Gorinchem
Gorinchem is a fortified town in the Groene Hart region of South Holland. The town, while small, has a historic town center with a lot of character. Some foreign visitors have already discovered this gem, but it's still missing from the average guidebook and thus very authentic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 37,000 residents
- Description: Dutch municipality in South Holland
- Also known as: “Gorcum” and “Gorkum”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gorinchem railway station and Gorcums Museum.
Gorinchem railway station
Railway station
Photo: Fantaglobe11, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gorinchem is a railway station in the town of Gorinchem, Netherlands. It is on the MerwedeLingelijn. It was opened on 1 December 1883. Train services are operated by Qbuzz.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sleeuwijk and Woudrichem.
Sleeuwijk
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sleeuwijk is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant and part of the municipality of Altena.
Arkel
Village
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Arkel is a town in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. A part of the municipality of Molenlanden, it lies about 3 km north of Gorinchem. Arkel is a former municipality; in 1986 it became part of Giessenlanden. Arkel is situated 4 km north of Gorinchem.
Gorinchem
- Categories: municipality of the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Alblasserwaard-Drechtsteden, South Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8296° or 51° 49′ 47″ northLongitude
4.9739° or 4° 58′ 26″ eastPopulation
37,000Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)Open location code
9F36RXHF+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 4639544491OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2755433Wikidata ID
Q244327
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Gorinchem” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gorinchem”
- Albanian: “Gorinchem”
- Arabic: “خوريكوم”
- Armenian: “Խորինխեմ”
- Asturian: “Gorinchem”
- Basque: “Gorinchem”
- Belarusian: “Горынхем”
- Bulgarian: “Горинхем”
- Catalan: “Gorinchem”
- Catalan: “Gorkum”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Gorinchem”
- Chinese: “霍尔克姆”
- Chinese: “霍爾克姆”
- Czech: “Gorinchem”
- Danish: “Gorinchem”
- Dutch: “gemeente Gorinchem”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Gorinchem”
- Dutch: “Gorcum”
- Dutch: “Gorinchem (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Gorinchem”
- Dutch: “Gorkum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خوريكوم”
- Esperanto: “Gorinchem”
- French: “Gorinchem”
- French: “Gorkum”
- German: “Gorcum”
- German: “Gorinchem”
- German: “Gorkum”
- Greek: “Χόρινχεμ”
- Hebrew: “חורינכם”
- Hungarian: “Gorinchem”
- Indonesian: “Gorinchem”
- Irish: “Gorinchem”
- Italian: “Gorinchem”
- Japanese: “ゴルクム”
- Japanese: “ホルクム”
- Javanese: “Gorcum”
- Javanese: “Gorinchem”
- Javanese: “Gorkum”
- Korean: “고린험”
- Korean: “고린헴”
- Korean: “호르콤”
- Korean: “호르큄”
- Korean: “호린험”
- Korean: “호린헴”
- Kurdish: “Gorinchem”
- Latin: “Gorichemium”
- Latin: “Goricum”
- Limburgan: “Gorinchem”
- Limburgan: “Gorkem”
- Lithuanian: “Gorinchemas”
- Low German: “Gorkem”
- Low German: “Gorkum”
- Luxembourgish: “Gorinchem”
- Macedonian: “Горинхем”
- Malay: “Gorinchem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorinchem”
- Norwegian: “Gorinchem”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gorinchem”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gorkum”
- Ossetian: “Горинхем”
- Persian: “خورینخم”
- Polish: “Gorinchem”
- Polish: “Gorkum”
- Portuguese: “Gorcum”
- Portuguese: “Gorinchem”
- Romanian: “Gorinchem”
- Russian: “Горинхем”
- Santali: “ᱜᱳᱨᱤᱱᱪᱮᱢ”
- Saterfriesisch: “Gorinchem”
- Scots: “Gorinchem”
- Silesian: “Gorinchem”
- Slovak: “Gorinchem”
- Slovenian: “Gorinchem”
- Spanish: “Gorcum”
- Spanish: “Gorinchem”
- Spanish: “Gorkum”
- Swedish: “Gorinchem”
- Swedish: “Gorkum”
- Tatar: “Горинһем”
- Thai: “คอร์เกิม”
- Turkish: “Gorinchem”
- Ukrainian: “Горінхем”
- Venetian: “Gorinchem”
- Vietnamese: “Gorinchem”
- Vlaams: “Gorinchem”
- Volapük: “Gorinchem”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gorinchem”
- Welsh: “Gorinchem”
- Western Armenian: “Կորինխեմ”
- Western Frisian: “Garkum”
- Western Frisian: “Gorinchem”
- Western Frisian: “Gorkum”
- Zeeuws: “Gorkem”
- “Gorinchem”
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