Petten is a village and former municipality, but nowadays part of the municipality of Schagen, in the province of North Holland. The village is situated at the North Sea. The number of inhabitants is approximately 1,640.
Petten lives from agriculture (flower bulb cultivation), and tourism. On the beach of Petten a special kind of sand can be found, consisting of smooth sanded quartz with garnet.
A little south of Petten the line of dunes has been washed away, so that a dike had to be built, the Hondsbossche Zeewering. The latest dike reinforcement created a new dune area: the Hondsbossche Dunes. The present village of Petten is the fourth village on (more or less) the same spot, after two earlier villages disappeared into the sea and a third was demolished by the Germans during the Second World War.
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