Urk

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Urk

Total population

20,220

Coordinates52.67°, 5.60°

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

Overview

Urk is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the center-north of the Netherlands with a population of 22,173 as of 2025. It is surrounded by the Noordoostpolder on land and is on the coast of the IJsselmeer. Urk was formerly an island in the Almere, an inland sea that would become part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. The building of a dike from Lemmer in 1939 ended Urk's status as an island and connected it to the Dutch mainland.

Geography

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