Brunssum

town and municipality in Limburg, the Netherlands

Organization municipality_of_the_netherlands Q9803

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Instance of: municipality of the Netherlands, town, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands^[3]^[4]
Country: Netherlands^[2]
Official website: www.brunssum.nl^[17]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 50.950°, 5.967°
Archives at: Rijckheyt, Historisch Centrum Limburg^[14]^[15]
Area: +17.29
Coat of arms: coat of arms of Brunssum^[11]
Contains settlement: Treebeek, Bouwberg, De Kling^[34]^[35]^[36]
Demonym: Brunssumer^[45]
Different from: Wikidata item
Elevation above sea level: +81
Flag: flag of Brunssum^[9]
List of monuments: Lijst van rijksmonumenten in Brunssum, list of war memorials in Brunssum^[37]^[38]
Local dialing code: 045^[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Limburg^[1]
Located in/on physical feature: South Limburg^[16]
Number of households: 14k (14k–14k, n=6)^[39]^[40]^[41]^[42]^[43]^[44]
Office held by head of government: mayor of Brunssum^[32]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Govdirectory
Phone number: +31455278555^[33]
Population: 28k (893–30k, n=25)^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31]
Postal code: 6440–6446^[12]
Shares border with: Onderbanken, Landgraaf, Schinnen, Heerlen^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]
Twinned administrative body: Alsdorf^[10]

🏷️ Also known as

en Brunssum ar برونسوم de Treebeek ja ブルンスム ko 브룬씀 nl Brunssum (gemeente) nl Brunssum (plaats) nl gemeente Brunssum nl Gemeente Brunssum ru Брюнсюм zh 布林瑟姆

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VIAF cluster ID: 247867537
Library of Congress authority ID: nb2012003527
GND ID: 7580702-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Brunssummerheideoverview.jpg ↗
Amsterdam code: 10533
ArchINFORM location ID: 48500
BAG residence ID: 2849
British Museum place ID: x37419
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID: brunssum
CBS municipality code: 0899
Data Commons ID: wikidataId/Q9803
De Agostini ID: Brunssum

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Email address: mailto:gemeente@brunssum.nl
Facebook username: gemBrunssum
FactGrid item ID: Hohtürli Pass
Freebase ID: /m/0vj1y
GADM ID: NLD.7.6_1
GeoNames ID: 2758173, 2758174
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID: 1047683
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: brunssum
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0507321
INaturalist place ID: 17195
Instagram username: gemeentebrunssum
KvK company ID: 14129999
MusicBrainz area ID: d3e551bd-3ee4-41bb-b9b1-4f4b67e5ea3d
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID: geo/13f64da0-8e59-40f8-991d-c6130b9a0da3
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987008983573905171
OpenCorporates ID: nl/14129999
OpenStreetMap node ID: 3124182601
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 406068, 149235
OpenWeatherMap city ID: 2758174
Quora topic ID: Brunssum
RKD thesaurus ID: 97391, 3936
TOOI identifier: gemeente/gm0899
Topic's main category: Category:Brunssum
UN/LOCODE: NLBRN
WOEID: 728094
Who's on First ID: 101839207
WikiKids ID: Brunssum
WordLift URL: data.wordlift.io
X (Twitter) username: Gem_Brunssum
YouTube channel ID: UCSt_9xnT3V3fQYoYiLDdcoA
YouTube handle: gemeentebrunssum

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People born here 6

Ferenc Kocsur, Patrick Dybiona, Eugène Gerards, Jan Dietz, Nadine Hanssen, Toni Willé

Contained subdivisions 4

Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, Parkstad Limburg, Brunssummerheide, Rumpen

Shares border with 4

Heerlen, Landgraaf, Schinnen, Onderbanken

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Heerlen, Landgraaf, Schinnen, Onderbanken

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town, municipality of the Netherlands

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Pussycat, Deinonychus

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Brunssum

Country 1

Netherlands

FactGrid item ID 1

Hohtürli Pass

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Limburg

Located in this place 1

Parelloop

Located in/on physical feature 1

South Limburg

Named after 1

Brunssummerheide

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

WikiProject Govdirectory

People who died here 1

Martin van der Borgh

Topic's main category 1

Category:Brunssum

Twinned administrative body 1

Alsdorf

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Category:People from Brunssum

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Category:Brunssum

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Limburg

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SV Limburgia

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Alsdorf

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Petr Pavel

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Things named for Brunssum include Brunssummerheide^[46], a Special Area of Conservation^[47], in Netherlands^[48], founded in 2013^[49].

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Entities named for Brunssum include Brunssummerheide^[46], a Special Area of Conservation^[47], in Netherlands^[48], founded in 2013^[49].

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