North Holland
Zaanstreek-Waterland
Zaanstad

Zaandam

Zaandam is a medium-sized town just north of the Dutch capital . It is a short journey from Amsterdam. Zaandam is part of the municipality of Zaanstad in the .
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  • Type: Town with 76,800 residents
  • Description: city in Zaanstad, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Saardam”
  • Postal codes: 1501-1509

Places of Interest

Highlights include Czar Peter House and Zaandam railway station.

Museum
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The is a historical building in Zaandam, the . It is best known as the place where Tsar Peter I of resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

Railway station
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Zaandam is the main railway station of Zaandam, near , . It is at the junction of the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway and the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway.

Railway station
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Zaandam Kogerveld is a railway station located in Zaandam, . The station opened in 1989 on the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway. The station is 2 km north of , and is in the Kogerveld neighbourhood.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zaanse Schans and Oostzaan Municipality.

Photo: Bo Teo, CC BY 2.0.
The is an open air conservation area and museum, on the bank of the Zaan River, north of Zaandam in the . It displays the traditional architecture of the area and has several functioning windmills and craftsman's workshops, which are open to visitors.

Village
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Oostzaan is a municipality and a town in the Zaanstreek, , in the province of . The municipality had a population of 9,689 in 2021.

Village
is a town in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of , and lies about 11 km northwest of .

Zaandam

Latitude
52.4425° or 52° 26′ 33″ north
Longitude
4.8299° or 4° 49′ 48″ east
Population
76,800
Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL ZAA
Open location code
9F46CRRH+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 296053026
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2744118
Wiki­data ID
Q211260
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Zaandam” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Zaandam”
  • Arabic: “زاندام”
  • Armenian: “Զաանդամ”
  • Armenian: “Զանդամ”
  • Asturian: “Zaandam”
  • Belarusian: “Зандам”
  • Breton: “Zaandam”
  • Catalan: “Zaandam”
  • Cebuano: “Zaandam”
  • Chinese: “Zaandam”
  • Chinese: “贊丹”
  • Chinese: “赞丹”
  • Corsican: “Zaandam”
  • Czech: “Zaandam”
  • Danish: “Zaandam”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Zaandam”
  • Dutch: “Saardam”
  • Dutch: “Zaandam (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Zaandam (plaats)”
  • Dutch: “Zaandam”
  • Esperanto: “Zaandam”
  • French: “Saardam”
  • French: “West-Zaandam”
  • French: “Zaandam”
  • Galician: “Zaandam”
  • Georgian: “ზანდამი”
  • German: “Saardam”
  • German: “Zaandam”
  • Greek: “Ζάανταμ”
  • Hebrew: “זנדם”
  • Hungarian: “Zaandam”
  • Ido: “Zaandam”
  • Indonesian: “Zaandam”
  • Irish: “Zaandam”
  • Italian: “Saardam”
  • Italian: “Zaandam”
  • Japanese: “ザーンダム”
  • Japanese: “ザアンダム”
  • Komi: “Зандам”
  • Korean: “잔담”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Zaandam”
  • Lithuanian: “Zandamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Zanstadas”
  • Low German: “Zaandam”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zaandam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zaandam”
  • Norwegian: “Zaandam”
  • Ossetian: “Заандам”
  • Persian: “زاندام”
  • Polish: “Zaandam”
  • Portuguese: “Zaandam”
  • Romanian: “Zaandam”
  • Russian: “Заандам”
  • Russian: “Зандам”
  • Russian: “Саардам”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Zaandam”
  • Serbian: “Zandam”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zaandam”
  • Slovak: “Zaandam”
  • Slovenian: “Zaandam”
  • Spanish: “Zaandam”
  • Swedish: “Zaandam”
  • Tahitian: “Zaandam”
  • Turkish: “Zaandam”
  • Ukrainian: “Зандам”
  • Urdu: “زان دم”
  • Vietnamese: “Zaandam”
  • Welsh: “Zaandam”
  • Western Frisian: “Saandam”
  • Zeeuws: “Zaendam”
  • “Saardam”
  • “Zaandam”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Zaandam”. Photo: Microtoerisme, CC BY-SA 3.0.