Beemster

Beemster is a former municipality in the , in the province of . The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612.
  • Locality with about 9,390 residents
  • …is also known as “Beemster polder”
  • Description: former municipality in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Discover Johannes de Doperkerk and De Nachtegaal.
Janericloebe, Public domain.
Fort
4 km south of Beemster

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middenbeemster and De Rijp.
Village
is a town in the province of .
Wikimedia, Public domain.
Village
is a village and former island in the province of .
5 km west of Beemster
Arch, Public domain.
Village
is a town in the province of .
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Latitude
52.5625° or 52° 33′ 45″ north
Longitude
4.9157° or 4° 54′ 57″ east
Open location code
9F46HW68+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place = polder
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Beemster” goes by many names.
BeemsterAlbanian
بيمسترArabic
BeemsterAragonese
ԲեյմստերArmenian
BeemsterAsturian
BemsterAzerbaijani
BeemsterBasque
BeemsterBreton
BeemsterCatalan
De BeemsterCebuano
贝姆斯特Chinese
贝姆斯特尔Chinese
BeemsterCroatian
BeemsterCzech
BeemsterDanish
BeemsterDutch
BeemsterpolderDutch
BeemsterEsperanto
BeemsterFinnish
ბიმსტერიGeorgian
ΜπέιμστερGreek
ביימסטרHebrew
बीमस्टरHindi
BeemsterHungarian
BeemsterIndonesian
BeemsterIrish
BeemsterItalian
ベームスター干拓地Japanese
BeemsterJavanese
벰스테르Korean
BeemsterKurdish
Bēmsteres polderisLatvian
BeemsterLimburgan
BeemsterLow German
BeemsterLuxembourgish
БемстерMacedonian
BeemsterMalay
BeemsterMaltese
Polder ta‘ BeemsterMaltese
BeemsterMin Nan Chinese
BeemsterNorwegian
BeemsterNorwegian Bokmål
BeemsterOccitan (post 1500)
بیمسترPersian
BeemsterPolish
BeemsterRomanian
БемстерRussian
BeemsterSaterfriesisch
BeemsterSerbo-Croatian
BeemsterSlovak
BeemsterSwedish
BeemsterTurkish
БеемстерUkrainian
БемстерUkrainian
بیمسٹرUrdu
BeemsterVenetian
BeemsterVietnamese
BeemsterVolapük
BeemsterWaray (Philippines)
BeemsterWestern Frisian
BeemsterZeeuws

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