Wassenaar
Wassenaar is a town in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. Wassenaar is the richest municipality in the Netherlands, and is attractive as a residence for the wealthy with many grand villas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: E v Schoonhoven, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 26,100 residents
- Description: town and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands
- Postal codes: 2241-2245
- Neighbors: Katwijk, Leiden, Leidschendam-Voorburg, and The Hague
Places of Interest
Highlights include Duinrell and Falcon.
Duinrell
Theme park
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Duinrell is an amusement park situated in the town of Wassenaar, Netherlands on the estate of the counts Van Zuylen van Nijevelt. In addition to the main amusement park sporting about 40 different attractions, Duinrell has been critically acclaimed for its water park with swimming pool, which boasts 21 waterslides and a kids' water park.
Falcon
Roller coaster
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Falcon is a steel roller coaster at the amusement park Duinrell, located in Wassenaar, Netherlands. The roller coaster is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter model coaster which was opened to the public on 14 May 2009.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Katwijk and Leiden.
Katwijk
Photo: Erwin Kreijne, CC BY 3.0.
Katwijk is a town and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands consisting of Valkenburg, Katwijk aan den Rijn, Katwijk Noord, Rijnsburg and Katwijk aan Zee, which together house some 65,000 people.
Leiden
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leiden is easily one of the most enchanting cities in the Netherlands. It's home to the oldest university in the country, the birthplace of Rembrandt and breeding ground for ground-breaking science and Nobel laureates for centuries.
Voorschoten
Town
Photo: Heleenmeijer, CC BY 3.0.
Voorschoten is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a smaller town in the Randstad, enclosed by the cities of Leiden, Wassenaar and Leidschendam-Voorburg. Voorschoten is situated 3½ km southeast of Wassenaar.
Wassenaar
Latitude
52.1428° or 52° 8′ 34″ northLongitude
4.4011° or 4° 24′ 4″ eastPopulation
26,100Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)United Nations Location Code
NL WSSOpen location code
9F464CV2+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 869864910OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Wassenaar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wassenaar”
- Albanian: “Wassenaar”
- Arabic: “فاسينار”
- Armenian: “Վասենար”
- Asturian: “Wassenaar”
- Balinese: “Wassenaar”
- Basque: “Wassenaar”
- Belarusian: “Васэнаар”
- Belarusian: “Васэнар”
- Catalan: “Wassenaar”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Wassenaar”
- Cebuano: “Wassenaar”
- Chinese: “瓦瑟納爾”
- Chinese: “瓦瑟纳尔”
- Chinese: “瓦瑟訥爾”
- Chinese: “瓦聖納”
- Czech: “Wassenaar”
- Danish: “Wassenaar”
- Dutch: “gemeente Wassenaar”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Wassenaar”
- Dutch: “Wassenaar (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Wassenaar”
- Esperanto: “Vasenaro”
- Esperanto: “Wassenaar”
- French: “Wassenaar”
- Galician: “Wassenaar”
- Georgian: “ვასენარი”
- German: “Wassenaar”
- Hebrew: “ואסנאר”
- Hungarian: “Wassenaar”
- Indonesian: “Wassenaar”
- Irish: “Wassenaar”
- Italian: “Wassenaar”
- Japanese: “ヴァセナール”
- Japanese: “ヴァッセナー”
- Japanese: “ヴァッセナール”
- Japanese: “ワセナール”
- Japanese: “ワッセナー”
- Japanese: “ワッセナール”
- Japanese: “ワッセナア”
- Javanese: “Wassenaar”
- Korean: “바세나르”
- Kurdish: “Wassenaar”
- Latin: “Wassenaar”
- Limburgan: “Wassenaar”
- Limburgan: “Wassenaer”
- Lithuanian: “Vasenaras”
- Low German: “Wassenaar”
- Low German: “Wassenaer”
- Luxembourgish: “Wassenaar”
- Malay: “Wassenaar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wassenaar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wassenaar”
- Norwegian: “Wassenaar”
- Persian: “واسنار”
- Polish: “Wassenaar”
- Portuguese: “Wassenaar”
- Romanian: “Wassenaar”
- Russian: “Вассенаар”
- Russian: “Вассенар”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wassenaar”
- Silesian: “Wassenaar”
- Slovenian: “Wassenaar”
- Spanish: “Wassenaar”
- Swedish: “Wassenaar”
- Turkish: “Wassenaar”
- Ukrainian: “Вассенаар”
- Urdu: “وسینار”
- Venetian: “Wassenaar”
- Vietnamese: “Wassenaar”
- Vlaams: “Wassenaar”
- Volapük: “Wassenaar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wassenaar”
- Western Armenian: “Ուասենաար”
- Western Frisian: “Wassenaar”
- Zeeuws: “Wassenaer”
- “ma tomo Wasena”
- “ma Wasena”
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