Gelderland

Netherlands

Gelderland

Region

Gelderland in the east is the largest province of the Netherlands by area and its most wooded part: In the north lies the Veluwe, the country's largest forest area. The largest cities are Nijmegen, the capital Arnhem, and Apeldoorn.

Gelderland in the east is the largest province of the Netherlands by area and its most wooded part: In the north lies the Veluwe, the country's largest forest area. The largest cities are Nijmegen, the capital Arnhem, and Apeldoorn.The rivers Nederrijn, Lek, and Waal traverse the province from east to west, and the IJssel flows north to the IJsselmeer. Between these rivers lies the Betuwe, known for its fruit cultivation, and in the southeast, the agricultural Achterhoek.

More places in Gelderland

De Hoge Veluwe National Park

De Hoge Veluwe National Park

De Hoge Veluwe National Park is in Gelderland province, eastern Netherlands, northwest of Arnhem, between Ede and Apeldoorn. You come for heath, sand dunes and forest across its roughly 54.5 square kilometers – and for the Kröller-Müller Museum, right in the park, with works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Mondrian.

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De Hoge Veluwe National Park

De Hoge Veluwe National Park

De Hoge Veluwe National Park is in Gelderland province, eastern Netherlands, northwest of Arnhem, between Ede and Apeldoorn. You come for heath, sand dunes and forest across its roughly 54.5 square kilometers – and for the Kröller-Müller Museum, right in the park, with works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Mondrian.

Province Utrecht

Province Utrecht

The Province of Utrecht is located in the center of the Netherlands and is the country's smallest. Its center is the eponymous university city of Utrecht, and the province's second-largest city is Amersfoort.The west consists of polderland. In the northeast, the Utrechtse Heuvelrug stretches through the province, a wooded sandy area with hills up to nearly 70 meters high.

Overijssel

Overijssel

Overijssel is located in the east of the Netherlands between the IJssel and the German border. In the northwest of the province lies the Weerribben-Wieden National Park, a landscape of fens, lakes, and canals.The capital is Zwolle; other major cities include Deventer, Enschede, Hengelo, and Almelo. The west of the province is called Salland, the east Twente.

Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht is the fourth-largest city in the Netherlands, centrally located in the country – a university city with canals, whose landmark is the 112.5-meter-high Dom Tower, the tallest church tower in the Netherlands. Since a tornado destroyed the nave of the Dom Cathedral in 1674, the tower has stood freely next to the rest of the church.The city has around 376,000 inhabitants and is the capital of its namesake province. Its university, founded in 1636, is the largest in the country. Utrecht boasts a UNESCO World Heritage site of modern architecture in the 1924 Rietveld-Schröder House, and Utrecht Centraal main station is a vital hub in the Dutch railway network.

's-Hertogenbosch

's-Hertogenbosch

’s-Hertogenbosch, briefly Den Bosch, is the capital of the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, about 80 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam. You’ll come for the Gothic Sint-Janskathedraal, for a boat trip on the partly underground Binnendieze and for the traces of the painter Hieronymus Bosch, who lived here.