Wageningen
Wageningen is a town along the Rhine river within the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. Because of its famous agricultural university, it is more lively than one would expect from a Dutch town with 39,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Patomena, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Carschten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include World Soil Museum and Het Depot.
World Soil Museum
Museum
Photo: Hengl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The World Soil Museum displays physical examples of soil profiles representing major soil types of the world, from the volcanic ash soils from Indonesia to the red, strongly weathered soils from the Amazon region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhenen and Bennekom.
Rhenen
Photo: FredTC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rhenen is a municipality of 20,000 people in Utrecht. 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.
Bennekom
Town
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bennekom is a village and parish in the Netherlands, which is part of the Municipality of Ede in the south-west of the Veluwe district of the Province of Gelderland. Bennekom is situated 3½ km north of Wageningen.
Renkum
Village
Photo: Renkumsemolen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Renkum is a village in the municipality of Renkum. In the early days, the name of the village was written as Redinchem. In the 19th century, Renkum developed itself. Renkum is situated 4½ km east of Wageningen.
Wageningen
Latitude
51.9663° or 51° 57′ 59″ northLongitude
5.6663° or 5° 39′ 59″ eastPopulation
38,500Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
EWSUnited Nations Location Code
NL WGWOpen location code
9F37XM88+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 44679797OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2745088Wikidata 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”
- Esperanto: “Wageningen”
- 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”
- 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”
- Venetian: “Wageningen”
- Vietnamese: “Wageningen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wageningen”
- Welsh: “Wageningen”
- Western Frisian: “Wageningen”
- Zeeuws: “Waegeniengen”
- Zeeuws: “Waegeningen”
- “ma tomo Wakeninen”
- “ma tomo Wakeninken”
- “ma Wakeninen”
- “ma Wakeninken”
- “Wageningen”
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