Enschede

Enschede is a city in the . It is the largest city of the Twente region, and also of the province. Enschede was designated the greenest town in the Netherlands in 2003.
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  • Type: City with 151,000 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in Overijssel the Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 7511-7514, 7521-7525, 7531-7536, and 7541-7548
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Enschede Railway Station and De Museumfabriek.

Railway station
Enschede is the main railway station in Enschede, Netherlands. The station opened on 1 July 1866 and is on the Zutphen–Glanerbeek railway. Between the late 1970s and 2001, the passenger service to stopped.

Museum
is a merger of the former Jannink Museum of Textiles, the Museum of National History and the Van Deinse Institute on Social Life. The is located in Enschede, .

Hospital
The is the hospital of the city of Enschede in The Netherlands. It is a clinical teaching center, offering secondary and limited tertiary care.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lonneker and Usselo.

Village
is a village in , in the province of . It is located in the municipality of Enschede, about 3 km north of the city centre.

Village
is a Dutch village in the municipality of Enschede in the eastern region of . It is located just west of Enschede and east of .

Village
is a town east of the city of Enschede, the Netherlands. It is close to the border with Germany, formed by the stream Glanerbeek, and the city of .

Enschede

Latitude
52.221° or 52° 13′ 16″ north
Longitude
6.8941° or 6° 53′ 39″ east
Population
151,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
IATA airport code
ENS
United Nations Location Codes
NL ENS and NL ENX
Open location code
9F486VCV+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3836540471
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2756071
Wiki­data ID
Q10002
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Enschede” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Enschede
  • Albanian: Enschede
  • Arabic: أنسخديه
  • Arabic: أنشخيده
  • Arabic: إنسخيده
  • Arabic: انشيده
  • Aragonese: Enschede
  • Armenian: Էնշխեյդե
  • Armenian: Էնսխեդե
  • Asturian: Enschede
  • Azerbaijani: Ensxede
  • Balinese: Enschede
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  • Belarusian: Энсхедэ
  • Belarusian: Энсхэдэ
  • Bengali: এন্সকেডি
  • Breton: Enschede
  • Bulgarian: Енсхеде
  • Catalan: Enschede
  • Cebuano: Enschede
  • Cebuano: Gemeente Enschede
  • Chinese: Enschede
  • Chinese: 恩斯希德
  • Chinese: 恩斯赫德
  • Croatian: Enschede
  • Czech: Enschede
  • Danish: Enschede
  • Dutch: Enschede (gemeente)
  • Dutch: Enschede (plaats)
  • Dutch: Enschede
  • Dutch: Enschedé
  • Dutch: gemeente Enschede
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  • Esperanto: Enschede
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  • Galician: Enschede
  • Georgian: ენსხედე
  • German: Enschede
  • Greek: Ενσχέντε
  • Greek: Ένσχεντε
  • Gujarati: એન્સચેડે
  • Hebrew: אנסחדה
  • Hindi: इंसकेडी
  • Hungarian: Enschede
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  • Ido: Enschede
  • Indonesian: Enschede
  • Interlingue: Enschede
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  • Japanese: エンスヘーデ
  • Japanese: エンスヘデ
  • Kannada: ಎನ್ಸ್ಕೆಡೆ
  • Korean: 엔스헤더
  • Korean: 엔스헤데
  • Kurdish: Enschede
  • Latin: Enscheda
  • Latvian: Enshede
  • Limburgan: Enschede
  • Limburgan: Ensjedee
  • Lithuanian: Enschedė
  • Low German: Eanske
  • Luxembourgish: Enschede
  • Macedonian: Енсхеде
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  • Marathi: एन्सेडे
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: Enschede
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  • Occitan (post 1500): Enschede
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܢܫܟܕܐ
  • Ossetian: Энсхеде
  • Persian: انسخده
  • Polish: Enschede
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  • Romanian: Enschede
  • Russian: Энсхеде
  • Saterfriesisch: Enschede
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  • Serbian: Енсхеде
  • Serbo-Croatian: Enschede
  • Silesian: Enschede
  • Sinhala: එන්චිඩේ
  • Slovak: Enschede
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  • Swahili: Enschede
  • Swedish: Enschede
  • Tamil: எஸ்செதே
  • Tatar: Энсхеде
  • Telugu: ఇన్స్కెడె
  • Thai: เอนสเกเด
  • Thai: เอ็นสเคอเด
  • Thai: แอ็นสเคอเด
  • Turkish: Enschede
  • Ukrainian: Енсхеде
  • Urdu: انسخدئے
  • Venetian: Enschede
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  • Vlaams: Enschede
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  • Waray (Philippines): Enschede
  • Welsh: Enschede
  • Western Frisian: Enskede
  • Western Frisian: Ynskedee
  • Western Panjabi: انشیدے
  • Wu Chinese: 恩斯赫德
  • Yue Chinese: 恩斯希德
  • Zeeuws: Enschede
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