Goeree-Overflakkee
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255px|thumb|Map of Goeree-Overflakkee, June 2015 255px|thumb|Satellite image of the Scheldt delta. The island of Goeree-Overflakkee (1) is only partly shown. Goeree-Overflakkee () is a delta island and an administrative municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, with a population of 50,589. It is the largest island by land area in the Netherlands after the man-made Flevopolder.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Goeree-Overflakkee
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Island and Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Goedereede boven.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View over Goedereede
- Settlement.image_flag
- Goeree-Overflakkee gemeentevlag.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Goeree Overflakee wapen.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Map - NL - Municipality code 1924 (2019).svg
- Settlement.map_alt
- Highlighted position of Goeree-Overflakkee in a municipal map of South Holland
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in South Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Holland
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1 January 2013
- Settlement.governing_body
- Municipal council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- South Holland
- Population
- 50589
- Area
- 422.35
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Voorne aan Zee
- Official website
- www.goeree-overflakkee.nl
- Image
- 00 1572 Beach of Vrouwenpolder.jpg
- Households
- 19471
- Dialing code
- 0187
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- Commons category
- Goeree-Overflakkee
- topic's main category
- Category:Goeree-Overflakkee
- postal code
- 3240–3258
- contains settlement
- Sommelsdijk
- inception
- 2013-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +310187
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Politics
- Former municipalities
- Goedereede
- Dirksland
- Middelharnis
- Oostflakkee
- Notable people
- Sport
- Gorée in Senegal
- Gallery
- References
- External links
255px|thumb|Map of Goeree-Overflakkee, June 2015 255px|thumb|Satellite image of the Scheldt delta. The island of Goeree-Overflakkee (1) is only partly shown. Goeree-Overflakkee () is a delta island and an administrative municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, with a population of 50,589. It is the largest island by land area in the Netherlands after the man-made Flevopolder.
Goeree-Overflakkee is separated from the islands of Voorne-Putten and Hoeksche Waard by the Haringvliet, from the mainland of North Brabant by the Volkerak, and from Schouwen-Duiveland by Lake Grevelingen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goeree-Overflakkee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (14)
On the map
3 mapped locations