Emmen
Emmen is the biggest city in the province of Drenthe, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
Photo: Alias 0591, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 56,100 residents
- Description: town in Emmen Municipality, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Curtis Emne”
- Postal codes: 7811-7815 and 7821-7828
Photo: CrazyPhunk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: CrazyPhunk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Emmen railway station and Wildlands.
Emmen railway station
Railway station
Emmen is a terminus railway station located in Emmen, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 November 1905 and is located on the Zwolle–Emmen railway.
Wildlands
Zoo
Photo: Emmenaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wildlands, also known as Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen, is a zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands. It opened in March 2016, replacing the Emmen Zoo. It was built at a cost of 200 million euros.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westenesch and Weerdinge.
Westenesch
Hamlet
Westenesch is a hamlet in the Netherlands and it is part of the Emmen municipality in Drenthe. There are two dolmen in Westenesch.
Weerdinge
Village
Weerdinge is a neighbourhood and former village of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe.
Zuidbarge
Village
Photo: Silver Spoon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zuidbarge is a neighbourhood of Emmen and former village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. The windmill Zeldenrust has been restored and is open to the public.
Emmen
- Categories: town, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Emmen, Drenthe, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.7889° or 52° 47′ 20″ northLongitude
6.8939° or 6° 53′ 38″ eastPopulation
56,100Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL EMMOpen location code
9F48QVQV+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 868430925OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- 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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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 “Emmen”. Photo: Alias 0591, CC BY 2.0.