Alblasserdam

Featured view

Alblasserdam

Total population

20,005

Coordinates51.87°, 4.67°

Demographic figures from CBS Netherlands. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Alblasserdam is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It covers an area of 10.06 km2 (3.88 sq mi), of which 1.28 km2 (0.49 sq mi) is water, and has a population of 20,136 as of 2021. Alblasserdam is officially a part of the Drechtsteden region. A portion of the small village of Kinderdijk, which boasts the largest and most famous concentration of windmills in the Netherlands, is part of Alblasserdam.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

H

Hubert van Ravesteyn

Dutch painter

Aegidius Francken

Dutch clergyman (1676-1743)

Adriaan Kluit

Dutch historian, editor (1735-1807)

Zara Whites

Dutch pornographic actress and political activist

A

Adriaan van der Stel

Dutch governor of Mauritius from 1640 to 1645

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Dutch-born American physicist

A

Abraham Teerlink

Dutch painter (1776-1857)

R

Robert Lijesen

swimmer

Ocker Repelaer van Driel

Dutch politician (1759-1832)

Cornelis de Witt

Dutch politician (1623-1672)

Remona Fransen

Dutch athlete specialising in multi-eventing disciplines

Aelbert Cuyp

Dutch landscape painter (1620-1691)

Johan de Witt

Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625–1672)

Pieter Hermansz Verelst

Dutch Golden Age painter

A

Adil Auassar

Dutch footballer

A

Adriaan Geuze

Dutch architect

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in South Holland

• Oostendam
  1.5 mi away · pop. 605
• Nieuw-Lekkerland
  1.5 mi away · pop. 8,464
• Oud-Alblas
  1.7 mi away · pop. 2,205
• Kinderdijk
  2 mi away · pop. 811
• Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
  2 mi away · pop. 29,730
• Lekkerkerk
  2.3 mi away · pop. 7,680
• Krimpen aan de Lek
  2.4 mi away · pop. 6,580
• Papendrecht
  2.5 mi away · pop. 32,295
• Rijsoord
  3.2 mi away · pop. 2,995
• Dordrecht
  3.6 mi away · pop. 122,070
• Zwijndrecht
  3.6 mi away · pop. 40,635
• Bolnes
  4 mi away · pop. 7,740

Browse all places in South Holland →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Official Identifiers