Finnish: “Drenthe”
  • French: “Drenthe”
  • Galician: “Drenthe”
  • Georgian: “დრენთე”
  • German: “Drente”
  • German: “Drenthe”
  • German: “Provinz Drenthe”
  • Greek: “Ντρέντε”
  • Gujarati: “ડ્રેન્થે”
  • Haitian: “Drent”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Drenthe-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Drenthe”
  • Hebrew: “דרנתה”
  • Hindi: “ड्रेंठे”
  • Hungarian: “Drenthe”
  • Icelandic: “Drenthe”
  • Ido: “Drenthe”
  • Indonesian: “Drenthe”
  • Interlingua: “Drenthe”
  • Irish: “Drenthe”
  • Italian: “Drenthe”
  • Japanese: “ドレンテ州”
  • Javanese: “Drenthe”
  • Kannada: “ಡ್ರೆಂಟೆ”
  • Kölsch: “Drenthe”
  • Korean: “드렌터 주”
  • Korean: “드렌터”
  • Korean: “드렌터주”
  • Kurdish: “Drenthe”
  • Latin: “Drenthia”
  • Latvian: “Drente”
  • Limburgan: “Drenthe”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Drenthe”
  • Lithuanian: “Drentė”
  • Low German: “Drenthe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Drenthe”
  • Macedonian: “Дренте”
  • Malay: “Drenthe”
  • Manx: “Drenthe”
  • Marathi: “द्रेंथ”
  • Mazanderani: “درنته”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Drenthe Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Drenthe”
  • Nepali: “ड्रेन्थे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Drenthe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Drenthe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Drenthe”
  • Norwegian: “Drenthe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Drenta”
  • Ossetian: “Дренте”
  • Persian: “درنته”
  • Polish: “Drenthe”
  • Portuguese: “Drente”
  • Portuguese: “Drenthe”
  • Pushto: “درنته”
  • Quechua: “Drenthe pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Drenthe”
  • Russian: “Дренте”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Drente”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Drenthe”
  • Scots: “Drenthe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Drenthe”
  • Serbian: “Дренте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Drenthe”
  • Sinhala: “ඩ්රෙන්තේ”
  • Slovak: “Drenthe”
  • Slovenian: “Drenthe”
  • Somali: “Drenthe”
  • Spanish: “Drente”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Drente”
  • Swahili: “Drenthe”
  • Swedish: “Drenthe”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Дренте”
  • Tamil: “டிரென்த்”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரெந்தே”
  • Tamil: “திரெந்தி”
  • Telugu: “డ్రెంతె”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเดรนเทอ”
  • Turkish: “Drenthe”
  • Ukrainian: “Дренте”
  • Urdu: “درینتے”
  • Uzbek: “Drenthe”
  • Venetian: “Drenthe”
  • Vietnamese: “Drenthe”
  • Vlaams: “Drenthe”
  • Volapük: “Drenthe”
  • Walloon: “Province di Drenthe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Drenthe”
  • Welsh: “Drenthe”
  • Western Frisian: “Drinte”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈرینتھ”
  • Wu Chinese: “德伦特省”
  • Yue Chinese: “德倫特”
  • Zeeuws: “Drenthe”
  • “Drenthe”

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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 “Drenthe”. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.