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Overijssel Description
Provincial capital: Zwolle

Area: 342,000 hectares/844,740 acres

(land area 333,890 hectares/824,708

acres)

The province of Overijssel extends across the Netherlands from the IJsselmeer in the northwest to the German frontier in the southeast, bounded on the north by Drenthe and on the south by Gelderland. It offers an attractive variety of landscape - river plains, moorland, ridges of hills, arable land and expanses of sandy soil. In western Overijssel, on the IJsselmeer, are a number of nature reserves and natural watercourses. In the central region of Salland are three, and in Twente to the east two, morainic ridges formed in the second ice age, rising to heights of up to 90m/300ft. Overijssel means "over the
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Hobbies & Activities category: Agricultural area or museum;  Industrial attraction, factory museum;  Region with significant interests
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