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Utrecht Hill Ridge

Zeist

Zeist is a town of 51,385 people in . It is known for the Pyramid of Austerlitz, built by Louis Napoléon Bonaparte.
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  • Type: Town with 66,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Slot Zeist and University Medical Centre Utrecht.

Castle
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Hospital
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The University Medical Center Utrecht is the University hospital of the city of Utrecht, . It is affiliated with the Utrecht University. Since the foundation of the university in 1636 an academic hospital has existed in various forms.

Park
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bunnik and Bilthoven.

Photo: Ben Bender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town of 15,000 people in the southeast of , the Netherlands. Chief interests of are its surrounding nature, consisting mainly of forests, farmlands and the Kromme Rijn; and the fortresses of the Hollandic Water Line: Fort bij Vechten and Fort bij Rhijnauwen.

Town
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is a village in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of . It has a railway station with connections to Utrecht, and . is situated 4½ km north of Zeist.

Town
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is a town in the municipality in the central , in the province of . It is the home of Michelin starred restaurant La Provence. is situated 6 km southeast of Zeist.

Zeist

Latitude
52.0893° or 52° 5′ 21″ north
Longitude
5.2276° or 5° 13′ 40″ east
Population
66,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
9F4736QH+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 45197785
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2743976
Wiki­data ID
Q10056
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Zeist” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zeist”
  • Albanian: “Zeist”
  • Arabic: “زايست”
  • Armenian: “Զեյստ”
  • Asturian: “Zeist”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zeyst”
  • Balinese: “Zeist”
  • Basque: “Zeist”
  • Catalan: “Zeist”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Zeist”
  • Chinese: “宰斯特”
  • Czech: “Zeist”
  • Danish: “Zeist”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Zeist”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Zeist”
  • Dutch: “Zeist (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Zeist”
  • Esperanto: “Zeist”
  • Esperanto: “Zejsto”
  • Finnish: “Zeist”
  • French: “Zeist”
  • German: “Zeist”
  • Greek: “Ζέιστ”
  • Hebrew: “זייסט”
  • Hungarian: “Zeist”
  • Indonesian: “Zeist”
  • Irish: “Zeist”
  • Italian: “Zeist”
  • Japanese: “ザイスト”
  • Japanese: “ゼイスト”
  • Javanese: “Zeist”
  • Korean: “제이스트”
  • Kurdish: “Zeist”
  • Latin: “Seist”
  • Latin: “villa Seist”
  • Limburgan: “Zeist”
  • Lithuanian: “Zeistas”
  • Low German: “Zeist”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zeist”
  • Macedonian: “Зајст”
  • Malay: “Zeist”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zeist”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zeist”
  • Norwegian: “Zeist”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zeist”
  • Persian: “زایست”
  • Polish: “Zeist”
  • Portuguese: “Zeist”
  • Romanian: “Zeist”
  • Russian: “Зейст”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Zeist”
  • Scots: “Zeist”
  • Serbian: “Зајст”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zeist”
  • Silesian: “Zeist”
  • Slovenian: “Zeist”
  • Spanish: “Zeist”
  • Swahili: “Zeist”
  • Swedish: “Zeist kommun”
  • Swedish: “Zeist”
  • Turkish: “Zeist”
  • Ukrainian: “Зейст”
  • Venetian: “Zeist”
  • Vlaams: “Zeist”
  • Volapük: “Zeist”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zeist”
  • Welsh: “Zeist”
  • Western Frisian: “Seist”
  • Western Frisian: “Zeist”
  • Zeeuws: “Zeist”
  • “ma Se”
  • “ma Sesi”
  • “ma tomo Se”
  • “ma tomo Sesi”

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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 “Zeist”. Photo: Figi, CC BY-SA 3.0.