Boomgaardshoek is a neighborhood of

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...

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. This part of

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was built at the end of 1970s and early 1980s and finished by the end of the 1980s. When they started building this area, it belonged to

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, in 1986 it became part of Rotterdam. One part of Boomgaardshoek has bird names and the other part has names of

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. Those two are separated by a bike lane which comes from south Zalmplaat to North Tussenwater.

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Neighbourhoods of Rotterdam {{SouthHolland-geo-stub