Sneek
Sneek, in Frisian called Snits, is a pleasant city right in the heart of the Frisian Lakes district, in the Northern Netherlands. It's a bustling centre for water sports, boating and ice skating, but also home to monumental architecture and lovely town views.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 32,900 residents
- Description: town in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Snits”
- Postal codes: 8601-8608
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waterpoort and Fries Scheepvaart Museum.
Waterpoort
City gate
Photo: Gouwenaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Waterpoort or Hoogendster Pijp is a water gate, a gate in a defensive wall that connects a city to a waterway. It is situated in Sneek, the Netherlands.
Fries Scheepvaart Museum
Museum
Photo: Condor3d, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fries Scheepvaart Museum is a maritime museum in the Kleinzand area of Sneek, Netherlands. Located in the province of Friesland, it contains a library, film viewing room, and focuses on local seafaring life.
Sneek railway station
Railway station
Sneek is a railway station in Sneek, Netherlands. The station opened on 16 June 1883 and is located on the Leeuwarden–Stavoren railway. Until the line was finished in 1885, this station was the terminus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ysbrechtum and IJlst.
Ysbrechtum
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
Ysbrechtum is a village 1 km from the city of Sneek in Friesland, Netherlands. It had a population of around 690 in January 2017. Ysbrechtum contains the Epema State, an old estate.
IJlst
Village
Photo: Taks, Public domain.
IJlst is a city in Friesland, Netherlands. It is located about 3 km southwest of Sneek. It lies within the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân and had a population of approximately 3,140 in January 2017. IJlst is situated 3½ km southwest of Sneek.
Offingawier
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Offingawier is a neighbourhood of Sneek and former village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 205 in January 2017.
Sneek
Latitude
53.0335° or 53° 2′ 1″ northLongitude
5.6611° or 5° 39′ 40″ eastPopulation
32,900Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL SNKOpen location code
9F572MM6+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 235255139OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “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”
- Hausa: “Birnin Sneek”
- Hebrew: “סנייק”
- Indonesian: “Sneek”
- Irish: “Sneek”
- Irish: “Snits”
- Italian: “Sneek”
- Japanese: “スネーク”
- Javanese: “Sneek”
- Korean: “스네이크”
- Kurdish: “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”
- Vietnamese: “Sneek”
- Volapük: “Sneek”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sneek”
- Welsh: “Sneek”
- Western Frisian: “Snits”
- Zeeuws: “Sneêk”
- Zeeuws: “Snits”
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