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Hilversum

Hilversum is a medium-sized city in the area of in the . Once called the Garden of Amsterdam, most travellers still come over to cycle and hike through the surrounding forests and heathland.
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  • Type: City with 93,300 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in North Holland, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Hilvertsheim”
  • Postal codes: 1211-1218 and 1221-1223
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hilversum railway station and Hilversum Town Hall.

Railway station
Photo: Wolk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hilversum is a railway station in Hilversum, . It is located approximately 28 kilometres southeast of Amsterdam. It located on the – Amersfoort station part of the Amsterdam–Zutphen railway, with a branch to Utrecht Centraal station.

Town hall
Photo: GVR, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
The was designed by Willem Marinus Dudok to serve as seat of the municipal council of Hilversum in the . Construction was completed in 1931.

Railway station
Photo: Koplopermau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hilversum Media Park, previously called Hilversum NOS and Hilversum Noord, is a railway station in the city of Hilversum, . Opened on 25 September 1974, Hilversum Media Park is located on kilometre 27 of the Amsterdam–Zutphen railway, partly called the Gooilijn because of the it runs through.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laren and Bussum.

Photo: WeeJeeVee, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
is a town and municipality in the province of , . Located in the region, it is the oldest town in the area. Together with its neighbor , is among the most affluent towns in the Netherlands.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commuter town and former municipality in the region in the south east of the province of in the near Hilversum.

Village
is a village in the province of , . It is a part of the town of and the municipality of .

Hilversum

Latitude
52.2241° or 52° 13′ 27″ north
Longitude
5.1719° or 5° 10′ 19″ east
Population
93,300
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
QYI
United Nations Location Code
NL HVS
Open location code
9F4765FC+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 296056871
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2754064
Wiki­data ID
Q9934
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hilversum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hilversum”
  • Albanian: “Hilversum”
  • Arabic: “هلفرسوم”
  • Arabic: “هيلفرسوم”
  • Aragonese: “Hilversum”
  • Armenian: “Հիլվերսում”
  • Asturian: “Hilversum”
  • Balinese: “Hilversum”
  • Basque: “Hilversum”
  • Belarusian: “Гільвэрсум”
  • Belarusian: “Гільвэрсюм”
  • Belarusian: “Хілверсюм”
  • Breton: “Hilversum”
  • Catalan: “Hilversum”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Hilversum”
  • Cebuano: “Hilversum”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیلڤێرسۆم”
  • Chinese: “Hilversum”
  • Chinese: “希尔弗瑟姆”
  • Chinese: “希爾弗瑟姆”
  • Croatian: “Hilversum”
  • Czech: “Hilversum”
  • Danish: “Hilversum”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Hilversum”
  • Dutch: “Hilversum (plaats)”
  • Dutch: “Hilversum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيلفرسوم”
  • Esperanto: “Hilversum”
  • Estonian: “Hilversum”
  • Finnish: “Hilversum”
  • French: “Hilversum”
  • Galician: “Hilversum”
  • Georgian: “ჰილვერსუმი”
  • German: “Hilversum”
  • Greek: “Χίλφερσουμ”
  • Hebrew: “הילברסום”
  • Hungarian: “Hilversum”
  • Ido: “Hilversum”
  • Indonesian: “Hilversum”
  • Irish: “Hilversum”
  • Italian: “Hilversum”
  • Japanese: “ヒルフェルスヌ”
  • Japanese: “ヒルフェルスム”
  • Javanese: “Hilversum”
  • Korean: “힐베르쉼”
  • Kurdish: “Hilversum”
  • Latvian: “Hilversuma”
  • Limburgan: “Hilversum”
  • Lithuanian: “Hilversiumas”
  • Low German: “Hilversum”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hilversum”
  • Macedonian: “Хилверсум”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hilversum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hilversum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hilversum”
  • Norwegian: “Hilversum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hilversum”
  • Persian: “هیلفرسوم”
  • Polish: “Hilversum”
  • Portuguese: “Hilversum”
  • Romanian: “Hilversum”
  • Russian: “Хилверсюм”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hilversum”
  • Scots: “Hilversum”
  • Serbian: “Хилверсум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hilversum”
  • Silesian: “Hilversum”
  • Slovak: “Hilversum”
  • Slovenian: “Hilversum”
  • Spanish: “Hilversum”
  • Swahili: “Hilversum”
  • Swedish: “Hilversum”
  • Tatar: “Һилверсүм”
  • Thai: “ฮิลเวอร์ซัม”
  • Turkish: “Hilversum”
  • Ukrainian: “Гілверсум”
  • Ukrainian: “Гілверсюм”
  • Urdu: “ہلورسم”
  • Venetian: “Hilversum”
  • Vietnamese: “Hilversum”
  • Vlaams: “Hilversum”
  • Volapük: “Hilversum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hilversum”
  • Welsh: “Hilversum”
  • Western Frisian: “Hilfertsom”
  • Wu Chinese: “希尔弗瑟姆”
  • Zeeuws: “Hilversum”
  • “Hilversum”
  • “ma tomo Iwesun”

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