Almereis aplanned cityandmunicipalityin the province ofFlevoland,Netherlands, borderingLelystadandZeewolde. The municipalityof Almere compromises 6 official districts and boroughs.These are the districtsAlmere Stad(which is further split up into Almere Stad Oost, Almere Stad West and Almere Centrum),Almere BuitenandAlmere Pampus(which is currently being designed),and the boroughs ofAlmere Haven,Almere HoutandAlmere Poort. 4 of them also feature official district/borough offices.Furthermore, it also compromises of the unofficial historic district and neighborhood Oostvaardersdiep,which has an active semi-self-governing community,and the planned district ofAlmere Oosterwold.
Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands: the land on which Almere sits, the Southern Flevoland Polder,was reclaimed from theIJsselmeerin 1959-68. The first house was finished in 1976, and Almere became a municipality in 1984. It has the largest population of themunicipalitiesinFlevolandwith 196,290 citizens in 2014 and the 7th largest in theNetherlands.
