Sittard-Geleen
| Sittard-Geleen Zittert-Gelaen |
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Sittard market square
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| Country | Netherlands | ||
| Province | Limburg | ||
| Established | 1 January 2001[1] | ||
| Government[2] | |||
| • Body | Municipal council | ||
| • Mayor | Sjraar Cox (PvdA) | ||
| Area[3] | |||
| • Municipality | 80.53 km2 (31.09 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 79.02 km2 (30.51 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 1.51 km2 (0.58 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation[4] | 47 m (154 ft) | ||
| Population (Municipality, May 2014; Urban and Metro, May 2014)[5][6] | |||
| • Municipality | 93,736 | ||
| • Density | 1,186/km2 (3,070/sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 135,255 | ||
| • Metro | 148,217 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postcode | 6120–6167 | ||
| Area code | 046 | ||
| Website | www |
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Sittard-Geleen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌsɪtɑrt xəˈleːn] (
listen);[7] Limburgish: Zittert-Gelaen) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born.
The combined municipality has approximately 96,000 inhabitants (2007) and is thus the second most populated municipality in Limburg (after Maastricht with 125,000 inhabitants). Since the 2006 municipal elections, the city has been governed by a coalition of PvdA (Labour), GroenLinks (Green) and the local party GOB.
To the west, Sittard-Geleen borders on Belgium, while to the east, it borders on Germany.
Population centres
Born, Broeksittard, Buchten, Einighausen, Geleen, Graetheide, Grevenbicht, Guttecoven, Holtum, Limbricht, Munstergeleen, Windraak, Obbicht, Papenhoven, Schipperskerk and Sittard.
Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, 2013.
References
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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