page_title: Drachten
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Drachten / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Topografische kaart van Drachten (woonplaats). Resolutie: 300 pixels/km. Kaartbeeld samengesteld uit de open geodata van de Top10NL en Top25namen (Basisregistratie Topografie, Kadaster), Creative Commons BY licentie. Gebouwvlakken uit open geodata BAG extract. Wegen uit de OpenStreetMap. Reliëfschaduw uit de Actuele Hoogtekaart AHN2. Samenstelling en kleurenschema: Jan-Willem van Aalst, met QGIS2. Zie ook de Legenda.
context_page_description: Drachten is a town in the northern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Smallingerland, Friesland. It had a population of around 45,186 in January 2017 and is the second largest town in the province of Friesland.
context_section_description: Drachten is situated in the municipality of Smallingerland in the east of the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. Leeuwarden is 35 kilometres (22 mi) to the northwest, Groningen 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast, and Heerenveen 24 kilometres (15 mi) southwest.
  It is located along the Wijde Ee waterway, which flows into the larger Prinses Margriet Kanaal. It is surrounded by many small towns; its environment consists of lowlands with forests and peat moors, and nearby lakes.
caption: 2014 map of Drachten
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