Flevoland
Flevoland is the Netherlands' youngest province, almost completely formed through land reclamation in the 20th century. It is fair to say that most tourists would find it less interesting than neighbouring provinces.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Almere and Lelystad.
Almere
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Almere is a city in Flevoland, a western province of the Netherlands which was reclaimed from the sea in the 20th century.
Lelystad
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Lelystad is the capital of the Dutch province of Flevoland. While overshadowed by the larger Almere and with a much less interesting town centre, Lelystad still has its fair share of tourist attractions, mostly found on the outskirts of the city.
Dronten
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Dronten is one of the six municipalities making up the province of Flevoland in the Netherlands. It encompasses the namesake town and two villages, Swifterbant and Biddinghuizen, as well as vast expanses of agricultural fields and plains left to nature.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Urk and Noordoostpolder.
Urk
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Urk is a town and municipality in the Dutch province of Flevoland. This former island is situated on the edge of the Noordoostpolder and directly connected to the IJsselmeer. Because of this people in Urk still say they are living 'on' Urk instead of 'in' Urk.
Noordoostpolder
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Noordoostpolder is a municipality in the province Flevoland, Netherlands. The whole area consists of reclaimed land in the north of Flevoland. Most travelers will be heading for Schokland, a former abandoned island that has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Zeewolde
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Zeewolde is a municipality and a town in the province of Flevoland in the Netherlands. It is located in the south-western corner of the Flevopolder, and is the least densely populated municipality of the already sparsely-populated Flevoland.
Flevoland
- Type: State with 423,000 residents
- Description: province of the Netherlands
- Also known as: “NL23”
- Neighbors: Friesland, Gelderland, North Holland, Overijssel, and Utrecht
- Categories: province of the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
52.4484° or 52° 26′ 54″ northLongitude of center
5.4235° or 5° 25′ 25″ eastPopulation
423,000Elevation
-6 metres (-20 feet)Inception
January 1st, 1986Operator
Provincie FlevolandAbbreviation
“fl”OpenStreetMap ID
node 4289948985OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3319179Wikidata ID
Q707
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Flevoland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Flevoland”
- Albanian: “Flevoland”
- Arabic: “افلِيفُلَند”
- Arabic: “فليفولاند”
- Arabic: “فليفولند”
- Aragonese: “Flevoland”
- Armenian: “Ֆլևոլանդ”
- Asturian: “Flevoland”
- Balinese: “Flevoland”
- Basque: “Flevoland”
- Belarusian: “Флеваланд”
- Belarusian: “Флевалянд”
- Bengali: “ফ্রিলে ফ্লেভোল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Flevoland”
- Bulgarian: “Флеволанд”
- Catalan: “Flevoland”
- Cebuano: “Provincie Flevoland”
- Central Kurdish: “فلێڤۆڵاند”
- Chinese: “Flevoland Séng”
- Chinese: “傅利禾蘭”
- Chinese: “夫利佛蘭”
- Chinese: “夫利佛蘭省”
- Chinese: “弗莱福兰”
- Chinese: “弗莱福兰省”
- Chinese: “弗萊福蘭”
- Chinese: “弗萊福蘭省”
- Chinese: “弗雷佛兰”
- Chinese: “弗雷佛兰省”
- Croatian: “Flevoland”
- Czech: “Flevoland”
- Danish: “Flevoland”
- Dutch: “FL”
- Dutch: “Flevoland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فليفولاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فليڤولاند”
- Esperanto: “Flevoland”
- Esperanto: “Flevolando”
- Estonian: “Flevoland”
- Estonian: “Flevolandi provints”
- Faroese: “Flevoland”
- Finnish: “Flevoland”
- French: “Flevoland”
- Galician: “Flevoland”
- Georgian: “ფლევოლანდი”
- German: “Flevoland”
- German: “Provinz Flevoland”
- Greek: “Φλεβολάνδη”
- Greek: “Φλέβολαντ”
- Greek: “Φλεφολανδία”
- Gujarati: “ફ્લેવોલેન્ડ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Flevoland”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fut-lòi-fuk-làn-sén”
- Hebrew: “פלבולנד”
- Hindi: “फ्लेवोलैंड”
- Hungarian: “Flevoland”
- Icelandic: “Flevoland”
- Ido: “Flevoland”
- Inari Sami: “Flevoland”
- Indonesian: “Flevoland”
- Interlingua: “Flevoland”
- Irish: “Flevoland”
- Italian: “Flevoland”
- Japanese: “フレヴォラント州”
- Javanese: “Flevoland”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ಲೀವೋಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Kölsch: “Flevoland”
- Korean: “플레볼란트 주”
- Korean: “플레볼란트”
- Korean: “플레볼란트주”
- Kurdish: “Flevoland”
- Latin: “Flevolandia”
- Latvian: “Flevolande”
- Limburgan: “Flevoland”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Flevoland”
- Lithuanian: “Flevolandas”
- Low German: “Flevolaand”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Flevoland”
- Macedonian: “Флеволанд”
- Malay: “Flevoland”
- Manx: “Flevoland”
- Marathi: “फ्लेव्होलांड”
- Mazanderani: “فلیوولاند”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Flevoland Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Flevoland”
- Nepali: “फ्लेभोल्यान्ड”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Flevolun”
- Northern Sami: “Flevolánda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flevoland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flevoland”
- Norwegian: “Flevoland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Flevoland”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Flēfaland”
- Ossetian: “Флеволанд”
- Persian: “فلیوولاند”
- Picard: “Flevoland”
- Polish: “Flevoland”
- Portuguese: “Flevolândia”
- Quechua: “Flevoland pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Flevoland”
- Russian: “Флеволанд”
- Saterfriesisch: “Flevolound”
- Scots: “Flevoland”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Flevoland”
- Serbian: “Флеволанд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Flevoland”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්ලෙවෝලන්ඩ්”
- Skolt Sami: “Flevolantt”
- Slovak: “Flevoland”
- Slovenian: “Flevoland”
- Somali: “Flevoland”
- Spanish: “Flevoland”
- Spanish: “Flevolanda”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Flevolanda”
- Swahili: “Flevoland”
- Swedish: “Flevoland”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Флеволанд”
- Tamil: “ஃபிலொவோலாந்து”
- Tamil: “பிலேவோலாண்டு”
- Tamil: “பிளேவோலன்ட்”
- Telugu: “ఫ్రెవోలాండ్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเฟลโฟลันด์”
- Turkish: “Flevoland”
- Ukrainian: “Флеволанд”
- Urdu: “فلیولانت”
- Venetian: “Flevoland”
- Veps: “Flevoland”
- Vietnamese: “Flevoland”
- Vlaams: “Flevoland”
- Volapük: “Flevoland”
- Walloon: “Flevoland”
- Walloon: “Province di Flevoland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Flevoland”
- Welsh: “Flevoland”
- Western Frisian: “Flevolân”
- Western Panjabi: “فلیولینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “弗莱福兰省”
- Yue Chinese: “傅利禾蘭”
- Zeeuws: “Flevoland”
- “Flevoland”
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