Fivelingo or Fivelgo is a historical region and one of the Ommelanden (

shire Shire () is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries. It is generally synonymous with county (such as Cheshire and Worcestershire). British counties are among the oldes ...

s) in the province of

Groningen Groningen ( , ; ; or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of ...

. It was located southeast of Hunsingo, northeast of Gorecht, and northwest of Oldambt, and southwest of the

Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea ( ; ; or ; ; ; ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. It lies between the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the range of low-lying Frisian Islands, forming a shallow body of water with tida ...

. Fivelingo was named after the historical river

Fivel The Fivel was a historical river in the province of Groningen (province), Groningen in the Netherlands. It received its water from peat bogs around Kolham and Slochteren, flowed past , and , and meandered north of Winneweer. The Fivel debouched i ...

.Bernardus Mourik,
Staatkundige historie van Holland
', 1768, vol. 25, pp. 7–9. Retrieved on 2 June 2014.

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Regions of Groningen (province) {{Groningen-geo-stub