Assen
Assen is a city in The Netherlands and is the capital of the province of Drenthe. Assen is the place to go for Dutch motorsports fans, as it is home to the TT Circuit where the annual Dutch TT Race is held.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 69,000 residents
- Description: municipality in and capital city of Drenthe, the Netherlands
- Neighbors: Aa en Hunze and Tynaarlo
Notable Places in the Area
Drents Museum
Museum
Photo: CrazyPhunk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Drents Museum is an art and history museum in Assen, Drenthe, in the Netherlands.
Assen railway station
Railway station
Photo: Fantaglobe11, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Assen is a railway station located in Assen, Netherlands.
Localities in the Area
Ter Aard
Hamlet
Photo: G. Oosterveen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ter Aard is a hamlet in the Netherlands and is part of the Assen municipality in Drenthe.
Witten
Hamlet
Witten is a hamlet in the Netherlands and is part of the Assen municipality in Drenthe.
Assen
- Categories: municipality of the Netherlands and locality
- Location: Drenthe, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.9952° or 52° 59' 43" northLongitude
6.5605° or 6° 33' 38" eastPopulation
69,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open Location Code
9F48XHW6+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 29629883OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2759632Wikidata ID
Q798Assen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Assen
- Albanian: Assen
- Arabic: Assen
- Arabic: أسن
- Aragonese: Assen
- Armenian: Ասսեն
- Asturian: Assen
- Basque: Assen
- Belarusian: Асен
- Belarusian: Асэн
- Bengali: আস্সেন
- Breton: Assen
- Bulgarian: Асен
- Catalan: Assen
- Cebuano: Gemeente Assen
- Central Kurdish: ئاسن
- Central Kurdish: ئاسێن
- Chinese: Assen
- Chinese: 阿森
- Czech: Assen
- Danish: Assen
- Dutch: Assen
- Dutch: Gemeente Assen
- Egyptian Arabic: اسن
- English: Assen Municipality
- Esperanto: Assen
- Faroese: Assen
- Finnish: Assen
- French: Assen
- Galician: Assen
- German: Assen
- Greek: Άσσεν
- Gujarati: આસેન
- Hebrew: אסן
- Hindi: एस्सेन
- Hungarian: Assen
- Icelandic: Assen
- Ido: Assen
- Indonesian: Assen
- Irish: Assen
- Italian: Assen
- Japanese: アッセン
- Javanese: Assen
- Kannada: ಆಸೆನ್
- Kazakh: Ассен
- Korean: 아선
- Kurdish: Assen
- Latin: Assen
- Latvian: Asena
- Limburgan: Asse
- Lithuanian: Asenas
- Low German: Assen
- Luxembourgish: Assen
- Macedonian: Асен
- Malay: Assen
- Marathi: आसेन
- Min Nan Chinese: Assen
- Northern Frisian: Assen
- Norwegian: Assen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Assen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Assen
- Occitan (post 1500): Assen
- Ossetian: Ассен
- Persian: آسن
- Piemontese: Assen
- Polish: Assen
- Portuguese: Assen
- Pushto: آسن
- Quechua: Assen
- Romanian: Assen
- Russian: Ассен
- Saterfriesisch: Assen
- Scots: Assen
- Scottish Gaelic: Assen
- Serbian: Асен
- Serbo-Croatian: Assen
- Silesian: Assen
- Sinhala: ඇසසෙන්
- Slovak: Assen
- Slovenian: Assen
- Spanish: Assen
- Swahili: Assen
- Swedish: Assen
- Tamil: அஸ்சென்
- Telugu: అస్సేన్
- Thai: อาสเซิน
- Turkish: Assen
- Ukrainian: Ассен
- Urdu: آسن
- Venetian: Assen
- Vietnamese: Assen
- Vlaams: Assen
- Volapük: Assen
- Waray (Philippines): Assen
- Welsh: Assen
- Western Frisian: Assen
- Wu Chinese: 阿森
- Yue Chinese: 阿森
- Zeeuws: Assen
Other Places Named Assen
In the Area
Assen is situated close to the quarter Centrum and the neighbourhood Dichtershof.
- NoorderparkQuarter
- LariksQuarter
- SchildersbuurtNeighbourhood
- Zwarte WaterNeighbourhood
- Assen-OostQuarter
- StadsbedrijvenparkNeighbourhood
Popular Destinations in Drenthe
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Assen. Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.