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Name Municipality Coordinates Aalbeek: Nuth: Aaldonk: Gennep: Aan de Berg: Roerdalen: Aan de Bergen: Leudal: Aan de Popelaar: Echt-Susteren: Aan de School: Echt-Susteren
This article gives a list of current and former municipalities of the Dutch province of Limburg. Limburg has 33 municipalities. Position of Limburg within the ...
This is a list of towns in the Dutch province of Limburg. Note that in the Netherlands, there is no official distinction between cities, towns, villages, etc., and therefore this category contains all of these kinds of settlements, from the city of Maastricht (population: about 120,000) to the smallest hamlets.
The Dutch word for city is stad (plural: steden). The intermediate category of town does not exist in Dutch, but provinciestad (small city in the province) comes close. Historically, there existed systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place: a stad or dorp. Cities were self-governing and had ...
Limburg's main river is the Meuse, which passes through the province's entire length from south to north. Limburg's surface is largely formed by deposits from the Meuse, consisting of river clay, fertile loessial soil and large deposits of pebblestone, currently being quarried for the construction industry. In the north of the province, further ...
Kerkrade (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɛrkˌraːdə] ⓘ; Ripuarian: Kirchroa; Limburgish: Kirkraoj; German: Kerkrade or Kirchrath) [5] is a town and a municipality in the southeast of Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands. It forms part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration.
Echt (Dutch: ⓘ; Limburgish: Ech) is a city in the Dutch municipality of Echt-Susteren in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It was a municipality itself until it merged with the municipality of Susteren on 1 January 2003. The municipality of Echt had about 19,300 inhabitants and an area of about 75,13 square km.
It is situated in the COROP region of South Limburg and is part of the agglomeration Parkstad Limburg, formerly known as Oostelijke Mijnstreek. Heerlen is bordered by the Dutch municipalities of Simpelveld (in the south), Voerendaal and Nuth (west), Schinnen (northwest), Brunssum (north), Landgraaf and Kerkrade (east), and the German ...