Leiden
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.
- City with 124,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 6 metres (20 feet)
- …is also known as “Leyden”
- Description: city and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands
- Postal codes2311-23182321-23242331-2334
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
Wereldmuseum Leiden
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oegstgeest and Katwijk.
Leiden
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- Location
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Latitude
52.1595° or 52° 9′ 34″ north
Longitude
4.4909° or 4° 29′ 27″ east
UN/LOCODE
NL LID
Open location code
9F465F5R+Q9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “Gemeente Leiden”
- 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: “لیڈن”
- 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”
- “ma Leje”
- “ma Leten”
- “ma tomo Leje”
- “ma tomo Leten”
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