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Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region

Rijswijk

Rijswijk is a city in the province in the . It is a small city, which evolved around a tiny city core. The name is derived of 'rijshout', a type of wood which grew in the area and the word 'wijc', which was used for settlement in medieval times.
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  • Type: Town with 51,000 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Ryswick”
  • Postal codes: 2281-2289
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Den Haag Hollands Spoor Railway Station and Forum Hadriani.

Railway station
Photo: Sneeuwvlakte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Den Haag HS, an abbreviation of the original name Den Haag Hollands Spoor, is the oldest train station in , , , located on the Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway.

Archaeological site
Photo: Joris, Public domain.
, in the modern town of , was the northernmost Roman city on the European continent and the second oldest city of the .

Railway station
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Den Haag Moerwijk is a railway station in the Moerwijk district of , , . It opened on 2 June 1996.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Hague and Delft.

Photo: Edwin van Buuringen, CC BY 2.0.
is a city in the province of in the . It is the seat of the Dutch parliament and government, and the residence of King Willem-Alexander.

Photo: Tukka, Public domain.
is a mid-sized city in the west of the . It's a beautiful, unspoiled town with traditional architecture, canals and bikes. It's also home to the world famous blue and white ceramics.

Suburb
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is a district of , , built largely after the Second World War, on the 15th century Eskamppolders. With the addition of the Vinex neighbourhood Wateringse Veld, is the most populous district of the city; as of 1 January 2025, it had 132,809 inhabitants.

Rijswijk

Latitude
52.0446° or 52° 2′ 41″ north
Longitude
4.3188° or 4° 19′ 8″ east
Population
51,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL RYS
Open location code
9F4628V9+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267275296
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2748076
Wiki­data ID
Q506745
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Rijswijk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland”
  • Afrikaans: “Rijswijk”
  • Afrikaans: “Ryswyk”
  • Albanian: “Rijswijk”
  • Arabic: “رايسفايك”
  • Armenian: “Ռեյսվեյկ”
  • Asturian: “Rijswijk”
  • Balinese: “Rijswijk”
  • Basque: “Rijswijk”
  • Belarusian: “Рэйсвэйк”
  • Bulgarian: “Рейсвейк”
  • Catalan: “Rijswijk”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Rijswijk”
  • Cebuano: “Rijswijk”
  • Chinese: “莱斯韦克”
  • Chinese: “賴斯韋克”
  • Chinese: “赖斯韦克”
  • Czech: “Rijswijk”
  • Danish: “Rijswijk”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Rijswijk”
  • Dutch: “Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland)”
  • Dutch: “Rijswijk ZH”
  • Dutch: “Rijswijk”
  • Esperanto: “Rijswijk”
  • Faroese: “Rijswijk”
  • Finnish: “Rijswijk”
  • Finnish: “Ryswick”
  • French: “Rijswijk”
  • French: “Ryswick”
  • French: “Ryswyck”
  • German: “Rijswijk”
  • Greek: “Ρισβάικ”
  • Hebrew: “רייסווייק”
  • Hebrew: “רייסוויק”
  • Hungarian: “Rijswijk”
  • Indonesian: “Rijswijk”
  • Irish: “Rijswijk”
  • Italian: “Rijswijk”
  • Italian: “Ryswick”
  • Japanese: “ライスヴァイク”
  • Japanese: “ライスワイク”
  • Japanese: “レイスウェイク”
  • Javanese: “Rijswijk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Rijswijk”
  • Korean: “레이스베이크”
  • Kurdish: “Rijswijk”
  • Limburgan: “Rijswijk”
  • Lithuanian: “Reisveikas”
  • Low German: “Rieswiek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rijswijk”
  • Macedonian: “Рајсвајк”
  • Malay: “Rijswijk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rijswijk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rijswijk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ryswick”
  • Norwegian: “Rijswijk”
  • Persian: “ریس‌ویک”
  • Polish: “Rijswijk”
  • Portuguese: “Rijswijk”
  • Romanian: “Rijswijk”
  • Russian: “Рейсвейк”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Rijswijk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rijswijk”
  • Silesian: “Rijswijk (Połedńowo Holandyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Rijswijk”
  • Slovak: “Rijswijk”
  • Slovenian: “Rijswijk”
  • Spanish: “Rijswijk”
  • Swedish: “Rijswijk”
  • Turkish: “Rijswijk”
  • Ukrainian: “Рейсвейк”
  • Urdu: “رجسوجک”
  • Venetian: “Rijswijk”
  • Vietnamese: “Rijswijk”
  • Volapük: “Rijswijk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rijswijk”
  • Welsh: “Rijswijk”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռիճսուիճք”
  • Western Frisian: “Rijswijk (Súd-Hollân)”
  • Western Frisian: “Rijswijk”
  • Zeeuws: “Rieswiek (Zuud-‘Olland)”
  • Zeeuws: “Rieswiek”

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