Marken
Marken is a village in Zaanstreek-Waterland, North Holland, Netherlands. It is known for its characteristic wooden houses and traditional costumes. It's a peninsula in the IJsselmeer lake, but connected to the mainland by a causeway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hnapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marker Museum and The Wave.
Marker Museum
Museum
Photo: Hnapel, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Marker Museum is a local museum in the village of Marken in the Netherlands. The museum focuses on the history of Marken, including its fishing heritage. The museum comprises six houses. The building is a Rijksmonument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monnickendam and Volendam.
Monnickendam
Photo: Arwin Meijer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Monnickendam is a town in the Zaanstreek-Waterland region in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.
Volendam
Volendam is a fishing village in North Holland, 20 km north of Amsterdam. Sometimes called "the pearl of the Zuiderzee", this place is a highly popular tourist destination.
Katwoude
Village
Katwoude is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the IJsselmeer, about 2 km north of Monnickendam. Katwoude is situated 4½ km west of Marken.
Marken
Latitude
52.4579° or 52° 27′ 28″ northLongitude
5.1068° or 5° 6′ 25″ eastPopulation
1,820Open location code
9F47F454+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 392056573OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zeeuws—“Marken” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Marken”
- Breton: “Marken”
- Catalan: “Marken”
- Cebuano: “Marken”
- Chinese: “Marken”
- Danish: “Marken”
- Dutch: “Marken”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماركين”
- Esperanto: “Marken”
- French: “Marken”
- Galician: “Marken”
- German: “Marken”
- Greek: “Μάρκεν”
- Ido: “Marken”
- Indonesian: “Marken”
- Irish: “Marken”
- Italian: “Marken”
- Japanese: “マルケン島”
- Low German: “Marken”
- Luxembourgish: “Marken”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marken”
- Persian: “مارکن”
- Polish: “Marken”
- Portuguese: “Marken”
- Russian: “Маркен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marken”
- Slovenian: “Marken”
- Spanish: “Marken”
- Swedish: “Marken, Nederländerna”
- Swedish: “Marken”
- Turkish: “Marken”
- Ukrainian: “Маркен”
- Western Frisian: “Marken”
- Zeeuws: “Marken”
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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 “Marken”. Photo: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY 3.0.