Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands

Geography | Sport : Cycling | Sport clubs

🇳🇱 Veendam is a town and municipality in the province of Groningen in the north-east of the Netherlands. Veendam was established in 1648 as a peat colony by Adriaan Geerts Wildervanck.

A Holland America Line cruise ship, the MS Veendam, is named after the city.

The municipality includes Westerdiepsterdallen, the smallest town in the Netherlands.

Geography The population centres in the municipality are: • Bareveld • Borgercompagnie • Kibbelgaarn • Korte Akkers • Numero Dertien • Ommelanderwijk • Tripscompagnie • Veendam • Wildervank • Wildervanksterdallen • Zuidwending.

Sport: Cycling Veendam was the start place of stage 4b at the 2012 Energiewacht Tour and the finish place of stage 2 at the 2013 Energiewacht Tour.

Sport clubs • SC Veendam, former soccer club • Flash Veendam, volleyball club • NNZC Veendam, gliding club.

Verlengde Visserstraat, Groningen, Netherlands 
Verlengde Visserstraat, Groningen, Netherlands
Image: Photo by Nirmal Suresh on Unsplash

Veendam has a population of over 27,752 people. Veendam also forms part of the wider Groningen Province which has a population of over 586,309 people. Veendam is situated near Groningen.

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Veendam has links with:

🇵🇱 Gniezno, Poland 🇨🇦 Kelowna, Canada
Text Atribution: Wikipedia Text under CC-BY-SA license

Antipodal to Veendam is: -173.117,-53.1

Locations Near: Veendam 6.88333,53.1

🇳🇱 Midden-Groningen 6.8,53.183 d: 10.8  

🇳🇱 Emmen 6.896,52.782 d: 35.3  

🇳🇱 Assen 6.57,52.998 d: 23.8  

🇳🇱 Groningen 6.574,53.217 d: 24.4  

🇳🇱 Hoogeveen 6.483,52.733 d: 48.8  

🇩🇪 Meppen 7.283,52.683 d: 53.5  

🇩🇪 Aurich 7.483,53.467 d: 57  

🇩🇪 Nordhorn 7.067,52.417 d: 77  

🇩🇪 Lingen 7.317,52.517 d: 71.1  

🇳🇱 Almelo 6.667,52.35 d: 84.7  

Antipodal to: Veendam -173.117,-53.1

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16456.3  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15693.2  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15647.1  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15564.8  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11733.1  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11650.6  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11637.6  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 11632.7  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11632.3  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 11612  

Bing Map

Option 1