A. Bergen Beach
The neighborhood is named for Hans Hansen Bergen, an early Norwegian settler of New Netherland. Hans was an early tobacco plantation owner, and married the dutch Sarah Rapalje. Their descendants has prominently featured the history of Brooklyn.
What is now Bergen Beach was an island off the coast of Canarsie that was connected to the mainland in the early 1900s using landfill.
B. Bergen Street
C. Bergen County
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of 2014, Bergen County's Census-estimated population was 933,572. Located in the northeastern corner of New Jersey and its Gateway Region, Bergen County is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area and is situated directly across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan.
Bergen County's population resides among 70 municipalities – but no large cities – as its most populous place, with 43,010 residents at the time of the 2010 Census, is Hackensack, also its county seat. In 2010, Mahwah covered the largest total area of any municipality, at 26.19 square miles (67.8 km2).
Bergen County is one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, with a median household income of $81,708 per the 2010 Census, increasing to an estimated $84,677 in 2014. The county hosts an extensive park system totaling nearly 9,000 acres (3,600 ha).
The origin of the name of Bergen County is a matter of debate. It is believed that the county is named for one of the earliest settlements, Bergen, in modern-day Hudson County. However, the origin of the township's name is debated. Several sources attribute the name to Bergen, Norway, while others attribute it to Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. Still others attribute it to the Dutch word meaning "hill" or "place of safety". Some sources say that the name is derived from one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam (now New York City), Hans Hansen Bergen, a native of Norway, who arrived in New Netherland in 1633.
D. Bergen Place
This little place is located in the heart of the business district on the triangular site between Leary Avenue, 22nd Avenue NW, and Market Street. The place got its name from the sist city, Bergen in Norway.
The mural below was dedicated on October 25th, 1995 by Their Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway.
E. Bergen
Bergen is a city and municipality on the Bergen Peninsula on the west coast of Norway. The city was established before 1070 AD.
As of 2014 the municipal population was 279,000 making it, after Oslo, the second-most populous city in Norway. (The Greater Bergen Region population is 414,300.)
The area covered by the municipality is 465 square kilometres (180 sq mi), and it consists of eight boroughs. The remains of the quays, Bryggen, is a World Heritage Site.
Bergen is an international centre for aquaculture, shipping, offshore petroleum industry and subsea technology, and a national centre for higher education, tourism and finance. Natives speak a distinctive dialect of Norwegian known as Bergensk. The city has an airport, a light rail system, the Western terminal of the Bergen Line, and Bergen Port—the busiest in Norway; the sea lanes start thru Byfjorden. Bergen is known as the city of the Seven Mountains.
F. Bergen
Bergen is a municipality and a town. Its North Sea beaches make it a popular destination for tourists. In 2001, the municipality was formed from a merger of the former municipalities of Egmond, Schoorl, and the smaller community of Bergen proper that had existed since 1811.
Since about 1900, Bergen has been the home of many painters, writers and architects. Some of the work of this "Bergen School" is on exhibit at Museum Kranenburgh. The neighbourhood of Park Meerwijk, constructed in 1915, is made up entirely of villas in Amsterdam School style. There are regular art fairs in Bergen, as well as an annual music festival (the Holland Music Sessions in August) and arts festival (the Kunsttiendaagse in October).
North of the town of Bergen are the Schoorlse Duinen, a nature area with the highest and widest dunes of the country, which reach about 59m (195 ft) above sealevel, and are more than 5 km (3.1 mi) wide in some places.
Other points of interest in the municipality include the aquarium in the seaside village of Bergen aan Zee, the Auto Union Museum in Bergen with a collection of classic cars, and the historical museums Het Sterkenhuis (Bergen) and Museum van Egmond (Egmond aan Zee).
The town of Bergen is home to the European School, Bergen.
G. Bergen
Bergen is a town in the north of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath. Administratively it acts as a municipal borough divided into 12 subordinate parishes based on the town and its surrounding villages: Becklingen, Belsen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Diesten, Dohnsen, Eversen, Hagen, Hassel, Offen, Sülze and Wardböhmen. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was located in the area of Belsen.
The town had 13,099 inhabitants according to the census conducted in December 2008. Members of the British military and their families, who were not included in the census, bring the actual population to about 17,000. These soldiers occupy a NATO base and exercise on the Bergen-Hohne Training Area just outside the town. The Sieben Steinhäuser, a cluster of dolmens dating from the Stone Age, are located within the training area.
H. Bergen op Zoom
The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil pushed against the marine clay, accumulating and forming hills over several centuries. People called those hills the Brabantse Wal, literally meaning "wall of Brabant". Zoom refers to the border of this wall and bergen in Dutch means mountains or hills. The name has nothing to do with the little channel the ‘Zoom’ which was later built through Bergen op Zoom.
Source: Wikipedia
The task
Match the places above to the correct country/state/city, and replace the letters with the numbers:
N 60° AB.CDE E 005° CC.FGH
- North Brabant, Netherlands = 5
- New York, USA = 2
- Hordaland, Norway = 7
- Lower Saxony, Germany = 2
- Seattle, Washington, USA = 4
- New York, USA = 2
- North Holland, Netherlands = 0
- New Jersey, USA = 1