Renkum, Gelderland, Netherlands

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🇳🇱 Renkum is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of the Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen. The surrounding of the municipality are mainly forest and river forelands. In the forest one can find tumulus of thousand years old. Findings from these tumulus can be seen in the Historic museum in Arnhem.

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History Renkum is more than a thousand years old. The thousand-year anniversary was celebrated in 1970. In the early days, the name was written as Redinchem. In the 19th century Renkum developed itself. There existed six paper mills, three water-cornmills and one water-oil mill. There were two factories, a treacle factory and a potato starch-flour factory. There was also a beer brewery and a tavern de Bok.

Nowadays there is still paper industry The company is Parenco B.V., acquired by H2 Equity Partners in 2012.

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Population centres • Doorwerth • Heelsum • Heveadorp • Oosterbeek • Renkum (village) • Wolfheze.

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Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands 
Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
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Renkum has a population of over 31,302 people. Renkum also forms part of the wider Arnhem-Nijmegen metropolitan area which has a population of over 736,500 people. Renkum is situated 13 km west of Arnhem.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Renkum has links with:

🇩🇪 Dachau, Germany 🇵🇱 Dębno, Poland 🇧🇪 Tervuren, Belgium
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Antipodal to Renkum is: -174.256,-51.977

Locations Near: Renkum 5.74358,51.9773

🇳🇱 Ede 5.669,52.042 d: 8.8  

🇳🇱 Overbetuwe 5.85,51.917 d: 9.9  

🇳🇱 Arnhem 5.917,51.983 d: 11.9  

🇳🇱 Nijmegen 5.859,51.842 d: 17  

🇳🇱 Maashorst 5.667,51.7 d: 31.3  

🇳🇱 Oss 5.526,51.766 d: 27.8  

🇳🇱 Tiel 5.433,51.883 d: 23.7  

🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 5.967,52.217 d: 30.7  

🇳🇱 Amersfoort 5.384,52.157 d: 31.7  

🇩🇪 Kleve 6.131,51.785 d: 34.1  

Antipodal to: Renkum -174.256,-51.977

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16584.7  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15811.3  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15767.8  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15616.9  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11827.6  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11748  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11735.4  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 11730.3  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11729.8  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 11712.1  

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