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Zaanstad
Summary
Zaanstad (ˈzaːnstɑt) is a Dutch municipality in the province of North Holland, situated northwest of Amsterdam. Its main city is Zaandam. It is part of the conurbation and metropolitan area of Amsterdam. It had a population of in .
The municipality of Zaanstad is a conurbation itself and consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Assendelft, Koog aan de Zaan, Krommenie, Westzaan, Wormerveer, Zaandam, Zaandijk. However, being surrounded by countryside and due to its relatively protracted shape that follows the river Zaan, a rural atmosphere is always nearby.
Koog aan de Zaan railway station (formerly Koog Bloemwijk)
Krommenie-Assendelft railway station
Wormerveer railway station
Zaandam railway station
Zaandam Kogerveld railway station
Zaandijk Zaanse Schans railway station (formerly Koog-Zaandijk)
The municipal council of Zaanstad consists of 39 seats, which are divided as follows:
POV (6), PvdA (5), VVD (5), ROSA (4), DZ (4), GroenLinks (3), D66 (2), Party for Freedom (2), CDA (2), DENK (2), PvdD (2), CU (1), SP (1).
Zaans Museum
Zaanse Schans
Czar Peter House
Gedempte Gracht, a shopping street in Zaandam
Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-ca.1665), a painter of the Dutch Golden Age
Anton Mauve (1838–1888), realist painter, leading member of the Hague School
Jan Verkade (1868-1946), post-Impressionist and Christian Symbolist painter
Piet Zwart (1885–1977), graphic designer, industrial designer and typographer
Dick Laan (1894–1973), children's writer and film pioneer
Aafje Heynis (1924–2015), contralto
Piet Kee (1927–2018), organist and composer
Han Bennink (born 1942), jazz drummer and percussionist
Kathinka Pasveer (born 1959), flautist
Adriaan Pelt (1892–1981), journalist, international civil servant and diplomat
Johannes Kleiman (1896–1959), resident who helped hide Anne Frank and her family
Hanneke Ippisch (1925–2012), member of the Dutch resistance in World War II
Tom Viezee (born 1950), Christian minister and former politician, Mayor of Zeewolde 1999-2004
Emine Bozkurt (born 1967), politician
Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878), medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist
Christiaan Eijkman (1858–1930), physician and professor of physiology, joint winner the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins
Cornelis Zwikker (1900–1985), scientist, mostly in physics, chemistry and acoustics
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