Schoonhoven
Schoonhoven is a city and was a former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Since 2015 it has been a part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard, before it had been an independent municipality.Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: city and former municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Sconhouen”
- Postal codes: 2871 and 2872
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nederlands Zilvermuseum Schoonhoven and Grote of Bartholomeüskerk.
Grote of Bartholomeüskerk
Church
Photo: Gouwenaar, Public domain.
Grote of Bartholomeüskerk is a church.
Oud-Katholieke kerk, Schoonhoven
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oud-Katholieke kerk, Schoonhoven is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Liesveld and Groot-Ammers.
Liesveld
Hamlet
Liesveld is a hamlet in Molenlanden, which is a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland. Liesveld is on the southside of the Lek River, between Groot Ammers and Gelkenes.
Groot-Ammers
Village
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Groot-Ammers is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Molenlanden, and is located about 13 km southeast of Gouda on the southside of the Lek River.
Nieuwpoort
Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
Nieuwpoort is a tiny city in the Netherlands in the municipality of Molenlanden. The place was given city rights in 1283. In 2001, the city of Nieuwpoort had 619 inhabitants.
Schoonhoven
Latitude
51.9464° or 51° 56′ 47″ northLongitude
4.8516° or 4° 51′ 6″ eastPopulation
12,400Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL SHHOpen location code
9F36WVW2+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 44556470OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Schoonhoven” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Schoonhoven”
- Arabic: “سخونهوفن”
- Armenian: “Շխոնհովեն”
- Asturian: “Schoonhoven”
- Basque: “Schoonhoven”
- Catalan: “Schoonhoven”
- Cebuano: “Schoonhoven”
- Chinese: “Schoonhoven”
- Chinese: “斯洪霍芬”
- Czech: “Schoonhoven”
- Danish: “Schoonhoven”
- Dutch: “Schoonhoven”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سخونهوفن”
- French: “Schoonhoven”
- German: “Schoonhoven”
- Hebrew: “שונהובן”
- Indonesian: “Schoonhoven”
- Irish: “Schoonhoven”
- Italian: “Schoonhoven”
- Japanese: “スコーンホーフェン”
- Japanese: “スホーンホーフェン”
- Javanese: “Schoonhoven”
- Limburgan: “Schoonhoven”
- Lithuanian: “Schonhovenas”
- Luxembourgish: “Schoonhoven”
- Macedonian: “Схонховен”
- Malay: “Schoonhoven”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schoonhoven”
- Persian: “اسخونهوفن”
- Polish: “Schoonhoven”
- Portuguese: “Schoonhoven”
- Romanian: “Schoonhoven”
- Russian: “Схонховен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Schoonhoven”
- Slovak: “Schoonhoven”
- Slovenian: “Schoonhoven”
- Spanish: “Schoonhoven”
- Swedish: “Schoonhoven”
- Turkish: “Schoonhoven”
- Ukrainian: “Схонговен”
- Vietnamese: “Schoonhoven”
- Volapük: “Schoonhoven”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schoonhoven”
- Welsh: “Schoonhoven”
- Western Armenian: “Շխոնհովըն”
- Western Frisian: “Schoonhoven”
- Zeeuws: “Schoon’oven”
- Zeeuws: “Schoôn’oven”
- “Schoonhoven”
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