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Wormerland () is a municipality in the
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
North Holland North Holland (, ) is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht (province), Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevola ...
.


Population centres

The municipality of Wormerland contains the following towns, villages and hamlets: It borders the municipalities of:


Local government

The municipal council of Wormerland consists of 17 seats, which at the 2022 local elections divided as follows: * Partij voor Ouderen en Veiligheid - 5 - 28.17% - 2,066 votes * VVD - 4 - 21.06% - 1,544 votes *
GroenLinks (, ; GL) is a Green politics, green List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four Left-wing politics, left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Neth ...
- 3 - 20.73% - 1,520 votes * PvdA - 2 - 14.61% - 1,071 votes * CDA - 2 - 9.2% - 675 votes * D66 - 1 - 6.23% - 457 votes


Sport facilities

Soccer clubs: * WSV'30 (Wormer Sport Vereniging 1930) - Wormer * VV Jisp - Jisp * VV Knollendam - Oostknollendam * DZS (De Zilveren Schapen) - Neck/Wijdewormer * PSCK (Parochiële Sport Club Kalf) - Kalf (Located in Wijdewormer) * ZCFC (Zaandamse Christelijke Football club) - Zaandam (Located in Wijdewormer)


Notable people

* Tyman Arentsz. Cracht (ca.1590/1600 – 1646) painter who specialized in landscapes and history paintings * Ewald Kooiman (1938–2009) organist and professor of Romance languages * Martin Bosma (born 1964) politician and former journalist


Sport

* Klaas de Groot (1919–1994) wrestler, competed at the
1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...
* Cees Gravesteijn (born 1928) sprint canoer, competed at the
1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...
* Dick Wayboer (born 1936) a sailor, competed at the
1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq ...
* Piet de Wit (born 1946) retired cyclist and former local bicycle shop owner * Arend Bloem (born 1947) sprint canoer who competed at the
1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...
* Pieter Jan Leeuwerink (1962–2004) volleyball player, competed at the
1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...
David Harrison


Gallery

File:Nashville wormerland.jpg, Town hall of Wormerland File:Wormer 040.JPG, Wormer File:Wormer-Dorpstraat 298.jpg, Wormer-Dorpstraat 298 File:Neck, dorp in de gemeente Wormerland, Noord-Holland, Nederland (2008).jpg, Neck, village in Wormerland municipality


References


External links

*
Official website
Municipalities of North Holland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub