Hardinxveld-Giessendam

(population: 17,828 in 2004) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 19.35 km² (7.47 mile²) of which 2.44 km² (0.94 mile²) is water.The municipality of Hardinxveld-Giessendam consists of the two population centres Giessendam/Neder-Hardinxveld and Boven-Hardinxveld. Until they were merged together in 1957, Giessendam and Hardinxveld were two municipalities, consisting of only a few streets and dykes and only a few thousand inhabitants.
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