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Rotterdam

Rotterdam is a city in the province of in the west of the . The city is the second largest in the country with a population of approximately 650,000 inhabitants in the municipality and about 2.2 million inhabitants in the shared metropolitan area of the .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Centrum and Capelle en Noordoost.

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is the name of the central area of Rotterdam, being located between the central station in the north and the New Meuse in the south.

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Capelle aan den IJssel is a city along the Hollandsche IJssel river, that to the east and north is bordered by Rotterdam.

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is a municipality of 25,000 people in , found directly south of Rotterdam, separated from it by the Nieuwe Maas river.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Port of Rotterdam and Hook of Holland.

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The is a district in Rotterdam, making up a large part of the southern banks of the River Meuse. These harbours are all post-war additions to the city, mostly replacing this historical harbours on the northern banks.

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is a small town on the Nieuwe Waterweg ship canal near the North Sea coast in Rijnmond. It is well connected to the nearby regional hub, Rotterdam.

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is a district of Rotterdam on the northern bank of the New Meuse river. Also covered is the Noord district.

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is a district of Rotterdam, located on the southern bank of the New Meuse. This former industrial area has largely been converted to housing.

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is a district of Rotterdam. The former city, the name of which literally means harbour of , was founded in 1389 as a harbour settlement of Delft, which through a canal was supposed to secure Delft's access to the river Meuse.

is a region of Rotterdam comprising of the districts of Charlois and IJsselmonde. In local descriptions, however, 'Zuid' is a term referring to all parts of Rotterdam located south of the Nieuwe Maas river.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Euromast.

Museum
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Municipal is an art museum in Rotterdam in the . The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen.

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is an observation tower in Rotterdam, , designed by Hugh Maaskant constructed between 1958 and 1960. It was specially built for the 1960 Floriade, and is a listed monument since 2010.

Bridge
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The is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge. Construction began in 1986 and was completed in 1996. It crosses the in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schiedam and Schiebroek.

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is a city and municipality in the province of South-Holland in the Netherlands and is part of the Rotterdam metropolitan area. The city is best known for Jenever, its historical centre and the tallest old windmills in the world.

Suburb
is a former village in the province of , . It is now a neighbourhood of Rotterdam, and part of the borough of Hillegersberg-Schiebroek.

Quarter
is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, adjacent to the city center. The neighborhood was created in the late 19th century when the territory of the district belonged to the then municipality .

Rotterdam

Latitude
51.9244° or 51° 55′ 28″ north
Longitude
4.4778° or 4° 28′ 40″ east
Population
572,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
RTM
United Nations Location Code
NL RTM
Open location code
9F36WFFH+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44410812
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2747891
Wiki­data ID
Q34370
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rotterdam” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rotterdam”
  • Albanian: “Roterdami”
  • Albanian: “Rotterdam”
  • Amharic: “ሮተርዳም”
  • Arabic: “رتردام”
  • Arabic: “روتردام”
  • Arabic: “روتيردام”
  • Aragonese: “Rotterdam”
  • Armenian: “Ռոտերդամ”
  • Arpitan: “Rotèrdame”
  • Asturian: “Rotterdam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rotterdam”
  • Balinese: “Rotterdam”
  • Bashkir: “Роттердам”
  • Basque: “Rotterdam”
  • Belarusian: “Ратэрдам”
  • Belarusian: “Ротэрдам”
  • Bengali: “রটার্ডাম”
  • Bengali: “রতারদাম”
  • Bosnian: “Rotterdam”
  • Breton: “Rotterdam”
  • Bulgarian: “Ротердам”
  • Burmese: “ရော့တဒမ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “ရော်တာဒမ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Rotterdam”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Rotterdam”
  • Cebuano: “Rotterdam”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆتەردام”
  • Chavacano: “Rotterdam”
  • Chechen: “Роттердам”
  • Chinese: “Rotterdam”
  • Chinese: “鹿特丹”
  • Chuvash: “Роттердам”
  • Corsican: “Rotterdam”
  • Croatian: “Rotterdam”
  • Czech: “Rotterdam”
  • Danish: “Rotterdam”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Rotterdam”
  • Dutch: “Mokum Reisj”
  • Dutch: “R’dam”
  • Dutch: “Roffa”
  • Dutch: “Rotjeknar”
  • Dutch: “Rotjeknor”
  • Dutch: “Rotterdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روتردام”
  • Erzya: “Роттердам ош”
  • Esperanto: “Roterdamo”
  • Esperanto: “Rotterdam”
  • Estonian: “Rotterdam”
  • Extremaduran: “Rotterdam”
  • Faroese: “Rotterdam”
  • Fijian: “Rotterdam”
  • Finnish: “Rotterdam”
  • French: “R’dam”
  • French: “Roffa”
  • French: “Rotjeknor”
  • French: “Rotterdam”
  • Galician: “Róterdam”
  • Galician: “Róterdan”
  • Galician: “Rotterdam”
  • Georgian: “როტერდამი”
  • German: “R’dam”
  • German: “Rotterdam”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰𐌼”
  • Greek: “Ρότερνταμ”
  • Greek: “Ρόττερνταμ”
  • Gujarati: “રોટરડેમ”
  • Haitian: “Rotterdam”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Rotterdam”
  • Hausa: “Rotterdam”
  • Hebrew: “רוטרדאם”
  • Hebrew: “רוטרדם”
  • Hindi: “राटर्डम बंदरगाह”
  • Hindi: “रॉटरडैम”
  • Hindi: “रॉटर्डम”
  • Hungarian: “Rotterdam”
  • Icelandic: “Rotterdam”
  • Ido: “Rotterdam”
  • Inari Sami: “Rotterdam”
  • Indonesian: “Gemeente Rotterdam”
  • Indonesian: “Rotterdam”
  • Interlingua: “Rotterdam”
  • Interlingue: “Rotterdam”
  • Irish: “Rotterdam”
  • Italian: “Rotterdam”
  • Japanese: “ロッタダム”
  • Japanese: “ロッテルダム”
  • Javanese: “Rotterdam”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಟರ್ಡ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Rotterdam”
  • Kazakh: “Роттердам”
  • Kirghiz: “Роттердам”
  • Komering: “Rotterdam”
  • Korean: “로테르담”
  • Kurdish: “Rotterdam”
  • Ladin: “R’dam”
  • Ladin: “Rotterdam”
  • Latin: “Roterodamum”
  • Latvian: “Roterdama”
  • Latvian: “Rotterdam”
  • Limburgan: “Rotterdam”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rotterdam”
  • Lithuanian: “Roterdamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Rotterdam”
  • Lombard: “Rotterdam”
  • Low German: “Rötterdaam”
  • Low German: “Rotterdam”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rotterdam”
  • Macedonian: “Ротердам”
  • Maithili: “रोटरड्याम”
  • Malagasy: “Rotterdam”
  • Malay: “Rotterdam”
  • Maltese: “Rotterdam”
  • Maori: “Roterama”
  • Marathi: “रॉटरडॅम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rotterdam”
  • Moksha: “Роттэрдам”
  • Mongolian: “Роттердам”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “روطردام”
  • Nauru: “Rotterdam”
  • Northern Sami: “Rotterdam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rotterdam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rotterdam”
  • Norwegian: “Rotterdam”
  • Novial: “Rotterdam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rotterdam”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܪܘܛܪܕܐܡ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hrotterdamm”
  • Ossetian: “Роттердам”
  • Papiamento: “Rotterdam”
  • Persian: “رتردام”
  • Persian: “روتردام”
  • Piemontese: “Rotterdam”
  • Polish: “Rotterdam”
  • Portuguese: “Roterdã”
  • Portuguese: “Roterdam”
  • Portuguese: “Roterdão”
  • Portuguese: “Rotterdam”
  • Portuguese: “Rotterdan”
  • Pushto: “روتردام”
  • Quechua: “Rotterdam”
  • Romanian: “Roterdam”
  • Romanian: “Rotterdam”
  • Russian: “Роттердам”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Rotterdam”
  • Scots: “Rotterdam”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rotterdam”
  • Serbian: “Rotterdam”
  • Serbian: “Ротердам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rotterdam”
  • Sicilian: “Rotterdam”
  • Silesian: “Rotterdam”
  • Sinhala: “රොටර්ඩෑම්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Rotterdam”
  • Slovak: “Rotterdam”
  • Slovenian: “Rotterdam”
  • Somali: “Rotterdam”
  • Spanish: “Róterdam”
  • Spanish: “Rotjeknor”
  • Spanish: “Rotterdam”
  • Spanish: “Rótterdam”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Porfoto”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Porifoto”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Roffa”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Rotterdam”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵔⵓⵜⵉⵔⴷⴰⵎ”
  • Swahili: “Rotterdam”
  • Swedish: “Rotterdam kommun”
  • Swedish: “Rotterdam”
  • Swedish: “Rotterdams kommun”
  • Sylheti: “ꠞꠐꠣꠞꠒꠣꠝ”
  • Tagalog: “Rotterdam”
  • Tajik: “Роттердам”
  • Tamil: “ராட்டர்டாம்”
  • Tamil: “ராட்டர்டேம்”
  • Tamil: “ரொட்டர்டாம்”
  • Tatar: “Роттердам”
  • Telugu: “రోటర్ డ్యామ్”
  • Thai: “Rotterdam”
  • Thai: “รอตเตอร์ดัม”
  • Thai: “ร็อตเตอร์ดัม”
  • Thai: “รอตเทอดัม”
  • Thai: “รอตเทอร์ดัม”
  • Thai: “รอตเทอร์ดาม”
  • Thai: “ร็อตเธอร์ดัม”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Rotterdam”
  • Turkish: “Rotterdam”
  • Turkish: “Rotterdamm”
  • Twi: “Rotterdam”
  • Uighur: “Rottérdam”
  • Uighur: “روتتېردام”
  • Ukrainian: “Роттердам”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rotterdam”
  • Urdu: “راٹرڈیم”
  • Urdu: “روٹرڈم”
  • Uzbek: “Rotterdam”
  • Venetian: “Rotterdam”
  • Veps: “Rotterdam”
  • Vietnamese: “Rotterdam”
  • Vlaams: “Rotterdam”
  • Volapük: “Rotterdam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rotterdam”
  • Welsh: “Rotterdam”
  • Western Frisian: “Rotterdam”
  • Western Panjabi: “راٹرڈیم”
  • Wu Chinese: “鹿特丹”
  • Yiddish: “ראטערדאם”
  • Yue Chinese: “鹿特丹”
  • Zeeuws: “Gemeente Rotterdam”
  • Zeeuws: “Rotterdam”
  • Zulu: “Rotterdam”
  • “Rotterdam”

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