North Brabant
North Brabant is a province in the south of The Netherlands. It's bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Eindhoven and ’s-Hertogenbosch.
Eindhoven
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Eindhoven is a major city in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. With a population of over 230,000 people, it's the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands.
’s-Hertogenbosch
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's-Hertogenbosch, commonly known as Den Bosch, is a city in the south of the Netherlands and the capital of the province of North Brabant. Once a stronghold, vital in the protection of the young Dutch nation, Den Bosch has a charming and well-preserved medieval centre.
Breda
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Breda is a city of 190,000 people in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It has a long history as a military stronghold and army base. Important parts of the Dutch military still reside here.
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Explore places such as Tilburg and Helmond.
Tilburg
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Tilburg is a large city in southern Netherlands. It started to grow during the Industrial Revolution, when wool factories were set up, thus making it the wool city of the Netherlands.
Helmond
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Helmond is a city in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. With a population of 91,500 people, it's the fifth largest city of North Brabant.
Bergen op Zoom
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Bergen op Zoom is a city in the west of the Dutch province of North Brabant in The Netherlands. Situated on the border of neighbouring province Zeeland, the city lies on the hills of the "Brabantse wal", an area heightened over the centuries under influence of the river Schelde and the Sea.
Oss
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Oss is a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Noord-Brabant. It has the ruins of a 14th-century castle. The town of Ravenstein is covered in a separate article.
Roosendaal
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Roosendaal is a town and important railway junction in the Netherlands. It lies on the main line from Amsterdam to Antwerp and Brussels as well as the secondary routes to Vlissingen and Nijmegen.
Grave
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Grave is a city and former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The former municipality had a population of 12,486 in 2021. Grave is a member of the Dutch Association of Fortified Cities.
Boxmeer
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Boxmeer is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek.
Asten
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Asten is a municipality and a town in southern Netherlands. It is home to the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry and also a carillon museum. The spoken language is Peellands, an East Brabantian dialect.
Laarbeek
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Laarbeek is a municipality located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. It was formed in 1997 from the former municipalities Beek en Donk, Aarle-Rixtel and Lieshout.
Someren
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Someren is a municipality and town in the province of North Brabant in the Southern Netherlands. As of January 2019, the municipality had 19,322 inhabitants, with over half of the population residing in the town.
Efteling
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Efteling is a theme park in North Brabant in the Netherlands. It's themed around fairy tales and is the largest theme park in the Benelux and one of the most-visited in Europe.
Deurne
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Deurne is a town in the eastern part of the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. Surrounded by nature reserves such as the Peel, the historic town and municipality have some typical southern Netherlands charm.
Mill en Sint Hubert
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Mill en Sint Hubert is a former municipality in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. Mill en Sint Hubert, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022.
Baarle
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Baarle is a border village that spans two countries: Belgium, and the Netherlands. On Dutch soil, in Baarle and surroundings, are 22 enclaves belonging to Belgium and these Belgian enclaves in turn include 7 Dutch enclaves.
Cuijk
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Cuijk is a former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Cuijk, Boxmeer, Grave, Mill en Sint Hubert, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022.
Nuenen
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Nuenen is a town of about 22,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten just east of Eindhoven in the province North Brabant in The Netherlands.
Geldrop
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Geldrop is a town of 29,000 people in North Brabant in the Netherlands. It's located at easy biking distance from Eindhoven, but is mostly surrounded by heathlands and forest area.
Ravenstein
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Ravenstein is a historical city and municipality in Noord-Brabant, which governed itself as an independent country until annexed by Revolutionary France 1794.
Willemstad
Willemstad is a city in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Moerdijk. Its population as of 2021 was 2,490. Willemstad is a small historical town with well preserved fortifications.
North Brabant
- Type: State with 2,560,000 residents
- Description: province of the Netherlands
- Also known as: “NB”, “NL-NB”, “NL41”, and “Noord-Brabant”
- Neighbors: Antwerp, Gelderland, Limburg, Limburg, South Holland, and Zeeland
- Categories: province of the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude of center
51.6018° or 51° 36′ 6″ northLongitude of center
5.4441° or 5° 26′ 39″ eastPopulation
2,560,000Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Operator
Provincie Noord-BrabantAbbreviation
“nb”OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“North Brabant” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Noord-Brabant”
- Albanian: “Brabanta Veriore”
- Amharic: “ሰሜን ብራባንት”
- Arabic: “برابنت الشمالي”
- Arabic: “شمال برابنت”
- Arabic: “شمال بربنت”
- Aragonese: “Brabant Septentrional”
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Բրաբանդ”
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Բրաբանտ”
- Arpitan: “Brebant-du-Nord”
- Arpitan: “Brebant-Enversenc”
- Arpitan: “Noord-Brabant”
- Asturian: “Brabant Septentrional”
- Asturian: “Brabante Septentrional”
- Asturian: “Noord-Brabant”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimali Brabant”
- Balinese: “Brabant Kalér”
- Basque: “Ipar Brabante”
- Bavarian: “Noadbrabant”
- Belarusian: “Паўночны Брабант”
- Bengali: “উত্তর ব্রাবান্ট”
- Breton: “Brabant an Norzh”
- Breton: “Noord-Brabant”
- Breton: “Norzh-Brabant”
- Bulgarian: “Северен Брабант”
- Catalan: “Brabant del Nord”
- Catalan: “Brabant Septentrional”
- Cebuano: “Provincie Noord-Brabant”
- Chinese: “Pak-Brabant Séng”
- Chinese: “北布拉班”
- Chinese: “北布拉班特”
- Chinese: “北布拉班特省”
- Chinese: “北布拉邦”
- Chinese: “北布拉邦省”
- Chuvash: “Ҫурҫӗр Брабант”
- Chuvash: “Ҫурҫӗрти Брабант”
- Corsican: “Brabante di u Nordu”
- Corsican: “Brabante Settentriunale”
- Croatian: “Sjeverni Brabant”
- Czech: “Severní Brabantsko”
- Danish: “Noord-Brabant”
- Dutch: “Brabant”
- Dutch: “NB”
- Dutch: “NL-NB”
- Dutch: “Noord-Brabant”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شمال برابنت”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نورد-برابانت”
- Esperanto: “Nord-Brabanto”
- Esperanto: “Norda Brabanto”
- Estonian: “Põhja-Brabandi provints”
- Estonian: “Põhja-Brabant”
- Faroese: “Noord-Brabant”
- Finnish: “Pohjois-Brabant”
- French: “Brabant-du-Nord”
- French: “Brabant-Septentrional”
- Galician: “Brabante do Norte”
- Galician: “Noord Brabant”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი ბრაბანტი”
- German: “Noord-Brabant”
- German: “Nord-Brabant”
- German: “Nordbrabant”
- German: “Provinz Noord-Brabant”
- German: “Provinz Nordbrabant”
- Greek: “Βόρεια Βραβάντη”
- Gujarati: “નોર્થ બ્રેબેન્ટ”
- Hausa: “Arewa Brabant”
- Hebrew: “צפון בראבנט”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी ब्रबैंट”
- Hungarian: “Észak-Brabant”
- Icelandic: “Norður-Brabant”
- Indonesian: “Brabant Utara”
- Interlingua: “Brabant del Nord”
- Irish: “Brabant Thuaidh”
- Italian: “Brabante del Nord”
- Italian: “Brabante Settentrionale”
- Japanese: “北ブラバント州”
- Javanese: “Brabant Lor”
- Kannada: “ನಾರ್ತ್ ಬ್ರಬಂಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Түндік Брабант”
- Kirghiz: “Түндүк Брабант”
- Korean: “노르트브라반트”
- Korean: “노르트브라반트주”
- Kurdish: “Brabanta Bakur”
- Ladin: “Brabant dl Nord”
- Latin: “Brabantia Septentrionalis”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļbrabante”
- Limburgan: “Noord-Braobant”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Brabant Norde”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Brabantas”
- Low German: “Noord-Braobant”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Nordbrabant”
- Macedonian: “Северен Брабант”
- Malagasy: “Brabant Avaratra”
- Malay: “Brabant Utara”
- Malay: “Noord-Brabant”
- Manx: “Brabant Hwoaie”
- Marathi: “नूर्द-ब्राबांत”
- Mazanderani: “شمالی برابانت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-Brabant Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Brabant Utara”
- Mongolian: “Умар Брабант”
- Mongolian: “Умард Брабант”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Nuurdbrabant”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Noord-Brabant”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-Brabant”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Noord-Brabant”
- Norwegian: “Noord-Brabant”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brabant del Nòrd”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brabant Septentrional”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brabant Septentrionau”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norðbrabant”
- Oromo: “Brabant Kaaba”
- Ossetian: “Цæгат Брабант”
- Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰ ਬ੍ਰਾਬੰਟ”
- Persian: “برابانت شمالی”
- Polish: “Brabancja Północna”
- Portuguese: “Brabante do Norte”
- Pushto: “شمالي برابانټ”
- Quechua: “Noord-Brabant pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Brabantul de Nord”
- Russian: “Северный Брабант”
- Saterfriesisch: “Noudbrabant”
- Scots: “NB”
- Scots: “North Brabant”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Noord-Brabant”
- Serbian: “Северни Брабант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverni Brabant”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු බ්රබන්ට්”
- Slovak: “Severné Brabantsko”
- Slovenian: “Severni Brabant”
- Somali: “Waqooyiga Brabant”
- Spanish: “Brabante del Norte”
- Spanish: “Brabante Septentrional”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Brabante Septentrional”
- Swahili: “Noord-Brabant”
- Swedish: “Noord-Brabant”
- Swedish: “Nordbrabant”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Шимоли Брабант”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு பிரபான்ட்”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு பிராபர்ன்ட்”
- Tatar: “Төньяк Брабант”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర బ్రాబంట్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดนอร์ทบราแบนต์”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Brabant”
- Ukrainian: “Північний Брабант”
- Urdu: “شمالی برابانٹ”
- Urdu: “شمالی برابنت”
- Uzbek: “Shimoliy Brabant”
- Venetian: “Brabante Setentrionałe”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Brabant”
- Vietnamese: “Noord-Brabant”
- Vlaams: “Nôord-Broabant”
- Volapük: “Nolüda⸗Brabän”
- Volapük: “Noord-Brabant”
- Walloon: “Province do Braibant Bijhrece”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan nga Brabant”
- Welsh: “Noord-Brabant”
- Western Frisian: “Noard-Brabân”
- Western Panjabi: “اتلابرابنٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “北布拉班特省”
- Yue Chinese: “北布拉班”
- Zeeuws: “Noord-Braebant”
- “Brabànt Setentriunàł”
- “Noord-Brabant”
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