Landgraaf Lankgraaf
Municipality
Watermill at Strijthagen castle
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Limburg
Coordinates: 50°54′N 6°1′E / 50.900°N 6.017°E / 50.900; 6.017
Country	Netherlands
Province	Limburg
Government [1]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Raymond Vlecken (CDA)
Area [2]
• Total	24.67 km2 (9.53 sq mi)
• Land	24.58 km2 (9.49 sq mi)
• Water	0.09 km2 (0.03 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	161 m (528 ft)
Population  (January 2021)[4]
• Total	37,262
• Density	1,516/km2 (3,930/sq mi)
Demonym	Landgravenaar
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	6370–6374
Area code	045
Website	www.landgraaf.nl

Landgraaf (Dutch: [ˈlɑntxraːf] ^ⓘ; Limburgish: Lankgraaf [ˈlɑŋkxʀaːf])^[tone?] is a municipality in southeastern Limburg, Netherlands, forming part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration. Snow World is the largest indoor ski piste in Europe.

Population centres

• Nieuwenhagen
• Schaesberg
• Ubach over Worms

Topography

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Landgraaf, June 2015

Special information

A pop music festival called Pinkpop is held annually on the Pentecost weekend in Schaesberg, a town in Landgraaf.

Landgraaf is home to the largest indoor ski piste in Europe, called Snow World.^[5]

Notable natives

• Johan Kremers (born 1933 in Nieuwenhagen) a Queen's Commissioner of Limburg from 1977 to 1990
• Harry Kempen (1937 in Nieuwenhagen – 2000) a cultural psychologist and academic
• Joep Lange (1954 in Nieuwenhagen – 2014) a Dutch clinical researcher in HIV therapy, International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004
• Annemarie Mol (born 1958 in Schaesberg) a Dutch ethnographer, philosopher and academic
• Henk Blezer (born 1961 in Schaesberg) a Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies
• Sharon Walraven (born 1970 in Schaesberg) a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, silver medallist at the 2000 Paralympics and gold medallist at the 2008 Paralympics
• Carach Angren (formed 2003 in Landgraaf) is a symphonic black metal band