Kinderdijk
Kinderdijk is a village in the Alblasserwaard polder of the Netherlands. It's a popular, yet authentic, tourist destination for its large network of windmills. They received recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 811 residents
- Description: farm village in the Netherlands
- Postal code: 2961
Places of Interest
Highlights include Van Zessen House and Eendenkooi Bakkerswaal.
Wilhelminakerk, Ridderkerk
Church
Photo: Avertje, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wilhelminakerk, Ridderkerk is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ridderkerk and Alblasserdam.
Ridderkerk
Town
Photo: Kasteelbeer, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Ridderkerk is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of 46,671 in 2021 and covers an area of 25.26 km2 of which 1.54 km2 is covered by water.
Alblasserdam
Village
Photo: Geol76, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Alblasserdam is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It covers an area of 10.06 km2, of which 1.28 km2 is water, and has a population of 20,136 as of 2021.
Nieuw-Lekkerland
Village
Nieuw-Lekkerland is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is situated on the southern shores of the Lek River, in the north-west of the Alblasserwaard.
Kinderdijk
- Categories: levee, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Molenlanden, Alblasserwaard-Drechtsteden, South Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.8887° or 51° 53′ 19″ northLongitude
4.6357° or 4° 38′ 9″ eastPopulation
811Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL KIJOpen location code
9F36VJQP+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1198516303OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Kinderdijk” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kinderdijk”
- Armenian: “Կինդերդեյք”
- Asturian: “Kinderdijk”
- Azerbaijani: “Kinderdeyk”
- Azerbaijani: “Kinderdijk”
- Bulgarian: “Киндердейкски вятърни мелници”
- Catalan: “Kinderdijk”
- Catalan: “Xarxa de molins de Kinderdijk-Elshout”
- Cebuano: “Kinderdijk”
- Chinese: “Kinderdijk”
- Chinese: “小孩堤防”
- Chinese: “金德代克”
- Croatian: “Kinderdijk”
- Dutch: “Kinderdijk”
- Esperanto: “Kinderdijk”
- Finnish: “Kinderdijk”
- French: “Kinderdijk”
- French: “Réseau des moulins de Kinderdijk-Elshout”
- Georgian: “კინდერდეიკი”
- German: “Kinderdijk”
- Greek: “Κίντερνταϊκ”
- Hebrew: “טחנות הרוח בקינדרדייק-אלסהאוט”
- Hebrew: “טחנות הרוח בקינדרדייק-אלסהוט”
- Hebrew: “קינדרדייק”
- Hungarian: “Kinderdijk-elshouti malomrendszer”
- Ido: “Kinderdijk”
- Indonesian: “Kinderdijk”
- Irish: “Kinderdijk”
- Italian: “Kinderdijk”
- Japanese: “キンダーダイク”
- Japanese: “キンダーデイク”
- Japanese: “キンデルダイク-エルスハウトの風車群”
- Japanese: “キンデルダイク”
- Japanese: “キンデルダイク＝エルスハウトの風車網”
- Japanese: “キンデルデイク”
- Korean: “킨데르데이크”
- Lithuanian: “Kinderdeikas”
- Macedonian: “Киндердајк”
- Maltese: “Kinderdijk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kinderdijk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vindmøllene i Kinderdijk-Elshout”
- Norwegian: “Kinderdijk”
- Persian: “کیندردیک”
- Polish: “Kinderdijk”
- Portuguese: “Kinderdijk”
- Romanian: “Kinderdijk-Elshout”
- Romanian: “Kinderdijk”
- Russian: “Киндердейк”
- Serbian: “Киндердајк”
- Serbian: “Киндердијк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kinderdijk”
- Slovenian: “Kinderdijk”
- Spanish: “Kinderdijk”
- Swedish: “Kinderdijk”
- Turkish: “Kinderdijk”
- Ukrainian: “Кіндердайк”
- Ukrainian: “Кіндердейк”
- Vietnamese: “Kinderdijk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kinderdijk”
- Yue Chinese: “金德代克”
- Zeeuws: “Kinderdiek”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kinderdijk”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.