Kampen
Kampen is a Hanzestad at the mouth of the river IJssel, a few kilometres from the IJsselmeer in the far northwest of the Dutch province of Overijssel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roepers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 36,100 residents
- Description: town in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Kampen, Overijssel”
- Postal codes: 8261-8267 and 8278
- Neighbors: Dronten, Noordoostpolder, and Zwolle
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koornmarktspoort and Kampen railway station.
Koornmarktspoort
City gate
The Koornmarktspoort is city gate in Kampen, Overijssel, the Netherlands. It was originally part of the city wall and is the oldest of the Kampen city gates.
Kampen railway station
Railway station
Kampen is a terminus railway station located in Kampen, Netherlands. The station was opened on 10 May 1865 and is located on the Kamperlijntje, which is the Zwolle-Kampen section of the Utrecht–Kampen railway.
Bovenkerk
Church
Photo: Hsf-toshiba, Public domain.
The Bovenkerk is a large, Gothic church and the most striking element on the skyline of Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands. The interior of the church contains an early-Renaissance choir screen, a stone pulpit and a monumental organ.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include IJsselmuiden and Grafhorst.
IJsselmuiden
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IJsselmuiden is a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Kampen, northeast of that city across the river IJssel.
Grafhorst
Village
Grafhorst is a small city about 3 km north of Kampen, in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It received city rights in 1333 from Jan van Diest, the Prince-Bishop of Utrecht. Grafhorst is situated 3½ km northeast of Kampen.
Wilsum
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wilsum is a small city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Kampen, about 4 km southeast of that city. Wilsum is situated 5 km southeast of Kampen.
Kampen
Latitude
52.5559° or 52° 33′ 21″ northLongitude
5.9033° or 5° 54′ 12″ eastPopulation
36,100Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL KAMOpen location code
9F47HW43+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 46922468OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kampen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kampen, Nederland”
- Afrikaans: “Kampen”
- Albanian: “Kampen”
- Arabic: “كامبن”
- Armenian: “Կամպեն”
- Asturian: “Kampen”
- Basque: “Kampen”
- Belarusian: “Кампен”
- Catalan: “Kampen”
- Cebuano: “Kampen”
- Chinese: “Kampen”
- Chinese: “坎彭”
- Czech: “Kampen”
- Danish: “Kampen”
- Dutch: “Kampen (Overijssel)”
- Dutch: “Kampen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كامبن”
- Esperanto: “Kampen”
- Esperanto: “Kampeno”
- French: “Kampen”
- German: “Kampen”
- Greek: “Κάμπεν”
- Hebrew: “קמפן”
- Hungarian: “Kampen”
- Indonesian: “Kampen”
- Irish: “Kampen, Overijssel”
- Irish: “Kampen”
- Italian: “Kampen”
- Japanese: “カンペン”
- Korean: “캄펀”
- Kurdish: “Kampen, Overijssel”
- Kurdish: “Kampen”
- Latvian: “Kampena”
- Limburgan: “Kampen”
- Lithuanian: “Kampenas”
- Low German: “Gemeen Kampen”
- Low German: “Kampen (Oaveriessel)”
- Low German: “Kampen”
- Luxembourgish: “Kampen”
- Malay: “Kampen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kampen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kampen”
- Norwegian: “Kampen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kampen”
- Persian: “کامپن، افریسل”
- Persian: “کامپن”
- Polish: “Kampen”
- Portuguese: “Kampen”
- Romanian: “Kampen”
- Russian: “Кампен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kampen”
- Scots: “Kampen”
- Slovenian: “Kampen”
- Spanish: “Kampen”
- Swedish: “Kampen, Nederländerna”
- Swedish: “Kampen”
- Turkish: “Kampen, Overijssel”
- Turkish: “Kampen”
- Ukrainian: “Кампен”
- Venetian: “Kampen”
- Vietnamese: “Kampen, Overijssel”
- Vietnamese: “Kampen”
- Vlaams: “Kampn”
- Volapük: “Kampen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kampen, Overijssel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kampen”
- Welsh: “Kampen”
- Western Frisian: “Kampen”
- Zeeuws: “Kamp’n”
- Zeeuws: “Kampen”
- “Kampen”
- “ma Kanpen”
- “ma tomo Kanpen”
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