| Pekela | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Flag Size: | 100x67px |
| Map Alt: | Highlighted position of Pekela in a municipal map of Groningen |
| Coordinates: | 53.1°N 7°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Netherlands |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Groningen |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Governing Body: | Municipal council |
| Leader Party: | PvdA |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 1 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
| Postal Code: | 9662–9669 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | 0597 |
Pekela (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /ˈpeːkəlaː/) is a municipality in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was created in 1990 when Oude Pekela and Nieuwe Pekela were merged.
Pekela is located at 53.1°N 7°W in the southeast of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is bordered by the municipalities of:The river Pekel Aa crosses the municipality from north to south. The main population centres in the municipality are the villages of (Upper Pekela), Nieuwe Pekela (New Pekela), and Oude Pekela (Old Pekela). Part of the village of Alteveer and the hamlets of Bronsveen and are also in the municipality.
The municipality has a total area of NaNsqmiNaNsqmi, of which NaNsqmiNaNsqmi is land and NaNsqmiNaNsqmi is water.
The mayor (burgemeester) of Pekela is Jaap Kuin of the Labour Party.[1] The municipal council consists of 15 seats, which are divided as follows:
| Municipality seats | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018[3] | 2022[4] | ||||||||||
| SP | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Samen Voor Pekela | - | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| PvdA | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| CDA | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| GroenLinks | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Party for Freedom | PVV | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| VVD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| ChristenUnie | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||||||
| VCP | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||||||
| Total | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | ||||||||||
In, the municipality had a total population of, a population density of NaN/sqmiNaN/sqmi.