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Hoorn

Hoorn is an old city in the Dutch province of North-Holland. Hoorn is well known in the Netherlands for its rich history. Many of the houses in the historical city centre date back to the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in the area north of the harbour.
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  • Type: Town with 72,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Hoorn Municipality”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Westfries Museum and Hoorn railway station.

Museum
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The , in Hoorn, , is a history museum of 17th century Hoorn and the region.

Railway station
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Hoorn is the main railway station of the town of Hoorn, .

Hospital
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is a hospital.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wognum and Blokker.

Village
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is a former municipality and a town in the , in the province of . received city rights in 1392 but lost them in 1426. is situated 4½ km northwest of Hoorn.

Village
is a village in the northwest , in the province of and the region of West Friesland.

Village
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is a village in the . It is located in the municipality of Hoorn, the province of and the region of West Friesland.

Hoorn

Latitude
52.6533° or 52° 39′ 12″ north
Longitude
5.0736° or 5° 4′ 25″ east
Population
72,500
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
9F47M33F+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240767902
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2753635
Wiki­data ID
Q9938
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hoorn” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hoorn”
  • Albanian: “Hoorn”
  • Arabic: “هورن”
  • Aragonese: “Hoorn”
  • Armenian: “Հորն”
  • Asturian: “Hoorn”
  • Balinese: “Hoorn”
  • Basque: “Hoorn”
  • Belarusian: “Хорн (Нідэрланды)”
  • Belarusian: “Хорн”
  • Bengali: “হুর্ণ”
  • Breton: “Hoorn”
  • Bulgarian: “Хорн”
  • Catalan: “Hoorn”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Hoorn”
  • Chinese: “Hoorn”
  • Chinese: “荷恩”
  • Chinese: “霍伦”
  • Croatian: “Hoorn”
  • Czech: “Hoorn”
  • Danish: “Hoorn”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Hoorn”
  • Dutch: “Hoorn (Noord-Holland)”
  • Dutch: “Hoorn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هورن”
  • Esperanto: “Hoorn”
  • Estonian: “Hoorn”
  • Faroese: “Hoorn”
  • Finnish: “Hoorn”
  • French: “Hoorn”
  • French: “Horn”
  • Galician: “Hoorn”
  • German: “Hoorn”
  • Greek: “Χόορν”
  • Hebrew: “הורן (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “הורן”
  • Hungarian: “Hoorn”
  • Icelandic: “Hoorn”
  • Indonesian: “Hoorn”
  • Irish: “Hoorn”
  • Italian: “Hoorn”
  • Japanese: “ホールン”
  • Javanese: “Hoorn”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hoorn”
  • Komi: “Хорн”
  • Korean: “호른”
  • Kurdish: “Hoorn”
  • Latvian: “Horna”
  • Limburgan: “Hoorn”
  • Lithuanian: “Hornas”
  • Low German: “Hoorn”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hoorn”
  • Macedonian: “Хорн”
  • Malay: “Hoorn”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hoorn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hoorn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoorn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoorn”
  • Norwegian: “Hoorn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hoorn”
  • Persian: “هورن”
  • Polish: “Hoorn”
  • Portuguese: “Hoorn”
  • Romanian: “Hoorn”
  • Russian: “Хорн”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hoorn”
  • Scots: “Hoorn”
  • Serbian: “Хорн (Холандија)”
  • Serbian: “Хорн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hoorn”
  • Silesian: “Hoorn”
  • Slovak: “Hoorn”
  • Slovenian: “Hoorn”
  • Spanish: “Hoorn”
  • Swahili: “Hoorn”
  • Swedish: “Hoorn”
  • Tatar: “Һорн”
  • Thai: “โฮร์น”
  • Turkish: “Hoorn”
  • Ukrainian: “Горн”
  • Venetian: “Hoorn”
  • Vlaams: “Hoorn (Noord-Holland)”
  • Vlaams: “Hoorn”
  • Volapük: “Hoorn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hoorn”
  • Welsh: “Hoorn”
  • Western Frisian: “Hoarn”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍伦”
  • Zeeuws: “Hoorn”
  • Zeeuws: “Oôrn”
  • “Hoorn”

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