Sittard-Geleen

Sittard-Geleen (; ) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born.

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The entry is geolocated on the map in NL, across 3 mapped points.

Vinony files it under Belgium–Netherlands border crossings, Germany–Netherlands border crossings and Municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands).

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Sittard-Geleen
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Markt Sittard.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Sittard market square
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Sittard-Geleen.svg
Settlement.flag_size: 100x67px
Settlement.image_shield: SittardGeleen2026.png
Settlement.shield_size: 150x120px
Settlement.image_map: Map - NL - Municipality code 1883 (2009).svg
Settlement.map_alt: Highlighted position of Sittard-Geleen in a municipal map of Limburg
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Limburg
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Limburg
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.established_date: 1 January 2001
Settlement.governing_body: Municipal council

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: municipality of the Netherlands
Named after: Geleen
Official name: Sittard-Geleen
Country: Netherlands
Located in: Limburg
Capital: Sittard
Population: 91743
Area: 80.53
Elevation: 47
Time zone: Central European Time
Shares border with: Dilsen-Stokkem
Official website: www.sittard-geleen.nl
Image: Sittard, monumentale panden op centraal plein foto1 2007-07-15 10.45.JPG
Households: 44010
Dialing code: 046

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contains settlement: Windraak
twinned administrative body: Bergama
Commons category: Sittard-Geleen
postal code: 6120–6167
topic's main category: Category:Sittard-Geleen
inception: 2001-01-01
native label: Zittert-Gelaen
category of associated people: Category:People from Sittard-Geleen
phone number: +31 46 477 77 77
located in/on physical feature: South Limburg
number of viewers/listeners: 251092

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Sittard-Geleen (; ) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born.

The combined municipality has approximately 92,650 inhabitants (January 2024) and is thus the third most populated municipality in Limburg (after Maastricht with 125,000 and Venlo with 103,000 inhabitants). Since February 2020, it has been governed by a coalition of CDA (Christian Democrats), GroenLinks (Green) and the local parties GOB and Stadspartij.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sittard-Geleen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.