Schiedam

Schiedam is a city and municipality in the province of South-Holland in the Netherlands and is part of the metropolitan area. The city is best known for Jenever, its historical centre and the tallest old windmills in the world.
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  • Type: Town with 77,900 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in the Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 3111-3119 and 3121-3125
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Domino’s and Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel.

Fast food restaurant
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Domino's Pizza, Inc, trading as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960. The corporation is Delaware-domiciled and headquartered at the Domino's Farms office park in Ann Arbor Township near .

Stadium
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The Sparta Stadion, nicknamed Het Kasteel, is a football in , Netherlands. It is the home ground of Sparta Rotterdam. It has a capacity of 11,026.

Railway station
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Schiedam Centrum is a railway station and metro station in Schiedam, just to the west of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on the railway line between The Hague and Rotterdam Centraal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Delfshaven and Vlaardingen.

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is a district of . 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.

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is a large town and municipality in in the . It is located on the north bank of the river at the confluence with the .

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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 .

Schiedam

Latitude
51.9172° or 51° 55′ 2″ north
Longitude
4.4019° or 4° 24′ 7″ east
Population
77,900
Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL SCI
Open location code
9F36WC82+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 760583438
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2747596
Wiki­data ID
Q204709
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Schiedam” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Schiedam”
  • Albanian: “Schiedam”
  • Arabic: “سخيدام”
  • Armenian: “Շխիդամ”
  • Asturian: “Schiedam”
  • Balinese: “Schiedam”
  • Basque: “Schiedam”
  • Belarusian: “Східам”
  • Catalan: “Schiedam”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Schiedam”
  • Cebuano: “Schiedam”
  • Chinese: “斯希丹”
  • Czech: “Schiedam”
  • Danish: “Schiedam”
  • Dutch: “Brandersgat”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Schiedam”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Schiedam”
  • Dutch: “Schiedam (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Schiedam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سخيدام”
  • Esperanto: “Schiedam”
  • Esperanto: “Sĥidamo”
  • Finnish: “Schiedam”
  • French: “Schiedam”
  • Georgian: “სხიდამი”
  • German: “Schiedam”
  • Greek: “Σχιντάμ”
  • Hebrew: “סכידאם”
  • Hindi: “स्ख़ीडाम”
  • Hungarian: “Schiedam”
  • Indonesian: “Schidam”
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  • Irish: “Schiedam”
  • Italian: “Schiedam”
  • Japanese: “シーダム”
  • Japanese: “スキーダム”
  • Japanese: “スヒーダム”
  • Javanese: “Schiedam”
  • Korean: “스히담”
  • Kurdish: “Schiedam”
  • Ladin: “Schiedam”
  • Latvian: “Shīdama”
  • Limburgan: “Schiedam”
  • Lithuanian: “Schidamas”
  • Low German: “Skiedam”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schiedam”
  • Macedonian: “Схидам”
  • Malay: “Schiedam”
  • Marathi: “शिडम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schiedam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schiedam”
  • Norwegian: “Schiedam”
  • Persian: “اسخیدام”
  • Polish: “Schiedam”
  • Portuguese: “Schiedam”
  • Romanian: “Schiedam”
  • Russian: “Схидам”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Schiedam”
  • Scots: “Schiedam”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schiedam”
  • Slovak: “Schiedam”
  • Slovenian: “Schiedam”
  • Spanish: “Schiedam”
  • Swahili: “Schiedam”
  • Swedish: “Schiedam”
  • Thai: “Schiedam”
  • Thai: “สกีดาม”
  • Turkish: “Schiedam”
  • Ukrainian: “Східам”
  • Urdu: “سخیدام”
  • Venetian: “Schiedam”
  • Vietnamese: “Schiedam”
  • Vlaams: “Schiedam”
  • Volapük: “Schiedam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Schiedam”
  • Western Armenian: “Սխիտամ”
  • Western Frisian: “Schiedam”
  • Western Frisian: “Skiedam”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯希丹”
  • Zeeuws: “Schiedam”
  • “Schiedam”

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