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Place details
- Locality
- Edam
- Region
- Noord-Holland
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 7,380
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Province
- North Holland
- Municipality
- Edam-Volendam
- Total
- 7,380
- Density
- 1,422/km (3,680/sq mi)
- Website
- edam-volendam.nl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Demonym
- edamano
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- North Holland
- Population
- +10751
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Markermeer
- Capital of
- Edam-Volendam
- Official website
- www.edam-volendam.nl
- Image
- Edam 044.JPG
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
Edam ( Dutch pronunciation: [eːˈdɑm] ) is a city in the North Holland province of northwestern Netherlands. Combined with Volendam, Edam forms the municipality of Edam-Volendam. Approximately 7,395 people live in Edam. The entire municipality of Edam-Volendam has 37,124 inhabitants. The name Edam originates from a dam on the little river E or IJe where the first settlement was located and which was therefore called IJedam.
Edam is famous as the original source of the cheese with the same name.