Laaxum
Laaxum (West Frisian: Laaksum) is a hamlet in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It is located south of Warns on the edge of the IJsselmeer in the west of the Gaasterland region. The place is addressed both as a village and as a hamlet. A hamlet because it is formally part of Warns and a village because it is a fishing village. The place is or has been described as the smallest fishing village in Europe. It has only a limited number of houses and a farm. For a long time, it was only a hamlet of the village of Scharl. That only started to change in the 1900s due to the growth of the fishing industry and it was seen as a village when it got its own port in 1912 and the fishing industry was at its peak.
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Súdwest-Fryslân
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| Latitude | Longitude |
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| N 52.85 ° | E 5.4 ° |
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Laaxum
8721 EW Súdwest-Fryslân
Frisia, Netherlands
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