COROP

Corop is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Campaspe and on the Midland Highway, north of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Corop and the surrounding area had a population of 129, while the town itself claims a population of 33. Near the town are Lake Cooper and Greens Lake, both popular venues for aquatic activities. The town is home to as many holiday homes as permanent dwellings and the town is much larger in holiday times. Corop Post Office opened on 1 January 1868.

A COROP region is a division of the Netherlands for statistical purposes, used by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), among others. The Dutch abbreviation stands for (Coordination Commission Regional Research Programme), the name of the commission that designed the division in 1971. There are 40 COROP regions. Two provinces, Flevoland and Utrecht, each form a single COROP region; every other COROP region lies within one province and consists of a group of municipalities. These divisions are also used in the EU designation as NUTS 3. ==Design and use== The division was drawn up according to the nodal principle: each COROP region has a central core, such as a city, together with its surrounding catchment area, taking existing commuting patterns into account. Because the boundaries of the COROP regions follow provincial borders, this principle is not always fully respected. For statistics to remain comparable over time, it is important that the division is not changed too often. The COROP division has therefore barely changed since 1971, although many of the municipalities within it have since merged. ==List of municipalities by COROP region== ===Northern Netherlands=== ====Groningen province==== ====Friesland province==== ====Drenthe province==== ===Eastern Netherlands=== ====Overijssel province==== ====Gelderland province==== ====Flevoland province==== ===Western Netherlands=== ====Utrecht province==== ====North Holland province==== ====South Holland province==== ====Zeeland province==== ===Southern Netherlands=== ====North Brabant province==== ====Limburg province==== ==See also== Indeling van Nederland in 40 COROP-gebieden per 01-01-2017 (kaart), website CBS COROP-indeling per 01-01-2012 (kaart), website CBS COROP-indeling per 01-01-2012 (tekst), website CBS

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