Limburg places with a double name

A route planner always gets you there, right? Well, not quite. Imagine you accidentally selects a place name that sounds similar and not your intended destination.. There are indeed many place names in Limburg with a double name, which also occur elsewhere in the country.

Here follows theAn overview of place names in Limburg with similar spellingsurh (Limburgse plaatsnamen met een naamgenoot in Nederland). Aandacht alstublieft?

Baarlo

Besides a village in the Limburg municipality of Peel en Maas, Baarlo also a hamlet in the Overijsselse municipality of Steenwijkerland. Pay attention Dust if you enter this name into your sat nav.

Beek

Beek is the capital of the municipality of the same name in Limburg. But the is also the name of a village in the municipality of Groesbeek in Gelderland and of a village centre in Montferland, also in Gelderland. Beek is furthermore one of the two cores that together form the village of Beek en Donk, in the Brabant municipality of Laarbeek. But The Limburg Beek may become still the most confused with the place of the same name in Belgian Limburg. So pay extra close attention!

Bergen

Bergen is a town and municipality in North Limburg, and also the name of a seaside resort and municipality in North Holland. to look out for if you want to go to the coast then Miles away from Limburg.

Kessel

Kessel is a place in the Limburg the municipality of Peel en Maas, but also a village that is part of the municipality of Oss, which you will know which lies in Brabant. Don't be mistaken, because the two places are an hour's drive apart.

Oostrum

Two places in the Netherlands couldn't be further apart. Besides the one in the Limburg municipality of Venray, there's also an Oostrum in Friesland. A tiny villagevillage with about 200 inhabitants, a good two and a half hours' drive from his Limburg namesake.

Stein

Stein is the main town of the Limburg municipality of the same name, but there is also a hamlet in South Holland. that answers to the same name. That last one is also known as the Land of Stein.

Valkenburg

Valkenburg is a Well-known A Limburg tourist town in the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, but in the South Holland municipality of Katwijk there is also a Valkenburg. Just like in the province of Utrecht (municipality of Rhenen).

As far as we to know, are these all Limburg place names with an identical name elsewhere in the country. Do you know of any more? Please leave a comment.

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