- Geervliet
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caption = The town centre (darkgreen) and the statistical district (lightgreen) of Geervliet in the municipality of Bernisse.Geervliet (coord|51|52|N|4|16|E|type:city(1670)) is a town in the Dutch province of
South Holland . It is a part of the municipality ofBernisse , and lies about 6 km northwest ofSpijkenisse on the Brielse Maas. It received city rights in1381 .Geervliet was a separate municipality until 1980, when it became part of Bernisse. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]
In 2001, the town of Geervliet had 1670 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.34 km², and contained 687 residences.Statistics Netherlands (CBS), "Bevolkingskernen in Nederland 2001" [http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/milieu-natuur-ruimte/ruimte/publicaties/cartografie-geografie/geografische-data/2001-bevolkingskernen-in-nederland.htm] . Statistics are for the continuous built-up area.] The wider statistical district of Geervliet, which covers the entire "
Polder Geervliet" has a population of around 2290.Statistics Netherlands (CBS), "Gemeente Op Maat 2004: Bernisse" [http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/nederland-regionaal/nederland-regionaal/publicaties/gemeente-op-maat/2004/alfabet/b/2004-bernisse.htm] .] This includes the 290 inhabitants of the village Simonshaven.References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/zh/geervliet.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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