Kerkrade
Kerkrade is a town and a municipality in the southeast of Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands. It forms part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration.
Photo: Ruud Habets, Public domain.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 45,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Limburg, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “gemeente Kerkrade”, “Holz-Kerkrade”, “Kerkrade (gemeente)”, “Kerkrade Municipality”, “Roda”, and “كيركراده”
- Neighbors: Aachen, Heerlen, and Landgraaf
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide and GaiaZOO.
Gemeentelijk Sportpark Kaalheide
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herzogenrath and Landgraaf.
Kerkrade
Latitude
50.8734° or 50° 52′ 24″ north
Longitude
6.0488° or 6° 2′ 56″ east
Population
45,400
Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)
Open location code
9F28V2FX+8G
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kerkrade” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kerkrade”
- Albanian: “Kerkrade”
- Arabic: “كركرادة”
- Arabic: “كِركَرادة”
- Armenian: “Կերկրադե”
- Asturian: “Kerkrade”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerkrade”
- Basque: “Kerkrade”
- Bulgarian: “Керкраде”
- Catalan: “Kerkrade”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Kerkrade”
- Chinese: “凯尔克拉德”
- Chinese: “科尔克拉德”
- Czech: “Kerkrade”
- Danish: “Kerkrade”
- Dutch: “Kerkrade”
- Esperanto: “Kerkrade”
- Esperanto: “Kerkrado”
- French: “Kerkrade”
- German: “Kerkrade”
- German: “Kirchrath”
- Greek: “Κέρκραντε”
- Hebrew: “קרקראדה”
- Hungarian: “Kerkrade”
- Indonesian: “Kerkrade”
- Irish: “Kerkrade”
- Italian: “Kerkrade”
- Japanese: “ケルクラーデ”
- Javanese: “Kerkrade”
- Kölsch: “Kirchroa”
- Korean: “케르크라더”
- Kurdish: “Kerkrade”
- Ladin: “Kerkrade”
- Latin: “Roda Ecclesiae”
- Latvian: “Kerkrade”
- Limburgan: “Kirchroa”
- Lithuanian: “Kerkradė”
- Low German: “Karkraode”
- Luxembourgish: “Kerkrade”
- Malay: “Kerkrade”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kerkrade”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerkrade”
- Norwegian: “Kerkrade”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kerkrade”
- Persian: “کرکراد”
- Persian: “کرکراده”
- Polish: “Kerkrade”
- Portuguese: “Kerkrade”
- Romanian: “Kerkrade”
- Russian: “Керкраде”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kerkrade”
- Scots: “Kerkrade”
- Slovak: “Kerkrade”
- Slovenian: “Kerkrade”
- Spanish: “Kerkrade”
- Swedish: “Kerkrade”
- Thai: “แกร์กราเดอ”
- Turkish: “Kerkrade”
- Ukrainian: “Керкраде”
- Urdu: “کیرکرادے”
- Venetian: “Kerkrade”
- Vietnamese: “Kerkrade”
- Volapük: “Kerkrade”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kerkrade”
- Welsh: “Kerkrade”
- Western Frisian: “Kerkrade”
- Zeeuws: “Kerkrade”
- “Kerkrade”
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