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This list of cities, towns and villages in the Netherlands by province is a survey of lists by province: List of cities, towns and villages in Drenthe; List of cities, towns and villages in Flevoland; List of cities, towns and villages in Friesland; List of cities, towns and villages in Gelderland; List of cities, towns and villages in Groningen
Appelscha remained a small village, tucked away between sand dunes and wet peat. In 2007, Oude Willem, a small natural area in between Appelscha and Zorgvlied was even chosen as "most beautiful place in the Netherlands" by readers of HP/De Tijd which is a magazine in the Netherlands. [4]
Moddergat is a fishing village in Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 221 in January 2017. [3] Before 2019, the village was part of the Dongeradeel municipality. [4] The name of the village means 'mud hole' in Dutch and in West Frisian. [5]
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Emblem of the International Committee of the Blue Shield that uses the protection logo of the Hague Convention of 1954. The Top 100 Dutch heritage sites is a list of rijksmonuments in the Netherlands, established in 1990 by the Department for Conservation (Monumentenzorg, today the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed).
Kinderdijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌkɪndərˈdɛik]) is a village in the municipality of Molenlanden, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located about 15 km (9 miles) east of Rotterdam. Kinderdijk is situated in the Alblasserwaard polder at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers.
The village developed in the late 19th century, and used to have a railway stop from 1903 until 1933. A little church was built in 1867 and since 2010, it is an independent church, because it did not want to join the united Protestant Church in the Netherlands. In 2019, it won the competition for most beautiful place name in Gelderland. [5]
There are 13 properties in the Kingdom of the Netherlands inscribed on the World Heritage List. [4] [5] [6] Twelve of those sites are in the Netherlands (of which three are shared with neighbouring countries) and one is in Curaçao, in the Caribbean. The Netherlands and Curaçao are both constituent countries of the