Wijchen
Wijchen is a municipality and a collection of towns in the province of Gelderland, in the eastern part of the Netherlands.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 41,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “gemeente Wijchen”, “Viĥeno”, “Wieche”, “Wijchen”, “Wijchen (gemeente)”, “Wychen”, “Вейхен”, “베이헌”, and “ウィヘン”
- Neighbors: Nijmegen and Oss
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wijchen railway station and Sint-Jodocuskerk.
Wijchen railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ravenstein and Hernen.
Wijchen
- Location: Gelderland, Eastern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
51.8188° or 51° 49′ 8″ north
Longitude
5.6986° or 5° 41′ 55″ east
Population
41,300
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
9F37RM9X+GC
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Wijchen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wijchen”
- Albanian: “Wijchen”
- Arabic: “فايخن”
- Armenian: “Վինխեն”
- Asturian: “Wijchen”
- Basque: “Wijchen”
- Belarusian: “Віхен”
- Bulgarian: “Вихен”
- Catalan: “Wijchen”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Wijchen”
- Cebuano: “Wijchen”
- Chinese: “維伊肯”
- Chinese: “维伊肯”
- Chinese: “韋亨”
- Danish: “Wijchen”
- Dutch: “Wijchen”
- Esperanto: “Wijchen”
- Finnish: “Wijchen”
- French: “Wijchen”
- German: “Wijchen”
- Greek: “Βίχεν”
- Hebrew: “וייכן”
- Hindi: “वीख़न”
- Hungarian: “Wijchen”
- Indonesian: “Wijchen”
- Irish: “Wijchen”
- Italian: “Wijchen”
- Japanese: “ヴィヘン”
- Javanese: “Wijchen”
- Korean: “비헌”
- Kurdish: “Wijchen”
- Ladin: “Wijchen”
- Limburgan: “Wijchen”
- Low German: “Wiechen”
- Luxembourgish: “Wijchen”
- Malay: “Wijchen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wijchen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wijchen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wijchen”
- Persian: “ویخن”
- Polish: “Wijchen”
- Portuguese: “Wijchen”
- Romanian: “Wijchen”
- Russian: “Вихен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wijchen”
- Spanish: “Wijchen”
- Swedish: “Wijchen”
- Turkish: “Wijchen”
- Ukrainian: “Віхен”
- Urdu: “وائیشن”
- Venetian: “Wijchen”
- Vietnamese: “Wijchen”
- Volapük: “Wijchen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wijchen”
- Western Frisian: “Wijchen”
- Zeeuws: “Wiechen”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Leur and Woezik.
Gelderland: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Arnhem and Nijmegen.
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