Almere

About Almere

Almere is a planned city and municipality in Flevoland, Netherlands, across the IJmeer from Amsterdam.

Bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde, the municipality of Almere comprises six boroughs: Almere Stad (which is further split up into Almere Stad Oost, Almere Stad West and Almere Centrum), Almere Buiten, Almere Pampus (which is currently being designed), Almere Haven, Almere Hout and Almere Poort. Four of them feature official district or borough offices. Furthermore, the city also comprises the unofficial historic district and neighbourhood Oostvaardersdiep. Almere is part of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.

Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands. The land on which the city was built, the Southern Flevoland polder, was reclaimed from the IJsselmeer from 1959 to 1968. The first house was constructed in 1976, and Almere became a municipality eight years later. The city is the eighth largest in the Netherlands, and it is the largest settlement in Flevoland by population with 229,574 inhabitants. In October 2007, the city council of Almere had made agreements with the government to expand the city to 350,000 inhabitants by 2030.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.