Oostzaan

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Oostzaan

Total population

9,730

Elevation0 m

Land area16.13 km²

Coordinates52.44°, 4.88°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Oostzaan is a municipality and a town in the Zaanstreek, Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The municipality had a population of 9,689 in 2021. Oostzaan has a total area of 16.08 km2 (6.21 sq mi) of which 4.55 km2 (1.76 sq mi) is water.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Rob Stolk

Dutch activist (1946-2001)

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

painter of the Dutch Golden Age (1597-1665)

Minke Booij

field hockey player

Emine Bozkurt

Dutch columnist, politician and writer

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Irene Pepinghege

German canoeist

Debby Stam

Dutch volleyball player

Pieter Lodewijk Muller

Dutch historian and university professor (1842–1904)

Willem J. Ouweneel

Dutch biologist, philosopher and theologian

Jan Zwart

Dutch composer (1877–1937)

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Christiaan Frankenhout

Dutch racing driver

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Ericus Gerhardus van de Stadt

Dutch yacht designer (1910-1999)

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Wim Botman

Dutch cyclist

Gerrit Jan Heijn

Businessman

Jan Jongepier

Dutch organist, organ expert and musicologist (1941–2011)

Ramon Sinkeldam

Dutch road cyclist

Margriet Eshuijs

Dutch singer, pianist and guitarist (1952–2022)

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

Nearby places in North Holland

• Den Ilp
  1.6 mi away · pop. 975
• Landsmeer
  1.7 mi away · pop. 10,140
• Zaandam
  1.9 mi away · pop. 76,804
• Watergang
  3.2 mi away · pop. 545
• Koog aan de Zaan
  3.3 mi away · pop. 11,133
• Purmerland
  3.6 mi away · pop. 360
• Ilpendam
  3.7 mi away · pop. 1,755
• Zaandijk
  3.8 mi away · pop. 8,686
• Wijdewormer
  4.3 mi away · pop. 595
• Zunderdorp
  4.4 mi away · pop. 625
• Amsterdam
  4.6 mi away · pop. 881,933
• Westzaan
  4.7 mi away · pop. 4,621

Browse all places in North 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.

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