Vaals
Vaals is a small city and municipality in the South Limburg region, in the Dutch province Limburg, comprising the very southeasternmost corner of the Netherlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 10,100 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Vaals Municipality”
- Neighbors: Aachen and Kelmis
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaalsbroek Castle and Lemiers Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Epen and Partij-Wittem.
Epen
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Epen is a small town in South Limburg, the southern most region of the Netherlands. It's a picturesque little place that features some of the best landscape views in the country and is dotted with the timber framed houses that are so typical for this area.
Partij-Wittem
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Partij-Wittem is a village in South Limburg, the southernmost part of the Netherlands. The village comprises the two hamlets of Partij and Wittem. As a whole, it is part of the municipality of Gulpen-Wittem.
Simpelveld
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Known mostly for the Miljoenenlijn steam train, which originates here, Simpelveld is a small city in the South Limburg region, in the Dutch province Limburg. Also, in 1930 the so-called "Sarcophagus of Simpelveld" was discovered here.
Vaals
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Vaals” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vaals”
- Albanian: “Vaals”
- Arabic: “فالس”
- Armenian: “Վալս”
- Asturian: “Vaals”
- Basque: “Vaals”
- Catalan: “Vaals”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Vaals”
- Chinese: “Vaals”
- Chinese: “法尔斯”
- Chinese: “瓦爾斯”
- Czech: “Vaals”
- Danish: “Vaals”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Vaals”
- Dutch: “Vaals (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Vaals”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤالس، نيديرلاند”
- Esperanto: “Vaals”
- French: “Vaals”
- German: “Vaals”
- Hungarian: “Vaals”
- Indonesian: “Vaals”
- Irish: “Vaals”
- Italian: “Vaals”
- Japanese: “ファールス”
- Kölsch: “Vols”
- Korean: “팔스”
- Kurdish: “Vaals”
- Latin: “Valis”
- Latin: “Vallis”
- Limburgan: “Vols”
- Lithuanian: “Valsas”
- Low German: “Vaals”
- Luxembourgish: “Vaals”
- Malay: “Vaals”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vaals”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaals”
- Norwegian: “Vaals”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vaals”
- Persian: “فالس”
- Polish: “Vaals”
- Portuguese: “Vaals”
- Romanian: “Vaals”
- Russian: “Валс”
- Saterfriesisch: “Vaals”
- Slovenian: “Vaals”
- Spanish: “Vaals”
- Swedish: “Vaals”
- Turkish: “Vaals”
- Ukrainian: “Валс (громада)”
- Ukrainian: “Валс”
- Venetian: “Vaals”
- Vietnamese: “Vaals”
- Volapük: “Vaals”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vaals”
- Western Frisian: “Faals”
- Zeeuws: “Vaels”
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