Heerlen
Heerlen is a city in South Limburg in the southeast of the Netherlands. In Roman times, it was a settlement named Coriovallum, which hosted a bathhouse, now the Thermenmuseum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 86,800 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Neighbors: Aachen, Kerkrade, Landgraaf, and Simpelveld
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ter Worm Castle and Heerlen railway station.
Ter Worm Castle
Castle
Photo: Pivos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ter Worm or Terworm Castle is a castle located in the municipality of Heerlen, Limburg Province, Netherlands. The castle is part of the Terworm estate.
Heerlen railway station
Railway station
Heerlen is a railway station located in Heerlen, Netherlands.
Heerlen Woonboulevard railway station
Railway station
Photo: Draak der Verhalen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heerlen Woonboulevard is a railway station in Heerlen, Netherlands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Landgraaf and Hoensbroek.
Landgraaf
Photo: Maurice van Bruggen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Landgraaf is a Dutch 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 Europe.
Hoensbroek
Photo: timo beil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoensbroek is a town in South Limburg, the southernmost region of the Dutch province of Limburg. It's part of the municipality of Heerlen but has a long, separate history and was an independent municipality until 1982.
Kerkrade
Photo: Romaine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kerkrade is a town and a municipality in the southeast of Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands. It forms part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration.
Heerlen
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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”
- “Heerlen”
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