Friesland

Friesland is a province of the . It is known for its unique language and culture. Friesland has a Nordic feel to it. It has a strong sports culture: ice skating is the most popular sport, and is done along indigenous sports such as fierljeppen and skûtjesilen.
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is the capital of the Dutch province Friesland in the north of the country.
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is the sports capital of the .
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, in Frisian called Snits, is a pleasant city…

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Although it is one of the eleven Frisian cities…
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is a municipality of Friesland in the northern .
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is the second largest town in the Dutch province of Friesland.
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is a city in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.
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is a city in in the province of Friesland, the .
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is an old city on the North of the on the .
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is a city located in the municipality of in Friesland, .
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, or Starum in Frysian, is a small city by the coast of the IJsselmeer.
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is a small village in the Dutch province of Friesland.
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While the are not well known among…

Friesland

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Latitude of center
53.0924° or 53° 5′ 33″ north
Longitude of center
5.777° or 5° 46′ 37″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4289960493
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2755812
Wiki­data ID
Q770

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Friesland” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Friesland”
  • Albanian: “Friesland”
  • Albanian: “Fryslân”
  • Amharic: “ፍሪስላንድ”
  • Arabic: “افريزلند”
  • Arabic: “افريزلَند”
  • Arabic: “فرايزلاند”
  • Arabic: “فريزلاند”
  • Arabic: “فريزلند”
  • Arabic: “فريزيا”
  • Aragonese: “Frisia”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրիզլանդ”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրիսլանդիա”
  • Asturian: “Frisia”
  • Asturian: “Fryslân”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frislandiya”
  • Balinese: “Friesland”
  • Basque: “Frisia”
  • Belarusian: “Фрысландыя”
  • Belarusian: “Фрысьлянд (Нідэрлянды)”
  • Belarusian: “Фрысьлянд”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রাইসল্যান্ড”
  • Breton: “Bro-Friz”
  • Breton: “Friz”
  • Breton: “Frizia”
  • Bulgarian: “Фризия”
  • Catalan: “Frísia”
  • Catalan: “Província de Frísia”
  • Cebuano: “Provincie Friesland”
  • Central Kurdish: “فریسلاند”
  • Chinese: “弗里斯兰省”
  • Chinese: “弗里斯蘭省”
  • Chuvash: “Фрисланди”
  • Croatian: “Friesland”
  • Czech: “Frísko”
  • Danish: “Frisland”
  • Dutch: “Friesland”
  • Dutch: “Fryslân”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Friesland”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Fryslân”
  • Dutch: “Westerlauwers Friesland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فرايزلاند”
  • Emilian: “Frìśia”
  • Esperanto: “Friesland”
  • Esperanto: “Frisio”
  • Esperanto: “Frislando”
  • Esperanto: “Frisujo”
  • Esperanto: “Fryslân”
  • Estonian: “Friisimaa provints”
  • Faroese: “Friesland”
  • Faroese: “Fryslân”
  • Finnish: “Friesland”
  • Finnish: “Friisinmaa”
  • Finnish: “Fryslân”
  • French: “Friesland”
  • French: “Frise (province)”
  • French: “Frise”
  • French: “Fryslân”
  • French: “province de Frise”
  • Galician: “Frisia, Países Baixos”
  • Galician: “Frisia”
  • Galician: “Fryslân”
  • Georgian: “ფრისლანდია”
  • German: “Friesland”
  • German: “Frieslande”
  • German: “Fryslân”
  • German: “Provinz Friesland”
  • German: “Westfriesland”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Φρίσλαντ”
  • Greek: “Φρησλανδία”
  • Greek: “Φρισία”
  • Greek: “Φρίσλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રાઈસલેન્ડ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Friesland”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fut-lî-sṳ̂-làn-sén”
  • Hausa: “Friesland”
  • Hebrew: “פריסלנד”
  • Hindi: “फ्राइजलैंड”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रीसलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Frízföld”
  • Icelandic: “Friesland”
  • Icelandic: “Frísland”
  • Ido: “Frisia”
  • Ido: “Frizia”
  • Indonesian: “Friesland”
  • Interlingua: “Frisia”
  • Irish: “an Fhreaslainn”
  • Irish: “An Fhreaslainn”
  • Irish: “Freaslainn”
  • Irish: “Fryslân”
  • Italian: “Frisia”
  • Japanese: “フリースラント州”
  • Javanese: “Friesland”
  • Javanese: “Fryslân”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೈಸ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kashubian: “Frizëjskô”
  • Kashubian: “Frizjô”
  • Kazakh: “Фризланд”
  • Kirghiz: “Фризланд”
  • Kölsch: “Friesland”
  • Kölsch: “Fryslân”
  • Korean: “프리슬란트 주”
  • Korean: “프리슬란트”
  • Korean: “프리슬란트주”
  • Kurdish: “Frîzya”
  • Kurdish: “Fryslân”
  • Ladin: “Friesland”
  • Latin: “Frisia”
  • Latvian: “Frīzlande”
  • Limburgan: “Friesland”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Frisland”
  • Lithuanian: “Fryzija”
  • Lombard: “Frieslant”
  • Lombard: “Frisia”
  • Low German: “Frēsland”
  • Low German: “Frieslaand”
  • Low German: “Fryslân”
  • Low German: “Perveencie Frieslaand”
  • Luxembourgish: “Friesland”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Friesland”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Frisland”
  • Macedonian: “Фризија”
  • Malay: “Friesland”
  • Malay: “Fryslân”
  • Manx: “Freeshlann”
  • Manx: “Yn Reeshlann (queiggey)”
  • Manx: “Yn Reeshlann”
  • Marathi: “फ्रीसलंड”
  • Mazanderani: “فریسلاند”
  • Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350): “Friesland”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fryslân Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Fryslân”
  • Nepali: “फ्राइजल्यान्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fryslân”
  • Northern Frisian: “Weestfraschlönj”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Friesland (Nederland)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Friesland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Friesland i Nederland”
  • Norwegian: “Friesland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Frisa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Frísia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Freslond”
  • Old French (842-ca. 1400): “Frise”
  • Old Saxon: “Frēsland”
  • Oromo: “Friesland”
  • Ossetian: “Фрисланди”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ੍ਰੀਸਲੈਂਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Friesland”
  • Persian: “فریسلاند”
  • Polish: “Fryzja”
  • Portuguese: “Friesland”
  • Portuguese: “Frísia”
  • Portuguese: “Fryslân”
  • Pushto: “فريزلند”
  • Quechua: “Friesland”
  • Quechua: “Fryslân pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Frizia”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Frizia”
  • Russian: “Фрисланд”
  • Russian: “Фрисландия”
  • Samogitian: “Frīzėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Frìsia”
  • Sardinian: “Fritza”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Fryslân”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Provinz Fryslân”
  • Scots: “Friesland”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fryslân”
  • Serbian: “Фризија”
  • Serbian: “Фрисланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Friesland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fryslân”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රීස්ලන්ත්”
  • Slovak: “Frízsko”
  • Slovenian: “Frizija”
  • Somali: “Friesland”
  • Somali: “Fryslân”
  • Spanish: “Friesland”
  • Spanish: “Frisia”
  • Spanish: “Fryslân”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Frisia”
  • Swahili: “Friesland”
  • Swahili: “Fryslân”
  • Swedish: “Friesland”
  • Swedish: “Frisland”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Фрисландия”
  • Tamil: “பிரீஸ்லாண்டு”
  • Tamil: “பிரைஸ்லாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Фризланд”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రైస్ లాండ్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฟรีสลันด์”
  • Turkish: “Frizya”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрисландія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Friziska”
  • Urdu: “فریسلانت”
  • Uzbek: “Friesland”
  • Venetian: “Frìxia”
  • Vietnamese: “Friesland”
  • Vietnamese: “Fryslân”
  • Vlaams: “Friesland”
  • Volapük: “Frisän”
  • Volapük: “Fryslân”
  • Walloon: “Province del Frize”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Friesland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fryslân”
  • Welsh: “Fryslân”
  • Western Frisian: “Fryslân”
  • Western Frisian: “Provinsje Fryslân”
  • Western Frisian: “Westerlauwersk Fryslân”
  • Western Panjabi: “فریزلینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗里斯兰省”
  • Yue Chinese: “菲士蘭”
  • Zeeuws: “Friesland”
  • “FRL”

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