Purmerland (pronunciationⓘ) is a village of 395 (January 2007)[3] in the municipality of Landsmeer, North Holland, the Netherlands.

It is located just north of Den Ilp and just south of the housing estate of Weidevenne, part of the city of Purmerend.

The man standing highlighted at center on Rembrandt's Night Watch painting is Frans Banning Cocq.

During the Dutch Golden Age the country surrounding villages like these was Amsterdam's breadbasket, as the draining of bogland created bountiful fertile soil.

However, the draining of the soil caused it to shrink, until it reached the water level of the Zuiderzee only a few miles to the east.