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Location municipality Goes Location of Goes, from Dutch wikipedia Created by User:Mtcv, vrij te gebruiken = freely usable. ...

Country Netherlands
Province Zeeland
Area
- Land
- Water
102.04 km²
92.84 km²
9.20 km²
Population (2005)
- Density
36,792
396/km²

Goes is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands, in Zuid-Beveland. The modern day Netherlands are divided into twelve provinces (provincies in Dutch), listed below with their capital city: Map of the Netherlands, with provinces and capital cities See also the ranked list of Dutch provinces Structure A Dutch province represents the administrative layer in between the national government and the... For the U.S. towns of the same name see Zeeland, Michigan and Zeeland, North Dakota respectively. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... The Scheldt delta, including Zuid-Beveland (2) Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. ...


Population centers

  • Goes
  • 's-Heer Arendskerke
  • 's-Heer Hendrikskinderen
  • Kattendijke
  • Kloetinge
  • Oud-Sabbinge
  • Wilhelminadorp
  • Wolphaartsdijk

The city of Goes

Goes received city rights in 1405. City rights are a medieval phenomenon in the history of the Low Countries. ... Events Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies Erection of Bath Abbey (-- 1499) Publication of Bellifortis by Konrad Kyeser (book on military technology) Births October 18 - Pope Pius II Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, Albanias national hero Deaths February 14 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Mongol monarch...


Railway station: Goes. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...


See also: Roel Felius Guus Mulders Roel Felius was born in Goes, Zeeland in the Netherlands on October 25, 1988 and still lives there. ... Guus Mulders, born Gustav Adolf Mulders is a Dutch poet and philosopher, currently living in Goes. ...


External links

  • Official website (http://www.goes.nl)
  • Map (http://www.plattegronden.nl/gemeentegoes/)

Goes is also the name of a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, in France. The following is a list of the 547 communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departement in France. ... Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( Gascon: Pirenèus-Atlantics; Basque: Pirinio-Atlantiarrak or Pirinio-Atlantikoak) is a département in the southwest of France which takes its name from the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ...


GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) is a NASA/NOAA earth observation programme. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program is a key element in United States National Weather Service (NWS) operations. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (established 1958) is the government agency responsible for the United States of Americas space program and long-term general aerospace research. ... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. ...



Province Zeeland

Borsele - Goes - Hulst - Kapelle - Middelburg - Noord-Beveland - Reimerswaal - Schouwen-Duiveland - Sluis - Terneuzen - Tholen - Veere - Vlissingen For the U.S. towns of the same name see Zeeland, Michigan and Zeeland, North Dakota respectively. ... Flag of Zeeland (from Dutch Wikipedia) File links The following pages link to this file: Terneuzen Middelburg, Netherlands Borsele Goes Hulst Kapelle Noord-Beveland Reimerswaal Schouwen-Duiveland Tholen Veere Sluis Flushing, Netherlands Template:Province Zeeland Categories: Flag images ... Borsele is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid_Beveland. ... Hulst is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands in the east of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. ... Kapelle is a municipality and a town in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland Population centers Biezelinge Kapelle Schore Wemeldinge Transportation Railway station: Kapelle-Biezelinge. ... This is about the city in the Netherlands. ... Noord-Beveland is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula. ... Reimerswaal is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland. ... Schouwen-Duiveland is a municipality and an island in the southwestern Netherlands. ... Sluis is a municipality and a town in the southwestern Netherlands in the west of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. ... Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. ... Tholen is a municipality and a city in the southwest of the Netherlands. ... Veere is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands, on Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. ... Flushing (Dutch Vlissingen) is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. ...

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Goes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (64 words)
Goes is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands, in Zuid-Beveland.
Goes is also the name of a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, in France.
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) is a NASA/NOAA earth observation programme.
GOES 4, 5, 6, G, 7 (646 words)
GOES E was launched in May 1981, and GOES F was launched in April 1983.
GOES H was successfully launched on a Delta booster in February 1987, and remained operational until July 1995.
Using GOES imagery, meteorologists were able to measure the frame-to-frame movement of selected clouds at different altitudes and to obtain their wind direction and speed in order to better understand atmospheric circulation patterns.
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