Houthem (Netherlands)

Houthem (Netherlands)

Houthem (coord|50|52|N|5|48|E|type:city(1026)) is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, and lies about 8 km east of Maastricht.

Houthem was a separate municipality until 1940, when it was merged with Valkenburg. [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, Houthem had 1026 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.38 km², and contained 401 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.]

References

External links

* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/li/houthem.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]


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