Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden is the capital of the Dutch province Friesland in the north of the country. Leeuwarden and Friesland as a whole are often overlooked by visitors.
- City with 92,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LWR
- …is also known as “Lieuwarden”
- Description: capital city of Friesland, the Netherlands
- Postal codes8911-89198921-89278931-89398941
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oldehove and Cambuur Stadion.
Cambuur Stadion
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marsum and Snakkerburen.
Marsum
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Snakkerburen
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Lekkum
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Leeuwarden
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Latitude
53.2006° or 53° 12′ 2″ north
Longitude
5.7919° or 5° 47′ 31″ east
UN/LOCODE
NL LWR
Open location code
9F576Q2R+6P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Leeuwarden” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Leeuwarden”
- Albanian: “Leeuwarden”
- Amharic: “ሊውወርደን”
- Arabic: “ليوواردن”
- Aragonese: “Ljouwert”
- Armenian: “Լեուվարդեն”
- Asturian: “Leeuwarden”
- Azerbaijani: “Leuvarden”
- Azerbaijani: “Leyvarden”
- Balinese: “Leeuwarden”
- Basque: “Leeuwarden”
- Basque: “Ljouwert”
- Belarusian: “Леувардэн”
- Belarusian: “Леўвардэн”
- Belarusian: “Леэўвардэн”
- Bengali: “লিউওয়ার্ডেন”
- Bengali: “লিবার্ডেন”
- Breton: “Leeuwarden”
- Breton: “Ljouwert”
- Bulgarian: “Леуварден”
- Catalan: “Leeuwarden”
- Catalan: “Ljouwert”
- Cebuano: “Leeuwarden”
- Chinese: “利瓦頓”
- Chinese: “吕伐登”
- Croatian: “Leeuwarden”
- Croatian: “Leewadden”
- Croatian: “Liwwadden”
- Croatian: “Ljouwert”
- Croatian: “Luwt”
- Czech: “Leeuwarden”
- Danish: “Leeuwarden”
- Danish: “Ljouwert”
- Dutch: “Leeuwarden”
- Dutch: “Ljouwert”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليوڤاردين”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليوواردن”
- Emilian: “Leeuwarden”
- Esperanto: “Leeuwarden”
- Esperanto: “Ljouwert”
- Estonian: “Leeuwarden”
- Estonian: “Ljouwert”
- Faroese: “Leeuwarden”
- Finnish: “Leeuwarden”
- Finnish: “Ljouwert”
- French: “Leeuwarden”
- French: “Leuvarde”
- Galician: “Leeuwarden”
- Galician: “Ljouwert”
- Georgian: “ლეუვარდენი”
- German: “Leeuwarden”
- Greek: “Λέουαρντεν”
- Greek: “Λέουβαρντεν”
- Gujarati: “લીઉવાર્ડન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Leeuwarden”
- Hausa: “Leeuwarden”
- Hebrew: “לייוורדן”
- Hindi: “लीवार्डन”
- Hindi: “लेवार्डन”
- Hungarian: “Leeuwarden”
- Hungarian: “Ljouwert”
- Icelandic: “Leeuwarden”
- Ido: “Leeuwarden”
- Indonesian: “Leeuwarden”
- Irish: “Leeuwarden”
- Irish: “Ljouwert”
- Italian: “Leeuwarden”
- Japanese: “レーワルデン”
- Javanese: “Leeuwarden”
- Kannada: “ಲೀಯುವರ್ಡೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Леуварден”
- Kirghiz: “Леуварден”
- Korean: “레이와르던”
- Korean: “레이와르덴”
- Korean: “레이우아르던”
- Korean: “레이우아르덴”
- Kurdish: “Leeuwarden”
- Ladin: “Leeuwarden”
- Latin: “Leovardia”
- Latin: “Lewardum”
- Latvian: “Leeuwarden”
- Latvian: “Leuvardena”
- Latvian: “Ljouwert”
- Limburgan: “Leeuwarde”
- Limburgan: “Leëuwarde”
- Limburgan: “Leeuwarden”
- Limburgan: “Leewarden”
- Limburgan: “Lieuwarde”
- Limburgan: “Liewarde”
- Lithuanian: “Leuvardenas”
- Livvi: “Ljouwert”
- Low German: “Leeuwarden”
- Low German: “Liwwadden”
- Low German: “Ljouwert”
- Luxembourgish: “Leeuwarden”
- Macedonian: “Леуварден”
- Macedonian: “Љоуверт”
- Malay: “Leeuwarden”
- Maltese: “Leeuwarden”
- Manx: “Leeuwarden”
- Manx: “Ljouwert”
- Marathi: “लीयुवार्डेन”
- Marathi: “लीवार्दन”
- Mazanderani: “لیوورت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leeuwarden”
- Minangkabau: “Leeuwarden”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ليوردن”
- Northern Frisian: “Leeuwaarden”
- Northern Frisian: “Leeuwarden”
- Northern Frisian: “Ljouwert”
- Northern Sami: “Ljouwert”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leeuwarden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ljouwert”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leeuwarden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ljouwert”
- Norwegian: “Leeuwarden”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Leeuwarden”
- Oromo: “Leeuwarden”
- Ossetian: “Лееварден”
- Ossetian: “Лееуварден”
- Ossetian: “Леуварден”
- Ossetian: “Льоут”
- Panjabi: “ਲੀਵਾਰਡੇਨ”
- Papiamento: “Leeuwarden”
- Persian: “لیوواردن”
- Polish: “Leeuwarden”
- Portuguese: “Leeuwarden”
- Portuguese: “Leuvarda”
- Pushto: “لیوواردن”
- Quechua: “Leeuwarden”
- Romanian: “Leeuwarden”
- Romanian: “Ljouwert”
- Russian: “Лееварден”
- Russian: “Лееуварден”
- Russian: “Леуварден”
- Russian: “Льоут”
- Sardinian: “Leeuwarden”
- Saterfriesisch: “Ljouwert”
- Scots: “Leeuwarden”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Leeuwarden”
- Serbian: “Leeuwarden”
- Serbian: “Леварден”
- Serbian: “Леуварден”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leeuwarden”
- Silesian: “Leeuwarden”
- Sinhala: “ලීවුවෝර්ඩ්න්”
- Slovak: “Leeuwarden”
- Slovenian: “Leeuwarden”
- Somali: “Leeuwarden”
- Spanish: “Leeuwarden”
- Spanish: “Ljouwert”
- Swahili: “Leeuwarden”
- Swedish: “Leeuwarden”
- Swedish: “Ljouwert”
- Tajik: “Леуварден”
- Tamil: “லியூவார்டன்”
- Tatar: “Леуварден”
- Telugu: “లీయువార్డెన్”
- Thai: “Leeuwarden”
- Thai: “เลวาร์เดิน”
- Turkish: “Leeuwarden”
- Ukrainian: “Леварден”
- Ukrainian: “Лейварден”
- Ukrainian: “Леуварден”
- Ukrainian: “Льовет”
- Urdu: “لیوردن”
- Urdu: “لیوواردن”
- Urdu: “لییوواردین”
- Uzbek: “Leuwarden”
- Venetian: “Leeuwarden”
- Vietnamese: “Leeuwarden”
- Vlaams: “Leeuwarden”
- Volapük: “Leeuwarden”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leeuwarden”
- Welsh: “Leeuwarden”
- Welsh: “Ljouwert”
- Western Frisian: “Leeuwarden”
- Western Frisian: “Ljouwert”
- Wu Chinese: “吕伐登”
- Yue Chinese: “呂戈登”
- Yue Chinese: “呂華登”
- Zeeuws: “Leeuwarden”
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