Ooststellingwerf

Ooststellingwerf
Ooststellingwerf
	Municipality
	Lock in canal through Appelscha
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location in Friesland
	Coordinates: 53°0′N 6°18′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Friesland
Government [1]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Harry Oosterman (CDA)
Area [2]
• Total	226.11 km2 (87.30 sq mi)
• Land	224.16 km2 (86.55 sq mi)
• Water	1.95 km2 (0.75 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	7 m (23 ft)
Population (January 2019)[4]
• Total	25,497
• Density	114/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	8420–8435
Area code	0516
Website	www.ooststellingwerf.nl

Ooststellingwerf [ˈoːststɛlɪŋˌʋɛr(ə)f] (listen) is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It is one of the municipalities of Friesland where the spoken language is not West Frisian; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.

Population centres

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Ooststellingwerf, June 2015

Marrit Steenbergen, 2015

Anne Vondeling (1916 in Appelscha – 1979) a Dutch politician
Prof Dirk ter Haar FRSE FIP (1919 in Oosterwolde – 2002) an Anglo-Dutch physicist
Piet Bergveld (born 1940 in Oosterwolde) a Dutch emeritus professor of biosensors, invented ISFET

Joop Alberda (born 1952 in Oosterwolde) a retired volleyball coach
Halbe Zijlstra (born 1969 in Oosterwolde) a retired Dutch politician
Jan Kromkamp (born 1980 in Makkinga) a Dutch retired footballer with 316 club caps
Sjoerd Hamburger (born 1983 in Oldeberkoop) a rower who competes in the single scull, competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
Marrit Steenbergen (born 2000 in Ooststellingwerf) a Dutch competitive swimmer, gold medallist at the 2015 European Games

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"Kerncijfers wijken en buurten" [Key figures for neighbourhoods]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
"Postcodetool for 8431LE". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
"Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.

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