- Koog aan de Zaan
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caption = The statistical district of Koog aan de Zaan in the municipality of Zaanstad.Koog aan de Zaan (coord|52|28|N|4|48|E|type:city(11770)) is a town in the Dutch province of
North Holland . It is a part of the municipality ofZaanstad , and lies about 11 km northwest ofAmsterdam .Koog aan de Zaan was a separate municipality until 1974, when the municipality of Zaanstad was created. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]
Koog aan de Zaan has a population of around 11770.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/koogaandezaan.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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