Valkenburg, South Holland
# Valkenburg, South Holland

Valkenburg ( (listen)) is a village and former municipality in the province of South Holland, in the western Netherlands. Valkenburg is now part of the municipality Katwijk and had a population of 3,900 in 2006.

On 1 January 2006, Valkenburg and Rijnsburg were merged into the municipality of Katwijk. The former municipality of Valkenburg had about 3878 inhabitants (1 June 2005) and a surface area of 15.74 $km^2$ (6.08 sq mi) of which 0.23 $km^2$ (0.09 sq mi) is water.

On the second Wednesday in September there is a horse market, the oldest in the Netherlands. 2010 marked its 1066th year of operation.

The former Valkenburg Naval Air Base, which was situated here since 1936, was closed in 2006.

