Baarle-Nassau | |
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Coordinates: 51°27′N 4°56′E / 51.450°N 4.933°E | |
Country | Netherlands; however, the Dutch municipality of Baarle-Nassau totally surrounds numerous small exclaves of Belgium. |
Province | North Brabant |
Government | |
• Body | Municipal council |
• Mayor | Marjon de Hoon-Veelenturf (CDA) |
Area | |
• Total | 76.29 km2 (29.46 sq mi) |
• Land | 76.14 km2 (29.40 sq mi) |
• Water | 0.15 km2 (0.06 sq mi) |
Elevation | 28 m (92 ft) |
Population (January 2021)[4] | |
• Total | 6,899 |
• Density | 91/km2 (240/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postcode | 5110–5114 |
Area code | 013 |
Website | www |
Baarle-Nassau (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌbaːrlə ˈnɑsʌu] ) is a municipality and town in the southern Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. It had a population of 6,899 in 2019[update]. The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands: it encloses 22 small exclaves of the Belgian town Baarle-Hertog, of which the two largest contain seven counter-enclaves of Baarle-Nassau, and the main body of Belgium contains another.