Nieuwegein

Nieuwegein is a city in in the , about 5 km south of and just north of the river Lek. Most of Nieuwegein was built as a planned city since the 1970s but it does have its pretty sides, too.
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  • Type: Town with 61,900 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Gemeente Nieuwegein” and “Nieuwegen”
  • Postal codes: 3431-3439
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nieuwegein City and Fort Jutphaas.

Railway station
Photo: Ikopdefiets, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a tram stop of the Utrecht sneltram network, located beside the Nieuwegein Cityplaza shopping mall in Nieuwegein. It is along the SUNIJ line which runs south from the Jaarbeursplein and Centrumzijde stops at Utrecht Centraal railway station.

Fort
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Museum
Photo: AME Brunen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include IJsselstein and Utrecht.

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is a city and municipality of 34,000 people in . It thanks its name to the Hollandse IJssel, which flows right past the city.

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is a central Dutch city with a long history. With 362,000 inhabitants, it’s the fourth largest city in the . is known as a student city with a large population of single young people.

Town
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is a municipality in the , in the province of . is situated 5 km east of Nieuwegein.

Nieuwegein

Latitude
52.0367° or 52° 2′ 12″ north
Longitude
5.0836° or 5° 5′ 1″ east
Population
61,900
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL NWG
Open location code
9F4723PM+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 994008023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2750325
Wiki­data ID
Q10050
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Nieuwegein” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nieuwegein”
  • Albanian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Arabic: “نيواخاين”
  • Armenian: “Նիուեխեյն”
  • Asturian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Balinese: “Nieuwegein”
  • Basque: “Nieuwegein”
  • Catalan: “Nieuwegein”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Nieuwegein”
  • Cebuano: “Nieuwegein”
  • Chinese: “尼沃海恩”
  • Danish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Nieuwegein”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Nieuwegein”
  • Dutch: “Nieuwegein (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Nieuwegein (plaats)”
  • Dutch: “Nieuwegein”
  • Esperanto: “Nieuwegein”
  • Esperanto: “Nivegejno”
  • Faroese: “Nieuwegein”
  • French: “Nieuwegein”
  • German: “Jutphaas”
  • German: “Nieuwegein”
  • Greek: “Νιουχέιν”
  • Hebrew: “ניווחיין”
  • Icelandic: “Nieuwegein”
  • Indonesian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Irish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Italian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Japanese: “ニーウウェーヘイン”
  • Japanese: “ニーウェガイン”
  • Japanese: “ニウェヘイン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nieuwegein”
  • Korean: “니우에헤인”
  • Kurdish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Ladin: “Nieuwegein”
  • Limburgan: “Nieuwegein”
  • Lithuanian: “Niuvegeinas”
  • Low German: “Ni-jegein”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Macedonian: “Ниуегајн”
  • Macedonian: “Ниуехајн”
  • Malay: “Nieuwegein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nieuwegein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nieuwegein”
  • Norwegian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nieuwegein”
  • Persian: “نیووه‌خین”
  • Polish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Portuguese: “Nieuwegein”
  • Romanian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Russian: “Ньивегейн”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nieuwegein”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Silesian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Slovenian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Spanish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Swahili: “Nieuwegein”
  • Swedish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Turkish: “Nieuwegein”
  • Ukrainian: “Нюегейн”
  • Ukrainian: “Нюеґейн”
  • Urdu: “نیووے خائن”
  • Venetian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Vlaams: “Nieuwegein”
  • Volapük: “Nieuwegein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nieuwegein”
  • Welsh: “Nieuwegein”
  • Western Frisian: “Nieuwegein”
  • Zeeuws: “Nieuwegein”
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