page_title: Leek, Netherlands
hierarchical_section_title: Leek, Netherlands
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Topografische gemeentekaart. Resolutie: 400 pixels/km. Kaartbeeld samengesteld uit de open geodata van de Top10NL en Top25namen (Kadaster), Creative Commons-BY licentie. Gebouwvlakken uit open geodata BAG extract. Wegen uit de OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap community. Reliëfschaduw uit de Actuele Hoogtekaart AHN2. Samenstelling en kleurenschema: Jan-Willem van Aalst, met QGIS. Zie ook de Legenda.
context_page_description: Leek is a village and former municipality in Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality, which bordered the Drenthe and Friesland provinces, was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019.
  The village of Leek is approximately 20 km west of Groningen on the A7 highway.
  The village grew around a fortification that was constructed here during the Eighty Years' War with Spain. The name 'Leek' was derived from a brook, the "Leke". The town is sometimes also called "De Leek". In Dutch, the people from Leek are called "Leeksters".
  Every year around Pentecost there is a fair, drawing thousands of people from the area.
  Near the village is a shallow lake, called "Het Leekstermeer", with recreational facilities, but the lake is in another municipality and in another province.
context_section_description: Leek ([leːk] (listen); Gronings: De Laik) is a village and former municipality in Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality, which bordered the Drenthe and Friesland provinces, was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019.
  The village of Leek is approximately 20 km west of Groningen (city) on the A7 (E22) highway.
  The village grew around a fortification that was constructed here during the Eighty Years' War with Spain. The name 'Leek' was derived from a brook, the "Leke". The town is sometimes also called "De Leek". In Dutch, the people from Leek are called "Leeksters".
  Every year around Pentecost there is a fair (Pinkstermarkt), drawing thousands of people from the area. 
  Near the village is a shallow lake, called "Het Leekstermeer" (also called Zulthemeer), with recreational facilities, but the lake is in another municipality and in another province.
caption: Duch topographic map of the municipality of Leek, Groningen, as per June 2015
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