Netherlands
Eastern Netherlands
Gelderland

Nijmegen

Nijmegen lays claims to the title of oldest city in the Netherlands, and has indeed a long history and still lots of interesting heritage to enjoy today.
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  • Type: City with 177,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Gelderland, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Gemeente Nijmegen”, “Municipality of Nijmegen”, “Nijmegen Municipality”, and “Nimeguen”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nijmegen Railway Station and Museum Het Valkhof.

Railway station
Photo: Stefan Flöper, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station of Nijmegen in , . It was opened on 9 August 1865 and is located on the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway, Nijmegen–Venlo railway and the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway.

Museum
Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Valkhof Museum is an archaeology and art museum in Nijmegen, . The museum has existed since 1999, created as a merger between the G. M. Kam museum of archaeology and the Commanderie van St.

Museum
Photo: EvaK, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is the only bicycle museum in the . It is located along the Waal River in the city of Nijmegen. The museum was founded in 1981 from the private collection of G.F.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lent and Ubbergen.

Village
is a village in the province of . It is located in the municipality of Nijmegen, about 2 km north of that city, on the north bank of the Waal river.

Village
Photo: Arjandb, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
is a and former municipality in the eastern , in the province of . On 1 January 2015 it merged into the enlarged municipality of , renamed from 1 January 2016.

Village
Photo: Cultureel Gelderland, CC0.
is a town in the eastern , in the province of . It is located in the Betuwe region, and falls under the municipality of .

Nijmegen

Latitude
51.8475° or 51° 50′ 51″ north
Longitude
5.8638° or 5° 51′ 50″ east
Population
177,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
9F37RVW7+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 867975219
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2750052
Wiki­data ID
Q47887
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Nijmegen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nijmegen”
  • Albanian: “Nimega”
  • Amharic: “Nijmegen”
  • Amharic: “ኔመሕን”
  • Arabic: “نايميخن”
  • Arabic: “نايميخين”
  • Aragonese: “Nijmegen”
  • Aragonese: “Nimega”
  • Armenian: “Նեյմեյխեն”
  • Asturian: “Nijmegen”
  • Asturian: “Nimega”
  • Azerbaijani: “Neymeqen”
  • Balinese: “Nijmegen”
  • Bashkir: “Неймеген”
  • Basque: “Nijmegen”
  • Basque: “Nimega”
  • Belarusian: “Неймеген”
  • Belarusian: “Німвеген”
  • Belarusian: “Нэймэген”
  • Bengali: “নিজমেজেন”
  • Breton: “Nijmegen”
  • Bulgarian: “Наймеген”
  • Bulgarian: “Неймеген”
  • Bulgarian: “Неймехен”
  • Burmese: “နစ်မီဂျန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Nijmegen”
  • Catalan: “Nimega”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Nijmegen”
  • Chinese: “Nijmegen”
  • Chinese: “奈梅亨”
  • Chinese: “尼美根”
  • Croatian: “Nijmegen”
  • Czech: “Nijmegen”
  • Danish: “Nijmegen”
  • Danish: “Nimwegen”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Nijmegen”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Nijmegen”
  • Dutch: “Nijmegen”
  • Dutch: “Nimma”
  • Dutch: “Nimwegen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نايميخن”
  • Esperanto: “Nijmegen”
  • Esperanto: “Nimego”
  • Estonian: “Nijmegen”
  • Finnish: “Nijmegen”
  • French: “Nijmegen”
  • French: “Nimegue”
  • French: “Nimègue”
  • French: “Nimègues”
  • Galician: “Nijmegen”
  • Galician: “Nimega”
  • Georgian: “ნეიმეგენი”
  • German: “Batavodurum”
  • German: “Nijmegen”
  • German: “Nimweege”
  • German: “Nimwèège”
  • German: “Nimwegen”
  • German: “Nymwegen”
  • Greek: “Ναιμέγκεν”
  • Greek: “Ναιμέχεν”
  • Greek: “Ναϊμέχεν”
  • Gujarati: “નિજમેગન”
  • Hebrew: “ניימיכן”
  • Hebrew: “ניימכן”
  • Hindi: “निजमेंगें”
  • Hungarian: “Nijmegen”
  • Icelandic: “Nijmegen”
  • Ido: “Nijmegen”
  • Inari Sami: “Nijmegen”
  • Indonesian: “Nijmegen”
  • Indonesian: “Nimweege”
  • Indonesian: “Nimwèège”
  • Interlingua: “Nimega”
  • Irish: “Nijmegen”
  • Italian: “Nijmegen”
  • Italian: “Nijmwegen”
  • Italian: “Nimega”
  • Japanese: “ナイメーヘン”
  • Japanese: “ナイメヘン”
  • Japanese: “ネイメーヘン”
  • Javanese: “Nijmegen”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಜ್ಮೆಜಿನ್”
  • Korean: “네이메헌”
  • Korean: “네이메헨”
  • Kurdish: “Nijmegen”
  • Latin: “Batavodurum”
  • Latin: “Municipium Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum”
  • Latin: “Noviomagus Batavorum”
  • Latvian: “Neimegena”
  • Latvian: “Nijmegen”
  • Latvian: “Nijmegena”
  • Latvian: “Nijmēgena”
  • Latvian: “Nijmegene”
  • Limburgan: “Nijmege”
  • Limburgan: “Nijmegen”
  • Limburgan: “Nimwaege”
  • Limburgan: “Nimwege”
  • Limburgan: “Numwaege”
  • Lithuanian: “Neimegenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nijmegen”
  • Lithuanian: “Nijmegenas”
  • Low German: “Gemeen Nimwaege”
  • Low German: “Niejmeagn”
  • Low German: “Nijmegen”
  • Low German: “Nimwaege”
  • Low German: “Nimweage”
  • Low German: “Nimweeg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nijmegen”
  • Macedonian: “Најмеген”
  • Malagasy: “Nijmegen”
  • Malay: “Nijmegen”
  • Marathi: “निजमेगेन”
  • Marathi: “नेयमेगेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nijmegen”
  • Moksha: “Нэймэген”
  • Mongolian: “Нэймеген”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nijmegen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nimeguen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nijmegen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nimega”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nimegue”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nimègue”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nimwegen”
  • Norwegian: “Nijmegen”
  • Ossetian: “Неймеген”
  • Papiamento: “Nijmegen”
  • Persian: “نایمخن”
  • Persian: “نیجمگن”
  • Persian: “نیمیخن”
  • Persian: “نی‌میخن”
  • Piemontese: “Nimega”
  • Polish: “Nijmegen”
  • Polish: “Nijmgen”
  • Polish: “Nimwegen”
  • Portuguese: “Nijmegen”
  • Portuguese: “Nimega”
  • Portuguese: “Nimegue”
  • Quechua: “Nijmegen”
  • Romanian: “Nijmegen”
  • Romanian: “Nimega”
  • Russian: “Наймеген”
  • Russian: “Наймейхен”
  • Russian: “Неймеген”
  • Russian: “Ниймеген”
  • Russian: “Нимвеген”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱤᱡᱽᱢᱮᱜᱮᱱ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nijmegen”
  • Scots: “Nijmegen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nijmegen”
  • Serbian: “Nijmegen”
  • Serbian: “Најмеген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Najmegen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nijmegen”
  • Silesian: “Nijmegen”
  • Sinhala: “නිජ්මෙජෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Nijmegen”
  • Slovenian: “Nijmegen”
  • Spanish: “Nijmegen”
  • Spanish: “Nimega”
  • Spanish: “Nimegue”
  • Spanish: “Nimègue”
  • Spanish: “Nimwegen”
  • Swahili: “Nijmegen”
  • Swedish: “Nijmegen”
  • Swedish: “Nijmegen”
  • Tamil: “நிஜமெஜென்”
  • Tatar: “Неймеген”
  • Telugu: “నిజిమెజెన్”
  • Thai: “Nijmegen”
  • Thai: “นิมเวเกน”
  • Thai: “เนเมเกิน”
  • Thai: “ไนเมเกน”
  • Thai: “ไนเมเกิน”
  • Thai: “ไนเมเคิน”
  • Turkish: “Nijmegen”
  • Ukrainian: “Неймеген”
  • Urdu: “نیمیخن”
  • Venetian: “Nimega”
  • Vietnamese: “Nijmegen”
  • Vlaams: “Nymeegn”
  • Vlaams: “Nymegen”
  • Volapük: “Nijmegen”
  • Walloon: “Nîmegue”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nijmegen”
  • Welsh: “Nijmegen”
  • Western Frisian: “Nijmegen”
  • Western Frisian: “Nimwegen”
  • Western Frisian: “Nymwegen”
  • Western Panjabi: “نجمیگان”
  • Wu Chinese: “奈梅亨”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼美根”
  • Zeeuws: “Nijmegen”

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