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Purmerend

Purmerend is a city close to , . It's one of the largest towns in the region and many of its 80.000 inhabitants work in the nearby capital.
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  • Type: City with 95,900 residents
  • Description: city in Purmerend, Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 1441-1448

Places of Interest

Highlights include Purmerends Museum and Purmerend Weidevenne railway station.

Museum
Photo: Arch, Public domain.

Railway station
Photo: Sneeuwvlakte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Purmerend Weidevenne is a suburban railway station, in the estate in Purmerend, . The station opened on 9 December 2007 and is on the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway. The official opening of the station was on 8 December 2007.

Railway station
Photo: Sneeuwvlakte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Purmerend is the railway station in the centre of Purmerend, . The station opened on 20 May 1884 as part of the Zaandam–Hoorn railway, extended to in 1885.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Edam and Zuidoostbeemster.

Photo: Microtoerisme, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the province of . Its main claim to international fame is cheese. is part of the .

Village
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is a town in the west of the in the former municipality of , . It is located about 1 km northwest of Purmerend.

Village
Photo: Taks, Public domain.
is a village in the province of , . It is a part of the municipality of , and lies about 4 km south of Purmerend.

Purmerend

Latitude
52.5025° or 52° 30′ 9″ north
Longitude
4.9615° or 4° 57′ 41″ east
Population
95,900
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL PUM
Open location code
9F46GX26+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 296050393
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2748413
Wiki­data ID
Q9954
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Purmerend” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Purmerend”
  • Arabic: “بورمرند”
  • Arabic: “بورميراند”
  • Aragonese: “Purmerend”
  • Armenian: “Պուրմերենդ”
  • Asturian: “Purmerend”
  • Balinese: “Purmerend”
  • Basque: “Purmerend”
  • Breton: “Purmerend”
  • Bulgarian: “Пюрмеренд”
  • Catalan: “Purmerend”
  • Cebuano: “Purmerend”
  • Chinese: “Purmerend”
  • Chinese: “皮尔默伦德”
  • Chinese: “皮爾默倫德”
  • Czech: “Purmerend”
  • Danish: “Purmerend”
  • Dutch: “Het Stadje”
  • Dutch: “Purmerend (plaats)”
  • Dutch: “Purmerend”
  • Dutch: “Purrie”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورميراند”
  • Esperanto: “Purmerend”
  • Finnish: “Purmerend”
  • French: “Purmerend”
  • Georgian: “პიურმერენდი”
  • German: “Purmerend”
  • Hebrew: “פורמרנד”
  • Hungarian: “Purmerend”
  • Indonesian: “Purmerend”
  • Irish: “Purmerend”
  • Italian: “Purmerend”
  • Japanese: “ピュルメレント”
  • Japanese: “プルメレント”
  • Javanese: “Purmerend”
  • Korean: “퓌르메런트”
  • Kurdish: “Purmerend”
  • Latvian: “Purmerenda”
  • Limburgan: “Purmerend”
  • Lithuanian: “Piurmerendas”
  • Low German: “Purmerend”
  • Luxembourgish: “Purmerend”
  • Malay: “Purmerend”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Purmerend”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Purmerend”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Purmerend”
  • Norwegian: “Purmerend”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Purmerend”
  • Persian: “پورمرند”
  • Polish: “Purmerend”
  • Portuguese: “Purmerend”
  • Romanian: “Purmerend”
  • Russian: “Пурмеренд”
  • Russian: “Пюрмеренд”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Purmerend”
  • Scots: “Purmerend”
  • Serbian: “Пурмеренд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Purmerend”
  • Slovak: “Purmerend”
  • Slovenian: “Purmerend”
  • Spanish: “Purmerend”
  • Swahili: “Purmerend”
  • Swedish: “Purmerend”
  • Tatar: “Пүрмеренд”
  • Thai: “ปืร์เมอเร็นด์”
  • Thai: “ปืร์เมอแร็นด์”
  • Turkish: “Purmerend”
  • Ukrainian: “Пурмеренд”
  • Ukrainian: “Пюрмеренд”
  • Venetian: “Purmerend”
  • Vietnamese: “Purmerend”
  • Vlaams: “Purmerend”
  • Volapük: “Purmerend”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purmerend”
  • Western Frisian: “Purmerein”
  • Zeeuws: “Purmerend”
  • “Purmerend”

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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 “Purmerend”. Photo: Arch, Public domain.