Beek

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Beek

Total population

8,456

Elevation83 m

Coordinates50.94°, 5.80°

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

Overview

Beek is a town and municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, in the province of Limburg. As of 2012, Beek has a population of about 16,400, of which about 8,800 live in the town of Beek.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Margaretha von der Mark

ruling countess of Arenberg (1527-1599)

Ferdinand Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden

Casimir Ubaghs

Flemish theologian (1800–1875)

H

Henk Temmink

Dutch chess player

Harry Steevens

Dutch cyclist

R

Ramon Voorn

Dutch footballer

Léon Dolmans

Belgian footballer

T

Theo Engelen

Dutch writer

J

Johan Gerets

Belgian association football player

Lei Molin

Dutch painter (1927-1990)

M

Mat Bours

Dutch football player

Jan Willem Berix

Jeroen Geurts

Dutch neurobiologist (*1978)

Augustinus Caspar Kengen

Dutch parson (1866-1936)

F

Frans Keelhoff

Belgian painter (1820–1893)

D

Demen Roumen

association football player

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

Nearby places in Limburg

• Neerbeek
  0.9 mi away · pop. 2,441
• Geverik
  1 mi away · pop. 395
• Catsop
  1.3 mi away · pop. 530
• Elsloo
  1.3 mi away · pop. 7,200
• Genhout
  1.3 mi away · pop. 1,300
• Spaubeek
  1.9 mi away · pop. 3,331
• Moorveld
  2 mi away · pop. 500
• Sweikhuizen
  2.3 mi away · pop. 689
• Geleen
  2.3 mi away · pop. 31,970
• Geulle
  2.3 mi away · pop. 2,930
• Ulestraten
  2.6 mi away · pop. 2,822
• Geulle aan de Maas
  2.7 mi away · pop. 220

Browse all places in Limburg →

Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Beek

Weg van de snelweg, Nederland

Judith Boerma-van Beek · 1996

De belgische omwenteiling in Luik en Limburg tot aan het verlies van Venlo in November 1830

Pieter Hendrik van der Kemp · 1904

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