Amstelveen
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 52°18′N 4°52′E / 52.3, 4.87
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Holland
Area (2006)
- Total	44.05 km² (17 sq mi)
- Land	41.56 km² (16 sq mi)
- Water	2.49 km² (1 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
- Total	78,994
- Density	1,901/km² (4,923.6/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Website: www.amstelveen.nl

Amstelveen (help·info) is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. Until 1964, the municipality of Amstelveen was called Nieuwer-Amstel. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Dutch_Municipality_Amstelveen_2006. ... Capital Haarlem Queens Commissioner Mr. ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Population density per square kilometre by country, 2006 Population density map of the world in 1994. ... Statistics Netherlands is a Dutch governmental institution that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Although DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... Capital Haarlem Queens Commissioner Mr. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ...

Trivia

• Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende started his political career as member of the Amstelveen city council.
• Amstelveen has a light rail and tram connection with Amsterdam.
• The COBRA Museum is located in Amstelveen.
• The headquarters of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is located in Amstelveen.
• There is a large group of English speaking ex-pats living in Amstelveen.
• The International School Amsterdam is located in Amstelveen.
• as a result of the vicinity of Schiphol, there are lots of Japanese companies in Amstelveen. This one of the reasons the Nihon Ki-in opened its European Go and Cultural Centre in Amstelveen.
• Actress Famke Janssen was born here. Notable for her roles in the James Bond movie, Goldeneye and the X-Men Movie Series.
• The Thijssepark or in full the Dr Jac. P. Thijssepark was the first heempark in The Netherlands. Designed by landscape architect C.P.Broerse (1902-1995) following the ideas of the great Dutch naturalist and conservationist J.P. Thijsse, it was developed between 1940 and 1972 and is 5 hectares in area. It is just south of the Amsterdamse Bos and is accessible from Amsterdamse Weg. It is one of a network of sixten heemparks or heemgroen in Amstelveen.
• The city was chosen as an unlikely host of a match in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, for which the Netherlands had not even qualified. South Africa played Kenya in the match.

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Secondary Education

• The Hermann Wesselink College: offers Bilingual education, VWO (Gymnasium and Atheneum), HAVO and VMBO-T.
• The Keizer Karel College: offers VWO (Gymnasium and Atheneum) and HAVO.
• The Amstelveen College: offers VWO (Gymnasium and Atheneum), HAVO and VMBO-T.
• The Panta Rhei: offers VMBO and LWOO.

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Population centres

The municipality of Amstelveen consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Amstelveen, Bovenkerk, Nes aan de Amstel, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel (partly). Ouderkerk aan de Amstel () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. ...

Local government

The municipal council of Amstelveen consists of 35 seats, which are divided as follows:

• VVD - 9 seats
• PvdA - 8 seats
• GroenLinks - 5 seats
• Burger Belangen - 5 seats
• CDA - 4 seats
• D66 - 2 seats
• Christen Unie - 1 seat
• OCA/VSP - 1 seat

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Twin Towns

• Woking in United Kingdom
• Villa El Salvador in Peru
• Tempelhof in Germany
• Óbuda-Békásmegyer in Hungary

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References

• Statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant.

External links

• A map of the municipality Amstelveen
• http://www.amstelveenweb.com/
• Official website Amstelveen
• Part of Amstelveen in the near future
• Website of Scouts group in Amstelveen

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