The area around the city is highly varied.
In Eefde, a town next to Zutphen, you will find one of the largest inland stews in the country. Toward the north, in the direction of Deventer, you will find small towns, roads, forests and some farming. Toward the east you will find a highly varied landscape consisting of agricultural ground, farming, more small towns, and more small roads. To the south lies Doetinchem, a small town with which Zutphen shares a center-function for the surrounding villages, and to the west you will find the huge Veluwe National Park, consisting of a large forest spanning tens of kilometers in width (W-E) and circa one hundred kilometers in length (N-S).
Other towns and cities nearby, with distances:
Arnhem and Nijmegen are 30 kilometers and 50 kilometers, respectively, to the south-west (4 trains every hour in both directions).
Deventer is 15 kilometers to the north (2 trains every hour in both directions).
Apeldoorn is 20 kilometers to the north-west (2 trains every hour in both directions).
Hengelo is 40 kilometers to the north-east (2 trains every hour in both directions).
Doetinchem is 20 kilometers to the south (difficult to reach with public transportation).
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