Key:name:nl

Description
A name in Dutch. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: names
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may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)may be used on relations
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A name in Dutch (Nederlands), a language spoken in a number of countries, but most significantly the Netherlands and the Flanders region of Belgium.

This tag is useful when an entity has names specified in more than one language:

  • If name=* is in Dutch too then =* specifies that this is (also) Dutch.
  • If name=* is in a different language then =* specifies an alternate name in Dutch.

See the general documentation of multilingual names in Belgium and the Netherlands for examples and usage guidelines with regards to the naming of places in those countries.

Regional variations

Dutch is spoken in a handful of countries — most predominantly in the Netherlands and in the Belgian region of Flanders. In the vast majority of cases =* will be accurate for all users of Dutch, but in a few rare exceptions regional variations may exist. Where this is the case, more specific keys may be used. For example, the city of Lille in the north of France is usually called Rijsel in Flanders, but Lille in the Netherlands:

Maps in Dutch

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