Korendijk () was a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
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
South Holland ( ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.8 million as of January 2023 and a population density of about , making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas. ...
. The municipality covered an area of of which was water.
With the municipal reorganization of the Hoeksche Waard on 1 January 1984, the municipality of Korendijk was formed out of the former municipalities of
Goudswaard,
Nieuw-Beijerland,
Piershil (location of town hall),
Zuid-Beijerland, and the island
Tiengemeten. In addition to these villages, it also had the population centres
Nieuwendijk and
Zuidzijde. On 1 January 2019, it merged into the municipality of
Hoeksche Waard.
The municipality of Korendijk was bordered on the southside by the
Haringvliet
The Haringvliet is a large inlet of the North Sea, in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. It is an important estuary of the Rhine-Meuse delta.
Near Numansdorp, the Hollands Diep splits into the Haringvliet and the Volkerak est ...
estuary, on the westside by the
Spui River, and by the municipalities
Oud-Beijerland and
Cromstrijen to the north and east.
Topography
''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Korendijk, June 2015''
See also
References
External links
Official website
Hoeksche Waard
Former municipalities of South Holland
Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2019
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