Urk
Urk is a town and municipality in the Dutch province of Flevoland. This former island is situated on the edge of the Noordoostpolder and directly connected to the IJsselmeer. Because of this people in Urk still say they are living 'on' Urk instead of 'in' Urk.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,200 residents
- Description: town and municipality in Flevoland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Urk, Flevoland” and “Urk, Netherlands”
- Postal codes: 8321 and 8322
- Neighbors: Dronten, Enkhuizen, Lelystad, and Noordoostpolder
Places of Interest
Highlights include Urk Lighthouse and Raadhuis.
Urk Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Urk Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Urk at the eastern banks of the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands. From 1617 a coal fire was used for the local fishermen as well as for the ships sailing from Amsterdam to the North Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tollebeek.
Tollebeek
Village
Photo: BrianKeetman, Public domain.
Tollebeek is a village in the Dutch province of Flevoland. It is a part of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, and is approximately 90 kilometres north east of Amsterdam. Tollebeek is situated 5 km east of Urk.
Urk
- Categories: municipality of the Netherlands, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Flevoland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.6655° or 52° 39′ 56″ northLongitude
5.5988° or 5° 35′ 56″ eastPopulation
20,200Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL URKOpen location code
9F47MH8X+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 47137733OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Urk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Urk”
- Albanian: “Urk”
- Arabic: “أورك”
- Armenian: “Ուրկ”
- Asturian: “Urk”
- Balinese: “Urk”
- Basque: “Urk”
- Breton: “Urk”
- Catalan: “Urk”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Urk”
- Cebuano: “Urk”
- Chinese: “Urk”
- Chinese: “于尔克”
- Chinese: “于爾克”
- Chinese: “於爾克”
- Danish: “Urk”
- Dutch: “gemeente Urk”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Urk”
- Dutch: “Urk (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Urk (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Urk”
- Esperanto: “Urk”
- Estonian: “Urk”
- Faroese: “Urk”
- French: “Urk”
- German: “Urk”
- Hakka Chinese: “Urk”
- Hebrew: “אורק”
- Hungarian: “Urk”
- Indonesian: “Urk”
- Irish: “Urk”
- Italian: “Urk”
- Japanese: “ユルク”
- Javanese: “Urk”
- Kirghiz: “Үрк”
- Korean: “위르크”
- Kurdish: “Urk”
- Limburgan: “Urk”
- Lithuanian: “Urkas”
- Low German: “Urk”
- Luxembourgish: “Urk”
- Malay: “Urk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Urk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Urk”
- Norwegian: “Urk”
- Ossetian: “Урк”
- Persian: “اورک”
- Polish: “Urk”
- Portuguese: “Urk”
- Romanian: “Urk”
- Russian: “Урк”
- Saterfriesisch: “Urk”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Urk”
- Spanish: “Urk”
- Swedish: “Urk”
- Turkish: “Urk”
- Ukrainian: “Урк”
- Venetian: “Urk”
- Volapük: “Urk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Urk”
- Western Frisian: “Urk”
- Yue Chinese: “于爾克”
- Zeeuws: “Urk”
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