Meppel
Meppel is a city in the southernmost point of the Dutch province of Drenthe. The city has a regional function for neighbouring Southwest Drenthe and the Kop van Overijssel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 29,000 residents
- Description: city and municipality in the Netherlands
- Postal codes: 7941-7944 and 7948
Places of Interest
Highlights include Meppel railway station and Drukkerijmuseum (Meppel).
Meppel railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dh3201, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meppel is a railway station in Meppel, Netherlands. The station opened on 1 October 1867 and is on the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway and Meppel–Groningen railway. Train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Staphorst and Ruinerwold.
Ruinerwold
Village
Photo: Kiwi91, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ruinerwold is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality of De Wolden, about 6 km northeast of Meppel. Ruinerwold is situated 4½ km northeast of Meppel.
Nijeveen
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nijeveen is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Meppel, and lies about 5 km northwest of Meppel. Nijeveen is situated 5 km northwest of Meppel.
Meppel
- Categories: municipality of the Netherlands, city, and locality
- Location: Drenthe, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.6938° or 52° 41′ 38″ northLongitude
6.1978° or 6° 11′ 52″ eastPopulation
29,000Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL MEPOpen location code
9F48M5VX+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 47214961OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Meppel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Meppel”
- Albanian: “Meppel”
- Arabic: “ميبل”
- Armenian: “Մեպել”
- Asturian: “Meppel”
- Balinese: “Meppel”
- Basque: “Meppel”
- Belarusian: “Мепел”
- Breton: “Meppel”
- Catalan: “Meppel”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Meppel”
- Chinese: “Meppel”
- Chinese: “梅珀尔”
- Chinese: “梅珀爾”
- Croatian: “Meppel”
- Danish: “Meppel”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Meppel”
- Dutch: “Meppel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميبل”
- Esperanto: “Meppel”
- Finnish: “Meppel”
- French: “Meppel”
- German: “Meppel”
- Hebrew: “מפל”
- Hungarian: “Meppel”
- Indonesian: “Meppel”
- Irish: “Meppel”
- Italian: “Meppel”
- Japanese: “メッペル”
- Korean: “메펄”
- Kurdish: “Meppel”
- Limburgan: “Meppel”
- Lithuanian: “Mepelis”
- Low German: “Meppel”
- Low German: “Möppelt”
- Low German: “Möppelte”
- Luxembourgish: “Meppel”
- Malay: “Meppel”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meppel”
- Northern Frisian: “Meppel (Gemeend)”
- Northern Frisian: “Meppel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meppel”
- Norwegian: “Meppel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Meppel”
- Persian: “مپل”
- Polish: “Meppel”
- Portuguese: “Meppel”
- Romanian: “Meppel”
- Russian: “Меппел”
- Russian: “Меппелт”
- Saterfriesisch: “Meppel”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Meppel”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meppel”
- Slovenian: “Meppel”
- Spanish: “Meppel”
- Swedish: “Meppel”
- Turkish: “Meppel”
- Ukrainian: “Меппель”
- Venetian: “Meppel”
- Vietnamese: “Meppel”
- Volapük: “Meppel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meppel”
- Western Frisian: “Meppel”
- Zeeuws: “Meppel”
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