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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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Leeuwarden and Heerenveen.

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is the capital of the Dutch province Friesland in the north of the country. and Friesland as a whole are often overlooked by visitors.

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is the sports capital of the . The town is famously home to the Thialf stadium, the largest indoor ice arena in the country and the stage for many international ice skating tournaments.

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, in Frisian called Snits, is a pleasant city right in the heart of the district, in the . It's a bustling centre for water sports, boating and ice skating, but also home to monumental architecture and lovely town views.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Harlingen and De Fryske Marren.

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Although it is one of the eleven Frisian cities, is perhaps the least Frisian of them all, and few people speak the Frisian language as their mother tongue.

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is a municipality of Friesland in the northern . It was established 1 January 2014 and consists of the former municipalities of Gaasterlân-Sleat, Lemsterland, Skarsterlân and parts of Boarnsterhim, all four of which were dissolved on the same day.

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is the second largest town in the Dutch province of Friesland. Today, it is home to some 45.000 inhabitants. Since it was only a small village until well in the 1950s, when it passed the 10,000 people mark, its historic heritage is somewhat limited, but the city today serves as the regional centre for shopping and services.

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is a city in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It is most notable for its Eise Eisenga Planetarium, the oldest still in operation, and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023.

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is a city in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the . has a population of just under 10,200. It is located 10 km W.N.W. of .

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is an old city on the North of the on the . It lies within the municipality of Súdwest Fryslân. It is famous because of the art and costume.

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is a city located in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, . It received city rights in 1399 and is one of the eleven cities of Friesland. It had a population of 4,435 in January 2017.

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, or Starum in Frysian, is a small city by the coast of the IJsselmeer. It is the oldest city of Frysia in the .

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is a small village in the Dutch province of Friesland. It has around 1,050 residents.

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While the are not well known among foreigners, the locals flock to this tourist area in great numbers. The consist of 24 lakes in central and southwest Friesland that attract boaters from all over the country in the summer.

Friesland

Latitude of center
53.0924° or 53° 5′ 33″ north
Longitude of center
5.777° or 5° 46′ 37″ east
Population
650,000
Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)
Operator
Provincie Fryslân
Abbreviation
“fr”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4289960493
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
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”
  • 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: “Fryslân Séng”
  • Chinese: “弗里斯兰省”
  • Chinese: “弗里斯蘭省”
  • Chinese: “菲士蘭”
  • Chuvash: “Фрисланди”
  • Croatian: “Friesland”
  • Czech: “Frísko”
  • Danish: “Frisland”
  • Dutch: “Friesland”
  • Dutch: “Fryslân”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Friesland”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Fryslân”
  • Dutch: “Westerlauwers Friesland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فرايزلاند”
  • 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”
  • French: “Fryslân”
  • Galician: “Frisia, Países Baixos”
  • Galician: “Frisia”
  • Galician: “Fryslân”
  • Georgian: “ფრისლანდია”
  • German: “Friesland”
  • German: “Frieslande”
  • German: “Fryslân”
  • German: “Provinz Friesland”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Φρίσλαντ”
  • Greek: “Φρησλανδία”
  • Greek: “Φρισία”
  • Greek: “Φρίσλαντ”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રાઈસલેન્ડ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Friesland”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fut-lî-sṳ̂-làn-sén”
  • Hebrew: “פריסלנד”
  • Hindi: “फ्राइजलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Frízföld”
  • 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”
  • Kölsch: “Friesland”
  • Kölsch: “Fryslân”
  • Korean: “프리슬란트 주”
  • Korean: “프리슬란트”
  • Korean: “프리슬란트주”
  • Kurdish: “Frîzya”
  • Kurdish: “Fryslân”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Фрисланди”
  • Papiamento: “Friesland”
  • Persian: “فریسلاند”
  • Polish: “Fryzja”
  • Portuguese: “Friesland”
  • Portuguese: “Frísia”
  • Portuguese: “Fryslân”
  • 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”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రైస్ లాండ్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฟรีสลันด์”
  • Turkish: “Frizya”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрисландія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Friziska”
  • Urdu: “فریسلانت”
  • Uzbek: “Flevoland”
  • 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”
  • “Friesland”
  • “Frìśia”
  • “Frīzėjė”
  • “FRL”
  • “Fryslân”

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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 “Friesland”. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.