Slotervaart was a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
of
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
,
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 ...
between 1990 and 2010. It had a population of 48,540 inhabitants in 2008 and an area of 11.14 km
2. As of 2010, Slotervaart is part of the newly formed ''stadsdeel''
Nieuw-West
Amsterdam Nieuw-West () is a borough (Dutch: ''stadsdeel'') comprising the westernmost neighbourhoods of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was created in 2010 after a merger of the former boroughs Osdorp, Geuzenveld-Slotermeer and Slotervaar ...
.
Areas that were part of the borough included the smaller
neighborhood of Slotervaart,
Overtoomse Veld
Overtoomse Veld is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is named for the '' Overtoomse Sluis'', which was an old portage point dating from the 14th century on a major cargo route to and from Amsterdam at the junction of two waterschap are ...
, and
Nieuw Sloten.
External links
Schwule links, Heteros rechts- German news article about the Sloterpark
References
Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Former boroughs of Amsterdam
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