Noordoostpolder

Template:Expand Dutch Template:Infobox settlement Noordoostpolder (Template:IPA; Template:Langx) is a polder and municipality in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Formerly, it was also called Urker Land. Emmeloord is the administrative center, located in the heart of the Noordoostpolder.

For history, see Zuiderzee Works.

Population centres

The former island of Schokland is now a museum.

The town and former island of Urk, in the southwest, now surrounded by the Noordoostpolder, is a separate municipality.

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, June 2015

Template:Update-section There are no railway stations in the Noordoostpolder, but the nearest stations are in Kampen, Steenwijk and Lelystad. From 9 December 2012, with the opening of the Hanzelijn, Dronten and Kampen Zuid, will be even closer.

UNESCO World Heritage sites located in/near the Noordoostpolder:

Schokland and Surroundings (municipality Noordoostpolder)
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station), Lemmer (mun. Lemsterland)

David T. Runia (born 1951 in Noordoostpolder) a Dutch-Australian scholar and educational administrator
Aucke van der Werff (born 1953 in Schettens) politician, current mayor of Noordoostpolder
Rien van der Velde (born 1957 in Nagele) a Dutch politician
Stef Blok (born 1964 in Emmeloord) accountant and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Marriët Schuurman (born 1969 in Creil) incumbent Dutch Human Rights Ambassador
Ernst Meisner (born 1982 in Noordoostpolder) a Dutch dancer and choreographer