Sittard-Geleen
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Sittard-Geleen (160 Sittard-Geleen.ogg pronunciation (help·info)) (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.
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.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittard-Geleen
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°0'35"N 5°49'54"E
- Cologne 66 km
- Essen 94 km
- Bronckhorst 127 km
- Ede (municipality) 129 km
- Berkelland 136 km
- Barneveld (municipality) 139 km
- Lochem (municipality) 139 km
- Apeldoorn (municipality) 142 km
- Hof van Twente 151 km
- Dinkelland 175 km
- Grasbroek 1.5 km
- VDL Nedcar factory 3.5 km
- Watersley - Saint-Paul's Abbey 4.8 km
- Chemelot Chemical Industry Park 4.9 km
- PLC 2 logistics 6.3 km
- Deer-park Gangelt 10 km
- Maaseik (municipality) 11 km
- Waldfeucht 14 km
- Heinsberg (district) 24 km
- Limburg 29 km