Wageningen

Wageningen is a town along the Rhine river within the province of in the . Because of its famous agricultural university, it is more lively than one would expect from a Dutch town with 39,000 inhabitants.
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  • Type: Town with 38,500 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands
  • Postal codes: 6701-6709
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include World Soil Museum and Casteelse Poort.

Museum
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The displays physical examples of soil profiles representing major soil types of the world, from the volcanic ash soils from to the red, strongly weathered soils from the Amazon region.

Museum
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is a museum.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rhenen and Bennekom.

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is a municipality of 20,000 people in . The city is best known for Ouwehands Dierenpark, which is one of the most popular zoos of the Netherlands, and for the Grebbeberg national memorial.

Town
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is a village and parish in the , which is part of the Municipality of Ede in the south-west of the district of the . is situated 3½ km north of Wageningen.

Village
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is a village in the municipality of . In the early days, the name of the village was written as Redinchem. In the 19th century, developed itself. is situated 4½ km east of Wageningen.

Wageningen

Latitude
51.9663° or 51° 57′ 59″ north
Longitude
5.6663° or 5° 39′ 59″ east
Population
38,500
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
EWS
United Nations Location Code
NL WGW
Open location code
9F37XM88+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44679797
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2745088
Wiki­data ID
Q1305
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Wageningen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wageningen”
  • Albanian: “Wageningen”
  • Arabic: “فاخينينجن”
  • Armenian: “Վախենինգեն”
  • Asturian: “Wageningen”
  • Basque: “Wageningen”
  • Belarusian: “Вагенінген”
  • Bulgarian: “Вагенинген”
  • Catalan: “Wageningen”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Wageningen”
  • Cebuano: “Wageningen”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤاخینینگن”
  • Chinese: “Wageningen”
  • Chinese: “瓦格宁根”
  • Chinese: “瓦罕寧恩”
  • Chinese: “瓦赫宁恩”
  • Chinese: “瓦赫寧恩”
  • Czech: “Wageningen”
  • Danish: “Wageningen”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Wageningen”
  • Dutch: “Wageningen (plaats)”
  • Dutch: “Wageningen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاخينينجن”
  • Esperanto: “Vageningeno”
  • Esperanto: “Vageningo”
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  • Finnish: “Wageningen”
  • French: “Wageningen”
  • French: “Wageningue”
  • Galician: “Wageningen”
  • German: “Wageningen”
  • Greek: “Βάχενινγκεν”
  • Hebrew: “ואחנינגן”
  • Hungarian: “Wageningen”
  • Ido: “Wageningen”
  • Indonesian: “Wageningen”
  • Irish: “Wageningen”
  • Italian: “Wageningen”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーヘニンゲン”
  • Javanese: “Wageningen”
  • Korean: “바헤닝언”
  • Kurdish: “Wageningen”
  • Ladin: “Wageningen”
  • Limburgan: “Wageningen”
  • Lithuanian: “Vageningenas”
  • Low German: “Wageningen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wageningen”
  • Macedonian: “Вагенинген”
  • Malay: “Wageningen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wageningen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wageningen”
  • Norwegian: “Wageningen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wageningen”
  • Papiamento: “Wageningen”
  • Persian: “واخنینگن”
  • Polish: “Wageningen”
  • Portuguese: “Vada”
  • Portuguese: “Wageningen”
  • Romanian: “Wageningen”
  • Russian: “Вагенинген”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wageningen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wageningen”
  • Slovak: “Wageningen”
  • Slovenian: “Wageningen”
  • Spanish: “Wageningen”
  • Swedish: “Wageningen”
  • Turkish: “Wageningen”
  • Ukrainian: “Вагенінген”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваґенінґен”
  • Urdu: “واگنینگن”
  • Venetian: “Wageningen”
  • Vietnamese: “Wageningen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wageningen”
  • Welsh: “Wageningen”
  • Western Frisian: “Wageningen”
  • Zeeuws: “Waegeniengen”
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