Sellingen is a town in the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 province of Groningen

Groningen (province)

Groningen [] is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea...

. It is a part of the municipality of Vlagtwedde

Vlagtwedde

Vlagtwedde is a municipality in the very southeast of Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands with seat of local government in the community of Sellingen...

, and lies about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Emmen.

In 2006, statistical area "Sellingen", which also includes the surrounding countryside, had a population of 1920 in 820 households

Household

The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family"....

in an area of 29.75 square kilometres (11.49 sq mi), and the town of Sellingen had 1070 in 470 households in an area of 0.79 square kilometre (0.305020705288103 sq mi).