Zoutkamp is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland in the Dutch province of Groningen, with a 2021 population of 1,195 across 1.23 square kilometres. It began as a military fortification built in 1576 during the Dutch Revolt before developing into a fishing community in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The village's harbour was superseded in 1969 by a new port at nearby Lauwersoog following construction of the Lauwersmeer dike, though local fishing boats still carry Zoutkamp's historic ZK registration code, and the old harbour now serves mainly recreational boating.
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1. GeoNames: Zoutkamp
GeoNames geonameid 2743816 (Zoutkamp), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Zoutkamp (Wikipedia)
Source text, founding-year-range-start: 1418
Zoutkamp was first mentioned in documents in 1418 as Soltcampum.
Source text, founding-year-range-end: 1418
Zoutkamp was first mentioned in documents in 1418 as Soltcampum.
Source text, founding-year: 1418
Zoutkamp was first mentioned in documents in 1418 as Soltcampum.
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. Zoutkamp (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 53.3375, longitude 6.3031
Wikidata: Zoutkamp
Wikidata Q2500600, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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