Sneek

Sneek, in Frisian called Snits, is a pleasant city right in the heart of the district, in the . It's a bustling centre for water sports, boating and ice skating, but also home to monumental architecture and lovely town views.
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  • Town with about 33,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • …is also known as “Snits”
  • Description: town in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 8601-8608

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waterpoort and Fries Scheepvaart Museum.
Gouwenaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Hoogendster Pijp is a water gate…
Condor3d, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a maritime museum in the Kleinzand area of Sneek, .
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Sneek is a railway station in Sneek, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ysbrechtum and IJlst.
Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
is a 1 km from the city of Sneek in , .
Taks, Public domain.
is a city in , . is situated 3½ km southwest of Sneek.
Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, in the Dutch province of Friesland.

Sneek

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Latitude
53.0335° or 53° 2′ 1″ north
Longitude
5.6611° or 5° 39′ 40″ east
UN/LOCODE
NL SNK
Open location code
9F572MM6+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 235255139
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2747063
Wiki­data ID
Q23070

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Sneek” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sneek”
  • Arabic: “سنيك”
  • Aragonese: “Snits”
  • Armenian: “Սնեկ”
  • Asturian: “Sneek”
  • Basque: “Sneek”
  • Belarusian: “Снэк”
  • Catalan: “Snits”
  • Cebuano: “Sneek”
  • Chinese: “斯內克”
  • Chinese: “斯内克”
  • Czech: “Sneek”
  • Danish: “Sneek”
  • Danish: “Snits”
  • Dutch: “Sneek”
  • Dutch: “Snits”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سنيك”
  • Esperanto: “Sneek”
  • Finnish: “Sneek”
  • Finnish: “Snits”
  • French: “Sneek”
  • French: “Snits”
  • Galician: “Snits”
  • German: “Sneek”
  • German: “Snits”
  • Greek: “Σνέικ”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Sneek”
  • Hebrew: “סנייק”
  • Hebrew: “שנעעק”
  • Hebrew: “שנעק”
  • Indonesian: “Sneek”
  • Irish: “Sneek”
  • Irish: “Snits”
  • Italian: “Sneek”
  • Japanese: “スネーク”
  • Javanese: “Sneek”
  • Korean: “스네이크”
  • Kurdish: “Sneek”
  • Ladin: “Sneek”
  • Limburgan: “Sneek”
  • Limburgan: “Snits”
  • Lithuanian: “Snekas”
  • Low German: “Sneek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sneek”
  • Macedonian: “Снек”
  • Malay: “Sneek”
  • Maltese: “Sneek”
  • Maltese: “Snits”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sneek”
  • Northern Frisian: “Snits”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sneek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Snits”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sneek”
  • Persian: “اسنیک”
  • Polish: “Sneek”
  • Portuguese: “Sneek”
  • Romanian: “Sneek”
  • Russian: “Снек”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Snits”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sneek”
  • Slovak: “Sneek”
  • Slovenian: “Sneek”
  • Spanish: “Sneek”
  • Swedish: “Sneek”
  • Swedish: “Snits”
  • Turkish: “Sneek”
  • Ukrainian: “Снек”
  • Urdu: “سنیک”
  • Vietnamese: “Sneek”
  • Volapük: “Sneek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sneek”
  • Welsh: “Sneek”
  • Western Frisian: “Snits”
  • Zeeuws: “Sneêk”
  • Zeeuws: “Snits”

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