- Assendelft
:"For the Dutch sprinter, see
Pascal van Assendelft ."Dutch town locator maps
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caption = The village (dark green) and statistical district (light green) of Assendelft in the municipality of Zaanstad.Assendelft (coord|52|28|N|4|45|E|type:city(7840)) is a town in the Dutch province of
North Holland . It is a part of the municipality ofZaanstad , and lies about 13 km northeast ofHaarlem .Assendelft was a separate municipality until 1974, when the municipality of Zaanstad was formed. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]
The statistical district "Assendelft", which covers the village and the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 13,720.Statistics Netherlands (CBS), "Statline: Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2003-2005" [http://statline.cbs.nl/] . As of
January 1 ,2005 .]References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/nh/assendelft.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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