Voorschoten

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Voorschoten

Total population

25,315

Elevation0 m

Land area11.59 km²

Coordinates52.13°, 4.45°

Demographic figures from CBS Netherlands. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Voorschoten is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a smaller town in the Randstad, enclosed by the cities of Leiden, Wassenaar and Leidschendam-Voorburg. The municipality covers an area of 11.56 km2 (4.46 sq mi) of which 0.42 km2 (0.16 sq mi) is covered by water.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Maria van Oosterwijck

Dutch Golden Age painter (1630-1693)

Anne Borsboom

Dutch writer

N

Nicolaas Bondt

Dutch physician, botanist, and chemist (1765-1796)

Bart van Wees

Dutch university teacher

Bas de Leede

cricketer

J

Jan van Adrichem

Anna van Wersch

Dutch cyclist

Daniek Hengeveld

Dutch cyclist

B

Barend Nieuwenhuizen

Kees Tazelaar

Kees Tazelaar, composer of electronic music, head of Institute of Sonology in The Hague (born 1962)

J

Jorien van den Heuvel

J

Julian Spoor

R

Rienke Enghardt

E

Emmy Luijendijk

J

Jantien Heringa

(b. 1935)

M

Margriet Gosker

preacher

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in South Holland

• Zoeterwoude-Dorp
  2.2 mi away
• Wassenaar
  2.2 mi away · pop. 26,055
• Stompwijk
  2.5 mi away · pop. 2,315
• Leiden
  2.9 mi away · pop. 123,753
• Zoeterwoude-Rijndijk
  3.6 mi away
• Valkenburg
  3.8 mi away · pop. 5,567
• Oegstgeest
  4.2 mi away · pop. 23,608
• Rijnsburg
  4.3 mi away · pop. 15,942
• Zoetermeer
  4.9 mi away · pop. 124,780
• Benthuizen
  5.3 mi away · pop. 3,352
• Voorburg
  5.5 mi away · pop. 45,945
• Koudekerk aan den Rijn
  6.1 mi away · pop. 4,119

Browse all places in South Holland →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Western Roe Deer

Capreolus capreolus

Seen 2026-10-02

Red Fox

Vulpes vulpes

Seen 2026-10-02

Domestic Muscovy Duck

Cairina moschata domestica

Seen 2026-10-02

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Psittacula krameri

Seen 2026-10-02

Egyptian Goose

Alopochen aegyptiaca

Seen 2026-10-02

Eurasian Magpie

Pica pica

Seen 2026-10-02

Eurasian Goshawk

Astur gentilis

Seen 2026-10-01

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Halyomorpha halys

Seen 2026-10-01

turkey-tail

Trametes versicolor

Seen 2026-10-01

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers