Eastern Netherlands
Gelderland
Rivierenland

Tiel

Once a prominent trade town, Tiel is one of those largely unknown historic cities in the with a tale of its own. It doesn't see too many visitors today, but the old centre still holds monumental buildings from former glory days and is famous for its fruits production.
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  • Type: Town with 39,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Tiel Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tiel railway station and Flipje en Streekmuseum.

Railway station
Photo: Orange2000, CC BY 3.0.
Tiel is a railway station located in Tiel, . The station opened on 1 November 1882 and is on the Elst–Dordrecht railway. Train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Arriva.

Museum
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.

City gate
Photo: Wouterhagens, Public domain.
is a city gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wamel and Zoelen.

Village
is a village in the province of . It is part of the municipality, about 3 km east of Tiel. was a separate municipality until 1984, when it merged with and .

Village
Photo: Jan dijkstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of , and lies about 3 km north of Tiel. Castle is located near the village. was a separate municipality until 1978, when it was merged with Buren. is situated 3½ km northwest of Tiel.

Hamlet
Photo: Fred Mobach, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
is a hamlet in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of Tiel, and lies about 3 km south of Tiel. It was first mentioned in 850 as Sinuinum. is situated 3½ km southwest of Tiel.

Tiel

Latitude
51.8874° or 51° 53′ 15″ north
Longitude
5.4373° or 5° 26′ 14″ east
Population
39,500
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
9F37VCPP+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8181237045
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2746330
Wiki­data ID
Q73221
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Tiel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tiel”
  • Albanian: “Tiel”
  • Arabic: “تيل”
  • Armenian: “Թիլ”
  • Asturian: “Tiel”
  • Basque: “Tiel”
  • Catalan: “Tiel”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Tiel”
  • Chinese: “Tiel”
  • Chinese: “蒂尔”
  • Chinese: “蒂爾”
  • Czech: “Tiel”
  • Danish: “Tiel”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Tiel”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Tiel”
  • Dutch: “Tiel (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Tiel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيل”
  • Esperanto: “Tiel”
  • French: “Tiel”
  • German: “Tiel”
  • Hebrew: “טיל”
  • Hungarian: “Tiel”
  • Indonesian: “Tiel”
  • Irish: “Tiel”
  • Italian: “Tiel”
  • Japanese: “ティール”
  • Javanese: “Tiel”
  • Korean: “틸”
  • Kurdish: “Tiel”
  • Limburgan: “Tiel”
  • Lithuanian: “Tilis”
  • Low German: “Tiel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tiel”
  • Malay: “Tiel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tiel”
  • Persian: “تیل”
  • Polish: “Tiel”
  • Portuguese: “Tiel”
  • Romanian: “Tiel”
  • Russian: “Тил”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tiel”
  • Slovenian: “Tiel”
  • Spanish: “Tiel”
  • Swedish: “Tiel”
  • Turkish: “Tiel”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіл”
  • Venetian: “Tiel”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiel”
  • Volapük: “Tiel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tiel”
  • Welsh: “Tiel”
  • Western Frisian: “Tiel”
  • Zeeuws: “Tiel”
  • “Tiel”

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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 “Tiel”. Photo: Kattiel, CC BY-SA 3.0.