Friesland
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Description
Provincial capital: Leeuwarden
Area: 534,000 hectares/1,460,000 acres
(land area 336,000 hectares/840,000
acres)
The province of Friesland in the northeastern Netherlands is ringed on the west and north by the Waddeneilanden or West Frisian Islands, which are continued to the east by the (German) East Frisian Islands. On the southwest, west and northwest Friesland extends to the IJsselmeer and the Waddenzee, and on the south and southeast it is bounded by the Wouden, an area of sandy ridges which forms a transition to the ground moraines of the Drenthe plateau. In the east it merges into the marshland of Groningen.
The old Greater Frisian kingdom, Frisia Magna, extended at the beginning of the
Area: 534,000 hectares/1,460,000 acres
(land area 336,000 hectares/840,000
acres)
The province of Friesland in the northeastern Netherlands is ringed on the west and north by the Waddeneilanden or West Frisian Islands, which are continued to the east by the (German) East Frisian Islands. On the southwest, west and northwest Friesland extends to the IJsselmeer and the Waddenzee, and on the south and southeast it is bounded by the Wouden, an area of sandy ridges which forms a transition to the ground moraines of the Drenthe plateau. In the east it merges into the marshland of Groningen.
The old Greater Frisian kingdom, Frisia Magna, extended at the beginning of the
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