Pekela

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Pekela (Template:IPA) is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was created in 1990 when Oude Pekela and Nieuwe Pekela were merged.

Geography

*Map of the municipality of Pekela, June 2015*

Pekela is located at Template:Coords in the southeast of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is bordered by the municipalities of: Template:Columns-list The river Pekel Aa crosses the municipality from north to south. The main population centres in the municipality are the villages of Template:Ill (Upper Pekela), Nieuwe Pekela (New Pekela), and Oude Pekela (Old Pekela). Part of the village of Alteveer and the hamlets of Bronsveen and Template:Ill are also in the municipality.

The municipality has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is land and Template:Convert is water.<ref name="areadataref"/>

Governance

The mayor (burgemeester) of Pekela is Jaap Kuin of the Labour Party.<ref name="mayor_now"/> The municipal council consists of 15 seats, which are divided as follows:

Municipality seats
Party	2006	2010	2014	2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
SP	3	3	4	4	3
Samen Voor Pekela	-	4	3	3	3
PvdA	7	3	2	2	2
CDA	2	1	2	2	2
GroenLinks	1	2	1	1	2
PVV	-	-	-	2	2
VVD	1	1	2	1	1
ChristenUnie	1	-	1	-	-
VCP	-	-	1	-	-
Total	15	15	15	15	15

Demographics

In Template:Dutch municipality population, the municipality had a total population of Template:Dutch municipality population, a population density of Template:Convert.<ref name="populationdataref"/>

Notable people

Jan de Boer (1859 in Nieuwe Pekela – 1941) a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Fré Meis (1921–1992), communist politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff (born 1952 in Nieuwe Pekela) a Dutch farmer and politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Gerard Wiekens (born 1973 in Oude Pekela) a Dutch former footballer with 518 club caps who played for SC Veendam and Manchester City F.C.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>