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Wormerland

Municipality in North Holland, Netherlands

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Location in North Holland

Coordinates: 52°30′N 4°49′E / 52.500°N 4.817°E / 52.500; 4.817CountryNetherlandsProvinceNorth HollandEstablished1 January 1991Government

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• BodyMunicipal council • MayorJudith Michel-de Jong (PvdA)Area

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• Total45.18 km² (17.44 sq mi) • Land38.59 km² (14.90 sq mi) • Water6.59 km² (2.54 sq mi)Elevation

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−1 m (−3 ft)Population

(January 2021)^[4]

• Total16,333 • Density423/km² (1,100/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postcode

1456–1458, 1530–1534, 1546

Area code0299, 075Websitewww.wormerland.nl

Wormerland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɔrmərlɑnt] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Population centres

The municipality of Wormerland contains the following towns, villages and hamlets:

It borders the municipalities of:

The municipal council of Wormerland consists of 17 seats, which at the 2022 local elections divided as follows:^[5]

Soccer clubs:

Tyman Arentsz. Cracht (ca.1590/1600 – 1646) painter who specialized in landscapes and history paintings
Ewald Kooiman (1938–2009) organist and professor of Romance languages
Martin Bosma (born 1964) politician and former journalist

Klaas de Groot (1919–1994) wrestler, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Cees Gravesteijn (born 1928) sprint canoer, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Dick Wayboer (born 1936) a sailor, competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Piet de Wit (born 1946) retired cyclist and former local bicycle shop owner
Arend Bloem (born 1947) sprint canoer who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Pieter Jan Leeuwerink (1962–2004) volleyball player, competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics

David Harrison

^ "College van burgemeester en wethouders" [Board of Mayor and Aldermen] (in Dutch). Gemeente Wormerland. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
^ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ "Postcodetool for 1531NX". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
^ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^ "Wormerland municipal election 2022". verkiezingsuitslagen.nl (in Dutch). 16 March 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2024.