Giethoorn
Giethoorn is a picturesque village in Overijssel in the Netherlands. It is known as Venice of the North because of its extensive network of canals and 176 bridges.
- Type: Village with 2,570 residents
- Description: farm village in the Netherlands
- Postal code: 8355
Places of Interest
Highlights include De Lindenhof and Molengat.
De Lindenhof
Restaurant
De Lindenhof is a restaurant located in Giethoorn, Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in the period 1996-2004 and two Michelin stars in the period 2005–present.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weerribben-Wieden National Park and Kolderveense Bovenboer.
Weerribben-Wieden National Park
Weerribben-Wieden is a national park in the Eastern Netherlands. It's less known and smaller than some other parks in the country, but offers nice opportunities for canoeing and boat trips through a generally quiet landscape of water and peat.
Kolderveense Bovenboer
Hamlet
Kolderveense Bovenboer is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km east of Giethoorn.
Giethoorn
- Categories: cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, car-free place, and locality
- Location: Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.7411° or 52° 44′ 28″ north
Longitude
6.0774° or 6° 4′ 39″ east
Population
2,570
United Nations Location Code
NL GHO
Open location code
9F48P3RG+CX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Giethoorn from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Giethoorn” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Giethoorn”
- Arabic: “جيثورن”
- Arabic: “خيتهورن”
- Armenian: “Գիթհորն”
- Asturian: “Giethoorn”
- Azerbaijani: “Githorn”
- Basque: “Giethoorn”
- Bengali: “গিটহোর্ন”
- Catalan: “Giethoorn”
- Cebuano: “Giethoorn”
- Chinese: “Giethoorn”
- Chinese: “羊角村”
- Czech: “Giethoorn”
- Dutch: “Giethoorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيثورن”
- French: “Giethoorn”
- German: “Giethoorn”
- Greek: “Γκίτχορν”
- Hebrew: “חיטהורן”
- Indonesian: “Giethoorn”
- Irish: “Giethoorn”
- Italian: “Giethoorn”
- Korean: “힛호른”
- Ladin: “Giethoorn”
- Lithuanian: “Githornas”
- Low German: “Gieteren”
- Low German: “Gietern”
- Low German: “Giethoorn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Giethoorn”
- Persian: “خیتهورن”
- Polish: “Giethoorn”
- Portuguese: “Giethoorn”
- Russian: “Гитхорн”
- Serbian: “Hithorn”
- Spanish: “Giethoorn”
- Swedish: “Giethoorn”
- Tamil: “கீத்தூர்ன்”
- Turkish: “Giethoorn”
- Ukrainian: “Гітгорн”
- Ukrainian: “Ґітгорн”
- Urdu: “گیتھورن”
- Vietnamese: “Giethoorn”
- Welsh: “Giethoorn”
- Western Frisian: “Giethoorn”
- Western Frisian: “Giteren”
- Western Frisian: “Gythoarn”
- “Giethoorn”
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