Emmen

Emmen is the biggest city in the province of , the Netherlands. Although Emmen 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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  • Type: City with 56,100 residents
  • Description: town in Emmen Municipality, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Curtis Emne”
  • Postal codes: 7811-7815 and 7821-7828
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Emmen railway station and Wildlands.

Railway station
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Emmen is a terminus railway station located in . The station was opened on 1 November 1905 and is located on the Zwolle–Emmen railway.

Zoo
Photo: Emmenaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Adventure Zoo Emmen, is a zoo in , the Netherlands. It opened in March 2016, replacing the Emmen Zoo. It was built at a cost of 200 million euros.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Angelslo and Bargeres.

Quarter
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is a neighbourhood of the city in , the . It is a former village which was annexed by Emmen.

Quarter
is a neighbourhood of the city in , the Netherlands. It was first mentioned in 1486 as "in der marcken unde essche to Berghe unde onder der Clocken to Empne", and means the farmland of - and .

Quarter
is a neighbourhood of the city of in , the . It was a former lake near Emmen.

Emmen

Latitude
52.7889° or 52° 47′ 20″ north
Longitude
6.8939° or 6° 53′ 38″ east
Population
56,100
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL EMM
Open location code
9F48QVQV+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 868430925
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2756136
Wiki­data ID
Q6807568
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Emmen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إمن”
  • Arabic: “إيمين”
  • Armenian: “Էմմեն”
  • Asturian: “Emmen”
  • Bulgarian: “Емен (Нидерландия)”
  • Bulgarian: “Емен”
  • Catalan: “Emmen”
  • Cebuano: “Emmen”
  • Chinese: “Emmen”
  • Chinese: “埃門”
  • Danish: “Emmen”
  • Dutch: “Emmen (Drenthe)”
  • Dutch: “Emmen”
  • Estonian: “Emmeni vald”
  • French: “Emmen”
  • German: “Emmen”
  • Greek: “Έμεν”
  • Hebrew: “אמן”
  • Indonesian: “Emmen”
  • Irish: “Emmen”
  • Italian: “Emmen”
  • Japanese: “エメン”
  • Korean: “에먼”
  • Korean: “엠먼”
  • Limburgan: “Emme”
  • Lithuanian: “Emenas”
  • Low German: “Emmen”
  • Macedonian: “Емен”
  • Marathi: “एमेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Emmen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Emmen”
  • Persian: “امن”
  • Polish: “Emmen”
  • Portuguese: “Emmen”
  • Romanian: “Emmen”
  • Russian: “Эммен”
  • Serbian: “Емен”
  • Slovenian: “Emmen”
  • Spanish: “Emmen”
  • Swedish: “Emmen”
  • Tatar: “Эммен”
  • Ukrainian: “Еммен”
  • Vietnamese: “Emmen, Drenthe”
  • Vietnamese: “Emmen”
  • Vlaams: “Emmen”
  • Western Frisian: “Emmen”
  • “Emmen”

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