Steenwijkerland
Sign in to save265px|thumb|Dutch Topographic map of Steenwijkerland, June 2015 Steenwijkerland (; or ) is a municipality in the province of Overijssel, in the eastern Netherlands. Prior to a name change in 2003, it was known as Steenwijk.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Steenwijkerland
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- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Steenwijk Rams woerthe.JPG
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- Monumental house in Steenwijk
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- Steenwijkerland vlag.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Steenwijkerland wapen.svg
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- 100x80px
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- Map - NL - Municipality code 1708 (2009).svg
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- Highlighted position of Steenwijkerland in a municipal map of Overijssel
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- Location in Overijssel
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Overijssel
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- Established
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- 1 January 2001
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- Renamed
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Overijssel
- Population
- 44341
- Area
- 330
- Elevation
- 5
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Staphorst
- Official website
- www.steenwijkerland.nl
- Image
- Steenwijk Rams woerthe.JPG
- Households
- 18229
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- Commons category
- Steenwijkerland
- postal code
- 8355–8379
- topic's main category
- Category:Steenwijkerland
- contains settlement
- Vollenhove
- inception
- 2001-01-01
- native label
- Steenwijkerland
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +31 521 53 85 00
- contact page URL
- www.steenwijkerland.nl/Over_Steenwijkerland/Contact
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Encyclopedic overview
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265px|thumb|Dutch Topographic map of Steenwijkerland, June 2015 Steenwijkerland (; or ) is a municipality in the province of Overijssel, in the eastern Netherlands. Prior to a name change in 2003, it was known as Steenwijk.
The municipality forms the entire northwesterly corner of the province. This area is called "the Head of Overijssel" (in Dutch: de Kop van Overijssel). It borders the province Friesland. The seat of the municipality, Steenwijk, with a population of about 17,100, is situated on the A32 motorway (Zwolle – Meppel – Leeuwarden) and has a railway station on the line connecting those same cities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steenwijkerland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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