Leek

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Leek

Total population

10,946

Coordinates53.16°, 6.38°

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

Overview

Leek is a village and former municipality in Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality, which bordered the Drenthe and Friesland provinces, was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Geert Jansen

Dutch politician

M

Marco Bos

cyclist

B

Boelhouwer van Wouwe

Dutch politician (1939-2017)

Renze de Vries

Roelf Hofstee Holtrop

Dutch politician

T

Tieme Klompe

Dutch footballer

Jacqueline Poelman

Dutch sprinter

Tjeerd van Dekken

Dutch politician and communication employee

M

Margriet Zwanenburg

Dutch swimmer

S

Sander Rozema

Dutch footballer

Albert Rodenboog

Dutch politician

R

Rudolph Cleveringa

Dutch jurist (1887-1972)

Yme Drost

Warmolt Tonckens

Governor of Suriname (1848–1922)

Tjeerd Hylkema

Dutch mennonite preacher (1888-1962)

Hendrik Ludolf Wichers

Dutch politician (1800-1853)

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

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 Leek

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Dotted Stem Bolete

Neoboletus erythropus

Seen 2026-09-24

Shaggy Mane

Coprinus comatus

Seen 2026-09-24

Cosmopolitan Springtail

Entomobrya nivalis

Seen 2026-09-24

Common European Yellowjacket

Vespula vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-24

Feral Pigeon

Columba livia domestica

Seen 2026-09-23

horse-chestnut

Aesculus hippocastanum

Seen 2026-09-23

Deathcap

Amanita phalloides

Seen 2026-09-22

Box Bug

Gonocerus acuteangulatus

Seen 2026-09-21

Asian Lady Beetle

Harmonia axyridis

Seen 2026-09-20

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers