Edam
Edam is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. Its main claim to international fame is Edam cheese. Edam is part of the Zaanstreek-Waterland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,080 residents
- Description: town in Edam-Volendam, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Edam, Netherlands”
- Postal code: 1135
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edam Fort and Kras Stadion.
Edam Fort
Fort
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
The Fort near Edam is a Dutch fort that is part of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It lies near the city of Edam. The fort protected the Edam lock, which was used to flood the Zeevang polder. The fort was finished between 1908 and 1914.
Kras Stadion
Stadium
Photo: Roelzzz, Public domain.
The Kras Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Volendam, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Volendam. The stadium is able to hold 6,984 people and was built in 1975.
Grote of Sint-Nicolaaskerk, Edam
Church
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
Grote of Sint-Nicolaaskerk, Edam is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Volendam and Middelie.
Volendam
Volendam is a fishing village in North Holland, 20 km north of Amsterdam. Sometimes called "the pearl of the Zuiderzee", this place is a highly popular tourist destination.
Middelie
Village
Photo: Marjon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Middelie is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Edam-Volendam, and lies about 5 km northeast of Purmerend. Middelie is situated 4 km northwest of Edam.
Edam
Latitude
52.5119° or 52° 30′ 43″ northLongitude
5.0563° or 5° 3′ 23″ eastPopulation
7,080Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL EDMOpen location code
9F47G364+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 7162633372OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Edam” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Edam”
- Albanian: “Edam”
- Arabic: “إدام”
- Asturian: “Edam”
- Belarusian: “Эдам”
- Breton: “Edam”
- Catalan: “Edam”
- Cebuano: “Edam”
- Chinese: “Edam”
- Chinese: “埃丹”
- Czech: “Edam”
- Danish: “Edam”
- Dutch: “Edam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ادام”
- Esperanto: “Edam”
- Finnish: “Edam”
- French: “Edam”
- Galician: “Edam”
- German: “Edam”
- Greek: “Εϊντάμ”
- Greek: “Ένταμ”
- Hebrew: “אדאם”
- Hebrew: “אדם”
- Hungarian: “Edam”
- Indonesian: “Edam”
- Irish: “Edam”
- Italian: “Edam”
- Japanese: “エダム”
- Korean: “에담”
- Kurdish: “Edam, Holenda Bakur”
- Luxembourgish: “Edam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Edam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Edam”
- Norwegian: “Edam”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Edam”
- Persian: “ایدام، هلند”
- Polish: “Edam”
- Portuguese: “Edam”
- Romanian: “Edam”
- Russian: “Эдам”
- Slovak: “Edam”
- Slovenian: “Edam”
- Spanish: “Edam”
- Swedish: “Edam”
- Turkish: “Edam”
- Ukrainian: “Едам”
- Volapük: “Edam”
- Western Frisian: “Edam”
- Zeeuws: “Edam”
- “Edam”
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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 “Edam”. Photo: Microtoerisme, CC BY-SA 3.0.