Wijdemeren

Template:Infobox settlement Wijdemeren (Template:IPA) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, on the western border of the Gooi region.

Wijdemeren contains many lakes, including Spiegelplas and Ankeveense Plassen in the north(east) and Loosdrechtse Plassen in the (south)west.

Wijdemeren was established as a merger of 's-Graveland, Loosdrecht, and Nederhorst den Berg on 1 January 2002. The former municipality of Loosdrecht belonged to the province of Utrecht.

Population centres

The municipality of Wijdemeren includes the following small towns and villages: Template:Columns-list

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Map of the municipality of Wijdemeren, 2013.

Parties	Seats<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2014-18	Seats<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2018-22	Seats<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2022-26
De Lokale Partij	-	4	8
CDA	7	4	3
Dorpsbelangen	4	4	2
VVD	3	3	2
D66	3	2	1
PvdA-GL	2	2	2
CU	-	-	1
Total	19	19	19

Tjalling Koopmans, 1967

Jan Jacob Spöhler (1811–1866) painter
Hendrik Jan Schimmel (1823–1906) poet and novelist
Barend Klaas Kuiper (1877–1961) history professor and author, wrote on Dutch Calvinist church history
Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) Dutch American mathematician and economist, joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
Feike Sijbesma (born 1959) CEO of DSM
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (born 1973) politician and diplomat