Volendam
Volendam is a fishing village in North Holland, 20 km north of Amsterdam. Sometimes called "the pearl of the Zuiderzee", this place is a highly popular tourist destination.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hullie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kras Stadion and Sint-Vincentiuskerk (Volendam).
Kras Stadion
Stadium
Photo: Roelzzz, Public domain.
The Kras Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Volendam, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Volendam. The stadium is able to hold 6,984 people and was built in 1975.
Sint-Vincentiuskerk (Volendam)
Church
Photo: Dqfn13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sint-Vincentiuskerk (Volendam) is a church.
Edam Fort
Fort
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
The Fort near Edam is a Dutch fort that is part of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It lies near the city of Edam. The fort protected the Edam lock, which was used to flood the Zeevang polder. The fort was finished between 1908 and 1914.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edam and Katwoude.
Edam
Photo: Microtoerisme, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edam is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. Its main claim to international fame is Edam cheese. Edam is part of the Zaanstreek-Waterland.
Katwoude
Village
Katwoude is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the IJsselmeer, about 2 km north of Monnickendam. Katwoude is situated 3½ km southwest of Volendam.
Volendam
- Categories: village, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Edam-Volendam, Zaanstreek-Waterland, North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.4964° or 52° 29′ 47″ northLongitude
5.0683° or 5° 4′ 6″ eastPopulation
22,200United Nations Location Code
NL VODOpen location code
9F47F3W9+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 8768920073OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2745340Wikidata ID
Q903595
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zeeuws—“Volendam” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Volendam”
- Basque: “Volendam”
- Belarusian: “Валендам”
- Belarusian: “Волендам”
- Bulgarian: “Волендам”
- Catalan: “Volendam”
- Cebuano: “Volendam”
- Chinese: “Volendam”
- Chinese: “福伦丹”
- Chinese: “福倫丹”
- Czech: “Volendam”
- Danish: “Volendam”
- Dutch: “Follendam”
- Dutch: “Volendam”
- Esperanto: “Volendam”
- Estonian: “Volendam”
- Finnish: “Volendam”
- French: “Volendam”
- Galician: “Volendam”
- German: “Volendam”
- Hebrew: “וולנדם”
- Hebrew: “פולנדם”
- Indonesian: “Volendam”
- Irish: “Volendam”
- Italian: “Volendam”
- Japanese: “フォレンダム”
- Korean: “폴렌담”
- Kurdish: “Volendam”
- Limburgan: “Volendam”
- Lithuanian: “Volendamas”
- Low German: “Volendam”
- Low German: “Volledam”
- Luxembourgish: “Volendam”
- Macedonian: “Волендам”
- Macedonian: “Фолендам”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Volendam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volendam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Volendam”
- Norwegian: “Volendam”
- Persian: “ولندام”
- Polish: “Volendam”
- Portuguese: “Volendam”
- Russian: “Волендам”
- Slovenian: “Volendam”
- Spanish: “Volendam”
- Swedish: “Volendam”
- Turkish: “Volendam”
- Ukrainian: “Волендам”
- Venetian: “Volendam”
- Volapük: “Volendam”
- Western Frisian: “Volendam”
- Zeeuws: “Volendam”
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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 “Volendam”. Photo: Gouwenaar, CC0.