Katwijk
Katwijk is a town and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands consisting of Valkenburg, Katwijk aan den Rijn, Katwijk Noord, Rijnsburg and Katwijk aan Zee, which together house some 65,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 65,900 residents
- Description: municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Katwijk Municipalty”
- Neighbors: Leiden, Noordwijk, Oegstgeest, and Wassenaar
Places of Interest
Highlights include Space Expo and Corpus.
Corpus
Museum
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The Corpus Museum is a human biology interactive museum, located in Oegstgeest, near Leiden, in the Netherlands. Billed as "a journey through the human body", the museum provides both education and entertainment through a combination of permanent and variable collections.
Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee
Lighthouse
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The Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee is a Dutch lighthouse in Katwijk aan Zee, in South Holland, on the North Sea. It is the second oldest lighthouse in the country; only the Brandaris is older.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oegstgeest and Wassenaar.
Oegstgeest
Photo: Effeietsanders, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Oegstgeest is a town in South Holland, bordering the city of Leiden, perhaps best known as the birthplace of Dutch author Jan Wolkers and from the title of his autobiographical novel Return to Oegstgeest.
Wassenaar
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Wassenaar is a town in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. Wassenaar is the richest municipality in the Netherlands, and is attractive as a residence for the wealthy with many grand villas.
Leiden
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leiden is easily one of the most enchanting cities in the Netherlands. It's home to the oldest university in the country, the birthplace of Rembrandt and breeding ground for ground-breaking science and Nobel laureates for centuries.
Katwijk
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Katwijk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Katwijk, Zuid-Holland”
- Afrikaans: “Katwijk”
- Afrikaans: “Katwyk”
- Albanian: “Katwijk”
- Arabic: “كاتفايك”
- Armenian: “Կաթվեյկ”
- Asturian: “Katwijk”
- Balinese: “Katwijk”
- Basque: “Katwijk”
- Belarusian: “Катвейк”
- Belarusian: “Катвэйк”
- Catalan: “Katwijk”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Katwijk”
- Chinese: “卡特韋克”
- Chinese: “卡特韦克”
- Chinese: “猫滩”
- Czech: “Katwijk”
- Danish: “Katwijk”
- Dutch: “gemeente Katwijk”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Katwijk”
- Dutch: “Katwijk (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Katwijk (Zuid-Holland)”
- Dutch: “Katwijk, zh”
- Dutch: “Katwijk”
- Esperanto: “Katwijk”
- Estonian: “Katwijk”
- Finnish: “Katwijk”
- French: “Katwijk”
- German: “Katwijk”
- Greek: “Κάτβαϊκ”
- Hebrew: “קטוויק”
- Hungarian: “Katwijk”
- Indonesian: “Katwijk”
- Irish: “Katwijk”
- Italian: “Katwijk”
- Japanese: “カットワイク”
- Japanese: “カトウェイク”
- Javanese: “Katwijk aan Zee”
- Javanese: “Katwijk”
- Korean: “카트베이크”
- Kurdish: “Katwijk”
- Latin: “Lugdunum Batavorum”
- Latvian: “Katveika”
- Limburgan: “Katwijk”
- Lithuanian: “Katveikas”
- Lombard: “Katwijk”
- Low German: “Katwiek”
- Luxembourgish: “Katwijk”
- Macedonian: “Катвајк”
- Malay: “Katwijk”
- Northern Sami: “Katwijk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katwijk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Katwijk”
- Norwegian: “Katwijk”
- Persian: “کات ویک”
- Persian: “کاتویک”
- Polish: “Katwijk”
- Portuguese: “Katwijk”
- Romanian: “Katwijk aan Zee”
- Romanian: “Katwijk”
- Russian: “Катвейк”
- Saterfriesisch: “Katwijk”
- Scots: “Katwijk”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Katwijk”
- Slovenian: “Katwijk”
- Spanish: “Katwijk”
- Swahili: “Katwijk”
- Swedish: “Katwijk”
- Thai: “กัตไวก์”
- Turkish: “Katwijk”
- Ukrainian: “Катвейк”
- Venetian: “Katwijk”
- Vietnamese: “Katwijk”
- Volapük: “Katwijk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katwijk”
- Welsh: “Katwijk”
- Western Armenian: “Քաթուիճք”
- Western Frisian: “Katwijk”
- Western Frisian: “Katwyk”
- Zeeuws: “Katwiek”
- Zeeuws: “Katwijk”
- “Katwijk”
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