Rietwijkeroord is a former hamlet in the Dutch province of

North Holland North Holland ( nl, Noord-Holland, ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a ...

. It was located in the current municipality of Amstelveen, and was also known as "Rijkeroord" or "Het Schiphol". Rietwijkeroord was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1854, when it was merged with Nieuwer-Amstel.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. The municipality covered the area that is now the northern half of the

Amsterdamse Bos The Amsterdamse Bos (English: ''Amsterdam Forest'') is an English park or landscape park in the municipalities of Amstelveen and Amsterdam. Although most of the park is located in Amstelveen, the owner of the park is the City of Amsterdam. The ...

, north of the A9 highway. Around 1850, it had a population of only 90 inhabitants.

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Former municipalities of North Holland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub