Cromstrijen (; ''Cromstrien'' in local dialect) was a municipality on the Hoeksche Waard Island in the western

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. It was formed on 1 January 1984, when the municipalities on the Hoeksche Waard were merged into larger municipalities. On 1 January 2019 it was merged with the municipalities of Binnenmaas, Korendijk, Oud-Beijerland, and Strijen to form the municipality of Hoeksche Waard. The municipality of Cromstrijen consists of the communities Klaaswaal and Numansdorp (townhall). Its population was in .

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''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Cromstrijen, June 2015''

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Hoeksche Waard Former municipalities of South Holland Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2019 {{SouthHolland-geo-stub

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