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Soest

Soest is a medium sized city in the province of . It's known as a major base for the Dutch army, which uses large parts of forests and heathlands of the surrounding Soesterduinen and Soesterberg as training grounds.
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  • Type: Town with 39,400 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Soest Municipality” and “Soest, Netherlands”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Soestdijk Palace and Enghenbergje.

Photo: Bouke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a palace formerly belonging to the Dutch royal family. It consists of a central block and two wings. Although named after the village of , which is largely in the municipality of Soest, is just north of the border in the municipality of in the province of .

Archaeological site
Photo: Swarte Kees, Public domain.
is an archaeological site.

Railway station
Photo: T Houdijk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soestdijk is a railway station located in , . The station was opened on 27 June 1898 on the single track Den Dolder–Baarn railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baarn Municipality and Soestdijk.

Town
Photo: Atsje, CC0.
Baarn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, near in the province of . is situated 4 km north of Soest.

Neighborhood
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is a neighbourhood of Soest and a hamlet in the municipality of . Both are part of the province of , . The village gives its name to , which from 1937 to 2004 was the residence of Princess and later Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard.

Village
is a village and former free-standing municipality in the province of in the . It is located north of the city centre. is situated 6 km east of Soest.

Soest

Latitude
52.1746° or 52° 10′ 29″ north
Longitude
5.291° or 5° 17′ 28″ east
Population
39,400
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
9F4757FR+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 45568761
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2747033
Wiki­data ID
Q10041
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Soest” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Soest, Nederland”
  • Afrikaans: “Soest”
  • Albanian: “Soest (Holandë)”
  • Albanian: “Soest”
  • Arabic: “سوست”
  • Armenian: “Սուստ”
  • Asturian: “Soest”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sust”
  • Balinese: “Soest (Belanda)”
  • Balinese: “Soest”
  • Basque: “Soest”
  • Belarusian: “Суст”
  • Catalan: “Soest”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Soest”
  • Chinese: “苏斯特”
  • Chinese: “蘇斯特”
  • Czech: “Soest”
  • Danish: “Soest”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Soest”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Soest”
  • Dutch: “Soest (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Soest (Nederland)”
  • Dutch: “Soest”
  • Esperanto: “Soest”
  • French: “Soest”
  • German: “Soest”
  • Hebrew: “סוסט”
  • Hungarian: “Soest”
  • Indonesian: “Soest”
  • Irish: “Soest”
  • Italian: “Soest”
  • Japanese: “ススト”
  • Korean: “수스트”
  • Kurdish: “Soest, Utrecht”
  • Kurdish: “Soest”
  • Limburgan: “Soest”
  • Lithuanian: “Zostas”
  • Low German: “Soest”
  • Luxembourgish: “Soest”
  • Macedonian: “Суст”
  • Malay: “Soest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Soest”
  • Norwegian: “Soest”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Soest”
  • Persian: “سوست”
  • Polish: “Soest”
  • Portuguese: “Soest”
  • Romanian: “Soest”
  • Russian: “Суст”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Soest”
  • Spanish: “Soest”
  • Swedish: “Soest, Nederländerna”
  • Swedish: “Soest”
  • Turkish: “Soest, Hollanda”
  • Turkish: “Soest”
  • Ukrainian: “Суст”
  • Urdu: “سوست، نیدرلینڈز”
  • Venetian: “Soest (Paexi Basi)”
  • Venetian: “Soest”
  • Volapük: “Soest”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Soest, Nederlandes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Soest”
  • Welsh: “Soest”
  • Western Frisian: “Soest”
  • Zeeuws: “Soest”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Soest”. Photo: WeeJeeVee, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.