Hengelo
Hengelo is a city in the Eastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany. It's not on the usual tourist map, but is easy to reach and if you do find yourself here, it has some interesting museums and serves as a regional centre for shopping.
- Type: Town with 79,800 residents
- Description: city and municipality in Overijssel, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “gemeente Hengelo”, “Hemgelo”, “Hengelo (gemeente)”, “Hengelo (O)”, “Hengelo (Overijssel)”, and “Hengeloo”
- Postal codes: 7551-7559
- Neighbors: Dinkelland and Haaksbergen
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hengelo Railway Station and Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion.
Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion
Stadium
Hengelo Gezondheidspark railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borne and Delden.
Borne
Town
Delden
Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.Oele
Hamlet
Oele is a village in the municipality Hengelo in the Dutch province of Overijssel. Oele is situated 3½ km southwest of Hengelo.
Hengelo
- Categories: municipality of the Netherlands, city, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Overijssel, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.2659° or 52° 15′ 57″ north
Longitude
6.7924° or 6° 47′ 33″ east
Population
79,800
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
QYH
UN/LOCODE
NL HGL
Open location code
9F487Q8R+8X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hengelo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hengelo, Overijssel”
- Afrikaans: “Hengelo”
- Albanian: “Hengelo”
- Arabic: “هينجيلو”
- Armenian: “Հենգելո”
- Asturian: “Hengelo”
- Basque: “Hengelo”
- Belarusian: “Хенгела”
- Bulgarian: “Хенгело”
- Catalan: “Hengelo”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Hengelo”
- Chinese: “亨厄洛”
- Croatian: “Hengelo”
- Czech: “Hengelo”
- Danish: “Hengelo”
- Dutch: “Hengelo”
- Esperanto: “Hengelo”
- Estonian: “Hengelo”
- Finnish: “Hengelo”
- French: “Hengelo”
- Georgian: “ჰენგელო”
- German: “Hengelo”
- Hebrew: “הנגלו”
- Hindi: “हेंगलो”
- Hungarian: “Hengelo”
- Indonesian: “Hengelo”
- Irish: “Hengelo”
- Italian: “Hengelo”
- Japanese: “ヘンゲロー”
- Korean: “헹엘로”
- Kurdish: “Hengelo”
- Ladin: “Hengelo”
- Latvian: “Hengelo”
- Limburgan: “Hengelo”
- Lithuanian: “Hengelas”
- Low German: “Hengel”
- Luxembourgish: “Hengelo”
- Malay: “Hengelo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hengelo”
- Moksha: “Гэнгэло”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hengelo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hengelo”
- Norwegian: “Hengelo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hengelo”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܢܓܠܘ”
- Persian: “هنگلو”
- Polish: “Hengelo”
- Portuguese: “Hengelo”
- Romanian: “Hengelo”
- Russian: “Хенгело”
- Saterfriesisch: “Hengelo”
- Scots: “Hengelo”
- Serbian: “Хенгело”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hengelo”
- Slovenian: “Hengelo”
- Spanish: “Hengelo”
- Swahili: “Hengelo”
- Swedish: “Hengelo”
- Tatar: “Һеңело”
- Thai: “เฮงเงโล”
- Turkish: “Hengelo”
- Ukrainian: “Генгело”
- Ukrainian: “Генґело”
- Urdu: “ہینگیلو”
- Venetian: “Hengelo”
- Vietnamese: “Hengelo”
- Volapük: “Hengelo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hengelo”
- Welsh: “Hengelo”
- Western Frisian: “Hengelo”
- Zeeuws: “Hengelo”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hengelose Es and De Noork.
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