Lelystad

Lelystad is the capital of the Dutch province of . While overshadowed by the larger and with a much less interesting town centre, Lelystad still has its fair share of tourist attractions, mostly found on the outskirts of the city.
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  • Type: City with 77,000 residents
  • Description: municipality and capital city of Flevoland, Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 8211, 8212, 8218, 8219, 8221-8226, 8231-8233, 8239, and 8241-8245
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lelystad Centrum railway station and Batavia Stad Fashion Outlet.

Railway station
Lelystad Centrum is a railway station in the town of Lelystad, . The station is on the Flevolijn and Hanzelijn and the train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Shopping center
is a factory outlet center located in Lelystad, . It was the first fashion outlet center in the Netherlands. The outlet is named after the ship Batavia from 1628.

Theater building
Photo: Cermivelli, Public domain.
is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lelystad-Haven.

Quarter
Photo: Gouwenaar, CC0.
is a quarter.

Lelystad

Latitude
52.5151° or 52° 30′ 54″ north
Longitude
5.4769° or 5° 28′ 37″ east
Population
77,000
Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)
IATA airport code
LEY
United Nations Location Code
NL LEY
Open location code
9F47GF8G+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243670659
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2751738
Wiki­data ID
Q166065
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Lelystad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Lelystad
  • Albanian: Lelystad
  • Arabic: ليليستاد
  • Aragonese: Lelystad
  • Armenian: Լեյլիստադ
  • Asturian: Lelystad
  • Balinese: Lelystad
  • Basque: Lelystad
  • Belarusian: Лелістад
  • Bengali: লেলিস্ট্যাড
  • Breton: Lelystad
  • Bulgarian: Лелистад
  • Catalan: Lelystad
  • Cebuano: Gemeente Lelystad
  • Chinese: Lelystad
  • Chinese: 莱利斯塔德
  • Chinese: 萊利斯塔德
  • Croatian: Lelystad
  • Czech: Lelystad
  • Danish: Lelystad
  • Dutch: Gemeente Lelystad
  • Dutch: Lelystad
  • Egyptian Arabic: ليليستاد
  • Esperanto: Lelystad
  • Estonian: Lelystad
  • Faroese: Lelystad
  • Finnish: Lelystad
  • French: Lelystad
  • Galician: Lelystad
  • German: Lelystad
  • Greek: Λέλυσταντ
  • Gujarati: લેલિસ્ટેડ
  • Hakka Chinese: Lelystad
  • Hebrew: לייליסטאט
  • Hindi: लेलैसटॉड
  • Hungarian: Lelystad
  • Icelandic: Lelystad
  • Indonesian: Lelystad
  • Irish: Lelystad
  • Italian: Lelystad
  • Japanese: レリスタット
  • Javanese: Lelystad
  • Kannada: ಲೈಲಿಸ್ಟಡ್
  • Korean: 렐리스타트
  • Kurdish: Lelystad
  • Latin: Lelystad
  • Latvian: Leleistade
  • Limburgan: Lelystad
  • Lithuanian: Lelistadas
  • Lithuanian: Lelystadas
  • Low German: Lelystad
  • Luxembourgish: Lelystad
  • Malay: Lelystad
  • Marathi: लेलीस्टॅड
  • Min Nan Chinese: Lelystad
  • Northern Frisian: Lelystad
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Lelystad
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Lelystad
  • Norwegian: Lelystad
  • Occitan (post 1500): Lelystad
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Liliestede
  • Ossetian: Лелистад
  • Persian: لیلی استاد
  • Persian: لیلی‌استاد
  • Picard: Lelystad
  • Polish: Lelystad
  • Portuguese: Lelystad
  • Pushto: لیلي ستاد
  • Quechua: Lelystad
  • Romanian: Lelystad
  • Russian: Лелистад
  • Saterfriesisch: Lelystad
  • Scots: Lelystad
  • Scottish Gaelic: Lelystad
  • Serbian: Lelistad
  • Serbian: Lelystad
  • Serbian: Лелистад
  • Serbo-Croatian: Lelystad
  • Sinhala: ලේලිස්ට්ඩ්
  • Slovak: Lelystad
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  • Somali: Lelystad
  • Spanish: Lelystad
  • Swahili: Lelystad
  • Swedish: Lelystad
  • Tamil: லேலிமாநிலம்
  • Tatar: Лелистад
  • Telugu: లెలిస్టాడ్
  • Thai: Lelystad
  • Thai: เลลีสตัด
  • Turkish: Lelystad
  • Ukrainian: Лелістад
  • Urdu: لیلیستات
  • Venetian: Lelystad
  • Veps: Lelistad
  • Vietnamese: Lelystad
  • Vlaams: Lelystad
  • Volapük: Lelystad
  • Walloon: Lelystad
  • Waray (Philippines): Lelystad
  • Welsh: Lelystad
  • Western Frisian: Lelystêd
  • Wu Chinese: 莱利斯塔德
  • Yue Chinese: 萊利斯塔德
  • Zeeuws: Lelystad
  • Gemeente Lelystad
  • Lelystad

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