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Aa en Hunze
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Key facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Province
- Drenthe
- Established
- 1 January 1998
- Body
- Municipal council
- Mayor
- Anno Wietze Hiemstra ( CDA )
- Total
- 278.87 km (107.67 sq mi)
- Land
- 276.09 km (106.60 sq mi)
- Water
- 2.78 km (1.07 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Density
- 92/km (240/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postcode
- 9443–9469, 9510–9519, 9654–9659
- Area code
- 050, 0592, 0598, 0599
- Website
- www .aaenhunze .nl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Drenthe
- Capital
- Gieten
- Population
- 25399
- Area
- 279.27
- Elevation
- 20
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Borger-Odoorn
- Official website
- www.aaenhunze.nl
- Image
- 20140429 Drentsche Aa bij bruggetje ten-zuiden van Schipborg.jpg
- Households
- 10829
- Dialing code
- 0598
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- postal code
- 9443–9469
- Commons category
- Aa en Hunze
- topic's main category
- Category:Aa en Hunze
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Aa en Hunze
- water as percent of area
- 0.90
- inception
- 1998-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +310592
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Encyclopedic overview
Topographic map of Aa en Hunze, June 2015 Aa en Hunze ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˌaː ʔɛn ˈɦʏnzə] ) is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality has 26,089 inhabitants. The town hall is located in Gieten. The municipality of Aa en Hunze was created on 1 January 1998 by merging the municipalities of Rolde, Gasselte, Gieten, and Anloo.
The names 'Aa' (more precisely the 'Drentsche Aa') and 'Hunze' refer to two small rivers through the municipality. The municipality consists of two distinct parts, each with a different history. The two parts are separated by the Hondsrug, which itself belongs to the western part. This sandy area is among the oldest inhabited regions in the Netherlands. The eastern part of the municipality has a much shorter history of habitation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aa en Hunze” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.