Bergambacht
Appearance
Bergambacht (Template:IPA Template:IPA) is a village and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Since 2015 it has been a part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard.
The former municipality covered an area of Template:Convert of which Template:Convert was water, and had a population of Template:Dutch municipality population as of Template:YEAR. The former municipality included the communities of Ammerstol and Berkenwoude, which were separate municipalities until they merged with Bergambacht in 1985.
Topography
[edit]Topographic map of the former municipality of Bergambacht, 2013.
Notable people
[edit]- Wim Kok (1938-2018), trade union leader and politician; Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1994-2002
- Meindert Leerling (1936–2021), journalist and politician