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Zoutkamp

Western Europe

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 The village's harbour was superseded in 1969 by a new port at nearby Lauwersoog following construction of the Lauwersmeer dike, though local fishing boats still carry Zoutkamp's historic ZK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.

Facts
Population
1215 1
Founding Year
1418 2
Founding Year
1418 2
Latitude
53.3375 degrees north 3
Longitude
6.3031 degrees east 3
Elevation Band
Sea Level 4
Climate Zone
Temperate 5
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
Sources
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
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3. Zoutkamp (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 53.3375, longitude 6.3031
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4. GeoNames: Zoutkamp - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 2743816
    53.33917 6.30417 P PPL NL 04 1966 1215 0 Europe/Amsterdam
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 0 m
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5. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 53.25, 6.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 53.25, 6.25
53.25 6.25 Cfb
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Wikidata: Zoutkamp
Wikidata Q2500600, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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