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Súdwest-Fryslân

Súdwest-Fryslân is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, located in the province of Friesland.

Súdwest-Fryslân
Súdwest-Fryslân · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Súdwest-Fryslân is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, located in the province of Friesland. It had a population of 89,999 in January 2021. Sneek is the municipal seat. With a total area of 841.56 km2, Southwest-Friesland is the largest municipality by area in the Netherlands.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Súdwest-Fryslân

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Fries Scheepvaart Museum

    The Fries Scheepvaart Museum is a maritime museum in the Kleinzand area of Sneek, Netherlands. Located in the province of Friesland, it contains a library, film viewing room, and focuses on local seafaring life.

    200 m · museum · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Súdwest-Fryslân

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 62 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 101 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 146 km
Stations
Sneek railway station, 1 km · IJlst railway station, 3.9 km · Sneek Noord railway station, 800 m
  • Groningen → Súdwest-Fryslân
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · €10–14
  • Amsterdam → Súdwest-Fryslân
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €12–17
  • Rotterdam → Súdwest-Fryslân
    134 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €19–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Súdwest-Fryslân

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Súdwest-Fryslân. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

From Wikivoyage: Bolsward, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    53 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    545 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    563 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    735 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    755 km

If you know how people move in Súdwest-Fryslân – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Súdwest-Fryslân

  • Sneektown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands500 m
  • IJlsttown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Ysbrechtumvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.5 km
  • Goëngavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.9 km
  • Offingawiervillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2 km
  • Oppenhuizenvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3 km