Netherlands
Eastern Netherlands
Overijssel

Hengelo

Hengelo is a city in the , close to the border with . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 79,800 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in Overijssel, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Hemgelo” and “Hengeloo”
  • Postal codes: 7551-7559
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hengelo Railway Station and Hengelo Gezondheidspark railway station.

Railway station
Photo: T Houdijk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hengelo is a railway station in Hengelo, Netherlands. The station was opened on 18 October 1865 and is on the Almelo–Salzbergen railway and the Zutphen–Glanerbeek railway. It underwent a major renovation in 2010.

Railway station
Photo: Dennistw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hengelo Gezondheidspark is a railway station in Hengelo, .

Stadium
Photo: Fakwes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-use in Hengelo, . It is currently used mostly for athletics meets, especially the annual Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, and also was the venue for the European Athletics Junior Championships in July 2007.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Borne and Delden.

Town
Photo: Tubantia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and a town in the eastern , in the region of . Its inhabitants also have the nickname Melbuul. is situated 5 km northwest of Hengelo.

Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
is a city in the province of and, since 2001, in the municipality of . It received city rights in 1333. Twickel Castle is a famous landmark near . is situated 6 km west of Hengelo.

Hamlet
is a village in the municipality Hengelo in the province of . It is located south-west of Hengelo, south of the Twentekanaal. The highway A35 and the Provincial road 739|N739 are close to the population centre. is situated 3½ km southwest of Hengelo.

Hengelo

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
United Nations Location Code
NL HGL
Open location code
9F487Q8R+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 45952041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2754394
Wiki­data ID
Q10006
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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”
  • Cebuano: “Hengelo”
  • Chinese: “Hengelo”
  • Chinese: “亨厄洛”
  • Croatian: “Hengelo”
  • Czech: “Hengelo”
  • Danish: “Hengelo”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Hengelo”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Hengelo”
  • Dutch: “Hengelo (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Hengelo (O)”
  • Dutch: “Hengelo (Overijssel)”
  • Dutch: “Hengelo”
  • Esperanto: “Hengelo”
  • Estonian: “Hengelo”
  • Finnish: “Hengelo”
  • French: “Hengelo”
  • Georgian: “ჰენგელო”
  • German: “Hengelo”
  • Hebrew: “הנגלו”
  • Hungarian: “Hengelo”
  • Indonesian: “Hengelo”
  • Irish: “Hengelo”
  • Italian: “Hengelo”
  • Japanese: “ヘンゲロー”
  • Korean: “헹엘로”
  • Kurdish: “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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hengelo”. Photo: Tubantia, CC BY-SA 3.0.