 In fact Oost-Maarland consists of two separate places with a different history.One is the village and former municipality of Oost, whereas the other is an in a distance of a few hundred metres separately to the southeast situated township called Maarland.Oost-Maarland is located some 3 km north of Eijsden, the biggest place in the municipality and south of Maastricht, the provincial capital.