Nieuwegein [ˌniwəˈɣɛi̯n] is a municipality and city in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is bordered on the north by the city of Utrecht, the provincial capital.
Population: 61,489
Latitude: 52° 01' 45.01" N
Longitude: 5° 04' 50.02" E
The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wtewael is by a long way t…
The American School of The Hague (ASH) is an American school in Wassenaar, Netherlands. Children can attend the school for a maximum of 13 years, from Pre-Kindergarten to 12th grade. It is one of the three international focus schools in the area, ot…
Voorhout (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvoːrɦʌut]) is a town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.
Valkenburg Naval Air Base (Dutch: Vliegkamp Valkenburg) (IATA: LID, ICAO: EHVB) is a former air base located just south of Valkenburg, which is part of Katwijk and close to the city of Leiden, that was used by the Royal Netherlands Navy up until 200…
The World Esperanto Association (Esperanto: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA) is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with members in 121 countries (as of 2008) and in official relations with the United Nations and UNESCO. I…
De Uithof is a part of the city of Utrecht, which contains the Utrecht Science Park, the campus area of Utrecht University, the vocational university Hogeschool Utrecht and the academic hospital University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU). It is locate…
Soesterberg (52°0′N5°17′E) is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht.
The Rotte is a river in the Rhine-Maas-delta in the Netherlands.
The Ringvaart (known in full as Ringvaart of the Haarlemmermeer Polder) is a canal in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. The Ringvaart (Dutch meaning "ring canal") is a true circular canal surrounding the Haarlemmermeer polder and forms…
The Pieterskerk is a late-Gothic church in Leiden dedicated to Saint Peter.
Pernis is a neighborhood and submunicipality (since 3 March 2010) of Rotterdam, Netherlands. The district has a population of 4,789 (2011) on a total area size of 1.60 km². Pernis is thus a full submunicipality of Rotterdam, but the former independe…
The Militaire Luchtvaart Museum is located at Kamp van Zeist near the former Soesterberg Airforce base. It is the official museum of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. During 2006 it was decided by the Ministry of Defence to merge three military museu…
The Lek (Dutch pronunciation: [lɛk]) is a river in the western Netherlands of some 60 km in length. It is the continuation of the Nederrijn after the Kromme Rijn branches off at the town of Wijk bij Duurstede. The main westbound waterway is hereafte…
Drakensteyn (sometimes "Drakesteijn" or "Drakestein") is a small castle at 9 Slotlaan in the hamlet of Lage Vuursche, in the municipality of Baarn, Netherlands. It is owned by Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, the country's former Queen who abdic…
Werkendam ( pronunciation ) is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands.
The NS Class 6400 is a type of 4 axle diesel-electric freight locomotive.
The Harmelen train disaster was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands. Harmelen, in the central Netherlands, is the location of a railway junction where a branch to Amsterdam leaves the Rotterdam to Utrecht line.
The Grebbe Line (Dutch: Grebbelinie) was a forward defence line of the Dutch Water Line, based on inundation.