Baarle-Nassau

Baarle-Nassau
Municipality
Baarle-Nassau town hall
Flag Coat of arms
Location in North Brabant
Coordinates: 51°27′N 4°56′E / 51.450°N 4.933°E / 51.450; 4.933Coordinates: 51°27′N 4°56′E / 51.450°N 4.933°E / 51.450; 4.933
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Brabant
Government
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Marjon de Hoon-Veelenturf (CDA)
Area
• Total	76.21 km2 (29.42 sq mi)
• Land	76.16 km2 (29.41 sq mi)
• Water	0.05 km2 (0.02 sq mi)
Elevation	28 m (92 ft)
Population (May 2014)
• Total	6,626
• Density	87/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postcode	5110–5114
Area code	013
Website	www.baarle-nassau.nl

Baarle-Nassau ( pronunciation ) is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, located in North Brabant province. It had a population of 6,626 in 2014.

Topographic map of the municipality of Baarle-Nassau, June 2015.

It is closely linked, with complicated borders, to the Belgian exclaves of Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate pieces of land. Apart from the main piece (called Zondereigen) located north of the Belgian town of Merksplas, there are 22 Belgian exclaves in the Netherlands and three other pieces on the Dutch-Belgian border. There are also six Dutch exclaves located within the largest Belgian exclave, one within the second-largest, and an eighth within Zondereigen. The smallest Belgian parcel, H22, measures 2,632 square metres (about 28,330 square feet).

The border's complexity results from a number of equally complex medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking, predominantly agricultural or built environments became constituents of Brabant, other parts devolved to Breda. These distributions were ratified and clarified as a part of the borderline settlements arrived at during the Treaty of Maastricht in 1843.