Diemen
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| Country | Netherlands | ||
| Province | North Holland | ||
| Area (2006) | |||
| - Total | 14.03 km² (5.4 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 11.99 km² (4.6 sq mi) | ||
| - Water | 2.05 km² (0.8 sq mi) | ||
| Population (1 January 2007) | |||
| - Total | 23,866 | ||
| - Density | 1,990/km² (5,154.1/sq mi) | ||
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| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Website: www.diemen.nl | |||
Diemen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands with a population of around 24,000. Diemen is located in the province of North Holland directly to the east of Amsterdam within the capital's metropolitan area.
The town is split into three: Diemen Noord, which contains many of the town's older buildings and is quite a middle class area, Diemen Centrum, mostly a more modern working and middle class town separated from Nord by the motorway and the largest of the three Diemen Zuid, located south of a canal from centrum it is often grouped together with the Bijlmer.
Diemen Zuid contains a large part of INHOLLAND University, one of the Amsterdam area's Hogeschools along with one of the stations of the Amsterdam metro.
[edit] Local government
The municipal council of Diemen consists of 19 seats, which are divided as follows:
- PvdA - 5 seats
- VVD - 4 seats
- SP - 3 seats
- Leefbaar Diemen - 2 seats
- CDA - 2 seats
- GroenLinks - 2 seats
- Democraten Diemen - 1 seat
- D66 - 1 seat
The complete result can be viewed at the official elections page (Dutch only).
[edit] References
- Statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant
[edit] External links
- Diemen (Dutch)
- Diemen (English)
- Businesses in Diemen (Dutch)
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