Westerkwartier

Westerkwartier is a region and municipality in the west of the province of , in the Netherlands. The northern part, around the town of Zuidhorn, consists mainly of a marsh landscape with wierden.
  • Municipality of the Netherlands with 19,700 residents
  • Description: former municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • Also known as
    “Leek”
    “Leek, Netherlands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Joodse begraafplaats (Leek, Groningen) and Iwema-steenhuis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leek and Roden.
is a town in the province of .

Westerkwartier

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Latitude
53.1667° or 53° 10′ north
Longitude
6.3833° or 6° 23′ east
Open location code
9F58598M+M8
Wiki­data ID

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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: “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”
  • Urdu: “لیک، نیدرلینڈز”
  • Vietnamese: “Leek, Groningen”
  • Vietnamese: “Leek”
  • Volapük: “Leek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leek, Nederlandes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Leek”
  • Welsh: “Leek”
  • Western Frisian: “De Like”

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