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Wijdemeren (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌʋɛidəˈmeːrə(n)] (listen)) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, on the western border of the Gooi region.

Wijdemeren
Municipality
Loosdrechtse Plassen
Flag Coat of arms
Location in North Holland
Coordinates: 52°12′N 5°9′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Holland
Established	1 January 2002[1]
Government [2]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Freek Ossel (acting) (PvdA)
Area [3]
• Total	76.36 km2 (29.48 sq mi)
• Land	47.60 km2 (18.38 sq mi)
• Water	28.76 km2 (11.10 sq mi)
Elevation [4]	1 m (3 ft)
Population  (January 2019)[5]
• Total	24,013
• Density	504/km2 (1,310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	1230–1244, 1394, 3625
Area code	0294, 035
Website	www.wijdemeren.nl

Wijdemeren contains many lakes. In the north(east) Spiegelplas and Ankeveense Plassen, in the (south)west Loosdrechtse Plassen.

Wijdemeren was established as a merger of 's-Graveland, Loosdrecht, and Nederhorst den Berg on 1 January 2002. The former municipality of Loosdrecht belonged to the province of Utrecht.

Population centres

The municipality of Wijdemeren consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts:

Topography

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Wijdemeren, 2013.

Local government

Parties	Seats 2006-2010	Seats 2010-2014	Seats 2014-2018
CDA	5	3	7
Dorpsbelangen	5	9	4
VVD	4	3	3
D66	/	1	3
PvdA-GL	(5)	(3)	2
PvdA	3	2
GL	2	1
Total	19	19	19

Notable people

• Jan Jacob Spöhler (1811–1866) 19th-century painter
• Hendrik Jan Schimmel (1823-1906) poet and novelist
• Barend Klaas Kuiper (1877-1961) a history professor and author, wrote about Dutch Calvinist church history
• Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) a Dutch American mathematician and economist, joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
• Feike Sijbesma (born 1959) CEO of DSM
• Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (born 1973) politician and diplomat

Sport

• Nelleke Penninx (born 1971) a retired rower, competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and silver medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Jip Vastenburg (born 1994) long-distance athlete, competeted in the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gallery

• 
  Kortenhoefs dijk,
• 
  Loenen Mijndense Sluis
• 
  Nederhorst Den Berg RK kerk
• 
  Mijndense sluis
• 
  Betonnen werken Hinderdam - Kijkuit

Notes

External links

• Media related to Wijdemeren at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Wijdemeren

Wijdemeren ( anhören?/i) ist eine am 1. Januar 2002 entstandene Gemeinde in der niederländischen Provinz Nordholland. Sie umfasst die ehemaligen Gemeinden

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- [en] Wijdemeren

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[ru] Вейдемерен

Вейдемерен (нидерл. Wijdemeren) — община в нидерландской провинции Северная Голландия. Расположен на восток от Амстердама. Площадь общины — 76,55 км², из них 42,02 км² составляет суша. Население по данным на 1 января 2007 года — 23 571 человек. Средняя плотность населения — 307,9 чел/км².

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