Westerkwartier
Westerkwartier is a region and municipality in the west of the province of Groningen, in the Netherlands. The northern part, around the town of Zuidhorn, consists mainly of a marsh landscape with wierden.- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 19,700 residents
- Description: former municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Leek” and “Leek, Netherlands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Joodse begraafplaats (Leek, Groningen) and Iwema-steenhuis.
Joodse begraafplaats (Leek, Groningen)
Cemetery
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Joodse begraafplaats (Leek, Groningen) is a cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leek and Roden.
Roden
Town
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Roden is a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is located in the municipality of Noordenveld, about 16 km southwest of Groningen.
Tolbert
Village
Tolbert is a town in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is part of the municipality of Westerkwartier and forms a single urban area with Leek.
Westerkwartier
- Location: Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.1667° or 53° 10′ northLongitude
6.3833° or 6° 23′ eastPopulation
19,700Open location code
9F58598M+M8Wikidata ID
Q835096
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Westerkwartier” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Leek”
- Albanian: “Leek”
- Arabic: “ليك”
- Armenian: “Լեյկ”
- Asturian: “Leek”
- Basque: “Leek”
- Breton: “Leek”
- Catalan: “Leek”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Leek”
- Chinese: “Leek”
- Chinese: “莱克”
- Chinese: “雷克”
- Chuvash: “Лек”
- Danish: “Leek”
- Dutch: “de Leek”
- Dutch: “Leek (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Leek (voormalige gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Leek”
- Esperanto: “Leek”
- French: “Leek”
- German: “Leek”
- Hungarian: “Leek”
- Indonesian: “Leek”
- Irish: “Leek, Groningen”
- Irish: “Leek”
- Italian: “Leek”
- Japanese: “レーク”
- Limburgan: “Leek”
- Lithuanian: “Lekas”
- Low German: “Leek”
- Luxembourgish: “Leek”
- Malay: “Leek”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leek”
- Minangkabau: “Leek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leek”
- Norwegian: “Leek”
- Persian: “لیک”
- Polish: “Leek (Holandia)”
- Polish: “Leek”
- Romanian: “Leek”
- Russian: “Лек”
- Saterfriesisch: “Leek”
- Spanish: “Leek”
- Swedish: “Leek, Nederländerna”
- Swedish: “Leek”
- Turkish: “Leek, Hollanda”
- Turkish: “Leek”
- Ukrainian: “Лек”
- Vietnamese: “Leek, Groningen”
- Vietnamese: “Leek”
- Volapük: “Leek”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leek, Nederlandes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leek”
- Welsh: “Leek”
- Western Frisian: “De Like”
- “Leek”
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