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Leiden is easily one of the most enchanting cities in the . 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.

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is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, . It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021.

Museum
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The is the national archaeological of the , located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology.

Museum
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is a Rijksmuseum in the located in the university city of Leiden. As of 2014, the museum, along with , in Amsterdam, and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, together make up the National Museum of World Cultures.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oegstgeest and Katwijk.

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is a town in , 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 .

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is a town and municipality in , the Netherlands consisting of Valkenburg, aan den Rijn, Noord, Rijnsburg and aan Zee, which together house some 65,000 people.

Photo: E v Schoonhoven, CC BY 3.0.
is a town in the province of in the Netherlands. is the richest municipality in the Netherlands, and is attractive as a residence for the wealthy with many grand villas.

Leiden

Latitude
52.1595° or 52° 9′ 34″ north
Longitude
4.4909° or 4° 29′ 27″ east
Population
124,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL LID
Open location code
9F465F5R+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 235865586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2751773
Wiki­data ID
Q43631
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Leiden” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Leiden”
  • Albanian: “Leiden”
  • Albanian: “Lejdeni”
  • Amharic: “ለይድን”
  • Arabic: “لايدن”
  • Arabic: “ليدن”
  • Arabic: “لَيْدَنُ”
  • Armenian: “Լեյդեն”
  • Arpitan: “Lêda”
  • Asturian: “Leiden”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leyden”
  • Balinese: “Leiden”
  • Basque: “Leiden”
  • Belarusian: “Лейдэн”
  • Bengali: “লাইডেন”
  • Breton: “Leiden”
  • Bulgarian: “Лайден”
  • Bulgarian: “Лейден”
  • Catalan: “Leida”
  • Catalan: “Leiden”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Leiden”
  • Cebuano: “Leiden”
  • Chechen: “Лейден”
  • Chinese: “莱顿”
  • Chinese: “萊登”
  • Chinese: “萊頓”
  • Cornish: “Leiden”
  • Corsican: “Leida”
  • Corsican: “Leiden”
  • Croatian: “Leiden”
  • Czech: “Leiden”
  • Czech: “Leyden”
  • Danish: “Leiden”
  • Danish: “Leyden”
  • Dutch: “Leiden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لايدين”
  • Esperanto: “Leiden”
  • Esperanto: “Lejdeno”
  • Estonian: “Leiden”
  • Estonian: “Leithon”
  • Estonian: “Leyden”
  • Faroese: “Leiden”
  • Finnish: “Leiden”
  • French: “Leide”
  • French: “Leiden”
  • French: “Leyde”
  • French: “Leyden”
  • Galician: “Leiden”
  • Galician: “Leyden”
  • Georgian: “ლეიდენი”
  • German: “Leiden”
  • German: “Leyden”
  • Greek: “Λάιντεν”
  • Greek: “Λέιντεν”
  • Gujarati: “લીડેન”
  • Hebrew: “ליידן”
  • Hindi: “लेइडेन”
  • Hungarian: “Leiden”
  • Hungarian: “Lejda”
  • Hungarian: “Leyden”
  • Icelandic: “Leiden”
  • Icelandic: “Leyden”
  • Ido: “Leiden”
  • Indonesian: “Leiden”
  • Indonesian: “Leyden”
  • Irish: “Leiden”
  • Italian: “Leida”
  • Japanese: “ライデン”
  • Japanese: “レイデン”
  • Javanese: “Leiden”
  • Kannada: “ಲೀಡೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Leiden”
  • Korean: “라이덴”
  • Korean: “레이던”
  • Korean: “레이덴”
  • Kurdish: “Leiden”
  • Ladin: “Leiden”
  • Ladin: “Leyden”
  • Latin: “Leida”
  • Latin: “Lugdunum Batavorum”
  • Latin: “Lugdunum” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Leiden”
  • Latvian: “Leidene”
  • Latvian: “Leyden”
  • Limburgan: “Leide”
  • Limburgan: “Leiden”
  • Limburgan: “Leie”
  • Lithuanian: “Leidenas”
  • Low German: “Leiden”
  • Low German: “Leidn”
  • Luxembourgish: “Leiden”
  • Macedonian: “Лајден”
  • Macedonian: “Лејден”
  • Malay: “Leiden”
  • Maltese: “Leiden”
  • Manx: “Leiden”
  • Manx: “Leyden”
  • Manx: “Lugdunum Batavorum”
  • Marathi: “लेडन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leiden”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leyden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leiden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leyden”
  • Norwegian: “Leiden”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lèida”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Leiden”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Leyden”
  • Ossetian: “Лейден”
  • Papiamento: “Leiden”
  • Persian: “لایدن”
  • Persian: “لیدن”
  • Piemontese: “Lèida”
  • Polish: “Leiden”
  • Polish: “Lejda”
  • Portuguese: “Leida”
  • Portuguese: “Leiden”
  • Portuguese: “Leyden”
  • Romanian: “Leiden”
  • Romanian: “Leyden”
  • Russian: “Лейден”
  • Russian: “Ляйден”
  • Rusyn: “Лайден”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Leiden”
  • Scots: “Leiden”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Leiden”
  • Serbian: “Leiden”
  • Serbian: “Leyden”
  • Serbian: “Lugdunum Batavorum”
  • Serbian: “Лајден”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lajden”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Leiden”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Лајден”
  • Silesian: “Leiden”
  • Sinhala: “ලේයිඩන්”
  • Slovak: “Leiden”
  • Slovenian: “Leiden”
  • Spanish: “Leiden”
  • Swahili: “Leiden”
  • Swedish: “Leiden”
  • Swedish: “Leidens kommun”
  • Tajik: “Лейден”
  • Tamil: “லைடன்”
  • Tatar: “Лейден”
  • Telugu: “లైడెన్”
  • Thai: “Leiden”
  • Thai: “ไลเดน”
  • Thai: “ไลเดิน”
  • Turkish: “Leiden”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейден”
  • Urdu: “لائڈن”
  • Urdu: “لائیڈن”
  • Uzbek: “Leiden”
  • Uzbek: “Leyden”
  • Venetian: “Leida”
  • Veps: “Leiden”
  • Vietnamese: “Leiden”
  • Vlaams: “Leydn”
  • Volapük: “Leiden”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leiden”
  • Welsh: “Leiden”
  • Western Armenian: “Լէյտէն”
  • Western Armenian: “Լէյտըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Leiden”
  • Western Frisian: “Leie”
  • Western Frisian: “Leien”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیدن”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱顿”
  • Yiddish: “ליידן”
  • Yue Chinese: “萊頓”
  • Zeeuws: “Leiden”
  • “Leiden”
  • “ma Leje”
  • “ma Leten”
  • “ma tomo Leje”
  • “ma tomo Leten”

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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 “Leiden”. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.