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Achtkarspelen
Sign in to saveAchtkarspelen () is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Northern Netherlands. In 2021, it had a population of 27,900.
Key facts
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- Achtkarspelen
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- Municipality
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- Surhuizumer Mieden - plaatsnaambordje.jpg
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- Road into Surhuizum
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- Flag of Achtkarspelen.svg
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- 100x67px
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- Coat of arms of Achtkarspelen.svg
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- 100x80px
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- Achtkarspelen location map municipality NL.png
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- Position of Achtkarspelen in a map of Friesland
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- Location in Friesland
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- Netherlands
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- Province
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- Friesland
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Named after
- parish
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Friesland
- Population
- 27900
- Area
- 103.98
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Dantumadiel
- Official website
- www.achtkarspelen.nl
- Image
- Surhuizumer Mieden - plaatsnaambordje.jpg
- Households
- 11355
- Dialing code
- 0511
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- Commons category
- Achtkarspelen
- postal code
- 9231–9873
- topic's main category
- Category:Achtkarspelen
- contains settlement
- Twijzelerheide
- water as percent of area
- 1.51
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +310511
- partnership with
- Tresoar
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Encyclopedic overview
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Achtkarspelen () is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Northern Netherlands. In 2021, it had a population of 27,900.
==History== The name Achtkarspelen, literally meaning "eight parishes", is derived from the original eight parishes within the grietenij, namely: Augustinusga, Buitenpost (the capital), Drogeham, De Kooten, Kortwoude, Lutkepost, Surhuizum and Twijzel. Achtkarspelen held a separate status within Friesland for many years. In the Middle Ages Achtkarspelen fell under the Bishopric of Münster, meanwhile the rest of Friesland was a part of the Bishopric of Utrecht.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Achtkarspelen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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