Southwest Friesland is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, located in the province of Friesland. It had a population of 84,092 in August 2017. Sneek is the municipal seat. With a total area of 841.56 km2, Súdwest-Fryslân is the largest municipality by area in the Netherlands.
Image: Waterpoort, Sneek
Image: Bolsward, het stadhuis in straatzicht RM9836 foto 13 2017 06 18 13.16
Image: De Merk (Workum)
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West Frisian, or simply Frisian, is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry. It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian languages.
Bilingual West Frisian–Dutch signs in Hindeloopen