Vaals
Vaals is a small city in the South Limburg region, in the Dutch province Limburg. It is located right on both the Belgian and German border, with the much larger German city of Aachen at just a stone's throw away.
Photo: Braggeleer, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Vaalserberg
Summit
The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of 322.4 metres above NAP and is the highest point in mainland Netherlands, but not the Netherlands proper. Photo: Xamos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
Vijlen
Vijlen is a village in South Limburg, the southernmost part of the Dutch province Limburg. Photo: Romaine, CC0.Lemiers
Lemiers is a small village with a long history in South Limburg, the southernmost region of the Netherlands. Photo: Romaine, CC BY-SA 3.0.Epen
Epen is a small town in South Limburg, the southern most region of the Netherlands. Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.Vaals
- Type: Municipality of the Netherlands
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Location: South Limburg, Limburg, Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- Neighbors: Aachen and Kelmis
Latitude 50.7785° or 50° 46' 42.5" north | Longitude 5.9767° or 5° 58' 36.3" east |
Population 9870 | Elevation 202 metres (663 feet) |
GeoNames ID 2745904 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Vaals
- Albanian: Vaals
- Arabic: Vaals
- Arabic: فالس
- Armenian: Վալս
- Asturian: Vaals
- Basque: Vaals
- Catalan: Vaals
- Cebuano: Gemeente Vaals
- Chinese: Vaals
- Chinese: 瓦爾斯
- Czech: Vaals
- Danish: Vaals
- Dutch: Vaals (gemeente)
- Dutch: Vaals
- Esperanto: Vaals
- French: Vaals
- German: Vaals
- Hungarian: Vaals
- Indonesian: Vaals
- Italian: Vaals
- Japanese: ファールス
- Korean: 팔스
- Kölsch: Vols
- Latin: Valis
- Limburgan: Vols
- Lithuanian: Valsas
- Luxembourgish: Vaals
- Malay: Vaals
- Min Nan Chinese: Vaals
- Norwegian: Vaals
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vaals
- Occitan (post 1500): Vaals
- Persian: فالس
- Polish: Vaals
- Portuguese: Vaals
- Romanian: Vaals
- Russian: Валс
- Saterfriesisch: Vaals
- Serbo-Croatian: Vols
- Spanish: Vaals
- Swedish: Vaals
- Venetian: Vaals
- Vietnamese: Vaals
- Volapük: Vaals
- Waray (Philippines): Vaals
- Western Frisian: Faals
Other Places Named Vaals
- VaalsTown, Vaals, Limburg
In the Area
Localities
- HarlesHamlet
- HolsetVillage
- RarenHamlet
- Oud-Lemiers
- MelleschetHamlet
- MamelisHamlet
Landmarks
- Sint LambertuskerkChurch
- MariagrotChurch
- Parochiekerk St. CatharinaChurch
- Sint-MartinuskerkChurch
- Sint-CatharinakapelChurch
- AdlersteinHistoric site
Popular Destinations in South Limburg
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