Beek

Beek is a city and municipality inside the southeastern Netherlands, within the province of Limburg. As of 2012, Beek has a populace of approximately 16,400, of which about eight,800 live in the city of Beek. The municipality of Beek makes a part of the location of South Limburg and lies between the town of Geleen inside the north and Maastricht inside the south, and lies furthermore southeast of interchange Kerensheide and the chemical industries of Chemelot.

It has a slightly hilly landscape with altitudes differing between 70 and 120 metres above sea level, and has small forests: Kelmonderbos between Beek and Kelmond, and Spaubekerbos near Spaubeek. The Keutelbeek flows through and has its supply in the municipality of Beek. In 1982, Spaubeek merged with Beek and the municipality got his present day size. In 2005, an archaeological website turned into discovered between Beek and Neerbeek, including the remainings of a settlement from 5,000 BC. Because of this, Beek is taken into consideration the eldest village inside the Netherlands.