De
Bilt ( ) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands
, in the province of Utrecht
.
Population centres
The
municipality of De Bilt consists of the following cities, towns,
villages and/or districts: Bilthoven
, De Bilt, Groenekan
, Hollandsche Rading
, Maartensdijk
, Westbroek
. The communities of Maartensdijk and
Westbroek are orthodox Christian communities in which the
SGP gathers many votes. A large
part of the people in these communities are farmers.
The town De Bilt
De Bilt (population : 14,800) is the seat of the headquarters of
the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute,
KNMI.
It is the
ancestral home and namesake for the prominent United States
Vanderbilt
family.
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