Heerlen

Heerlen is a city in in the southeast of the Netherlands. In Roman times, it was a settlement named Coriovallum, which hosted a bathhouse, now the Thermenmuseum.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ter Worm Castle and Heerlen railway station.

Castle
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Ter Worm or Terworm Castle is a castle located in the municipality of Heerlen, , Netherlands. The castle is part of the Terworm estate.

Railway station
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Heerlen is a railway station located in Heerlen, .

Railway station
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Heerlen Woonboulevard is a railway station in Heerlen, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Landgraaf and Hoensbroek.

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is a city in the south of the country, famous for hosting Pinkpop, said to be the longest running pop festival in the world. It's also home to one of the largest indoor ski pistes in .

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is a town in , the southernmost region of the province of . It's part of the municipality of Heerlen but has a long, separate history and was an independent municipality until 1982.

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is a town and a municipality in the southeast of , the southernmost province of the . It forms part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration.

Heerlen

Latitude
50.8877° or 50° 53′ 16″ north
Longitude
5.9773° or 5° 58′ 38″ east
Population
67,900
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
Open location code
9F27VXQG+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2667692112
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2754651
Wiki­data ID
Q9799
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Heerlen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Heerlen”
  • Albanian: “Heerlen”
  • Arabic: “هيرلين”
  • Armenian: “Հեյրլեն”
  • Asturian: “Heerlen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Herlen”
  • Basque: “Heerlen”
  • Belarusian: “Хеерлен”
  • Belarusian: “Херлен”
  • Bengali: “হেরলেন”
  • Breton: “Heerlen”
  • Bulgarian: “Хеерлен”
  • Bulgarian: “Херлен”
  • Catalan: “Heerlen”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Heerlen”
  • Chinese: “Heerlen”
  • Chinese: “海尔伦”
  • Chinese: “海爾倫”
  • Czech: “Heerlen”
  • Danish: “Heerlen”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Heerlen”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Heerlen”
  • Dutch: “Heerlen (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Heerlen”
  • Esperanto: “Heerlen”
  • Finnish: “Heerlen”
  • French: “Heerlen”
  • Galician: “Heerlen”
  • German: “Coriovallum”
  • German: “Heerlen”
  • Greek: “Χέερλεν”
  • Gujarati: “હીર્લેન”
  • Hebrew: “הירלן”
  • Hungarian: “Heerlen”
  • Indonesian: “Heerlen”
  • Irish: “Heerlen”
  • Italian: “Heerlen”
  • Japanese: “ヘールレン”
  • Javanese: “Heerlen”
  • Kannada: “ಹೀರ್ಲೆನ್”
  • Korean: “헤이를런”
  • Kurdish: “Heerlen”
  • Ladin: “Heerlen”
  • Latin: “Coriovallum”
  • Latvian: “Hērlena”
  • Limburgan: “Heële”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirlenas”
  • Low German: “Heerlen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Heerlen”
  • Macedonian: “Херлен”
  • Malay: “Heerlen”
  • Marathi: “हेरलेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Heerlen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heerlen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heerlen”
  • Norwegian: “Heerlen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Heerlen”
  • Persian: “هیرلن”
  • Polish: “Heerlen”
  • Portuguese: “Heerlen”
  • Romanian: “Heerlen”
  • Russian: “Херлен”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Heerlen”
  • Scots: “Heerlen”
  • Serbian: “Херлен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heerlen”
  • Silesian: “Heerlen”
  • Sinhala: “හිර්ලෙන්”
  • Slovenian: “Heerlen”
  • Spanish: “Heerlen”
  • Swahili: “Heerlen”
  • Swedish: “Heerlen”
  • Tamil: “ஹீர்லேன்”
  • Telugu: “హీర్లేన్”
  • Thai: “เฮร์เลิน”
  • Turkish: “Heerlen”
  • Ukrainian: “Герлен”
  • Urdu: “ہیرلن”
  • Urdu: “ہیرلین”
  • Venetian: “Heerlen”
  • Vietnamese: “Heerlen”
  • Volapük: “Heerlen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Heerlen”
  • Welsh: “Heerlen”
  • Western Frisian: “Hearlen”
  • Western Frisian: “Heerlen”
  • Zeeuws: “Heerlen”
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