 Although Maarland since 1828 is a township of Oost, the relevant administrative population centre then was named "Oost-Maarland".This name is somewhat confusing as Oost is also the Dutch word for East, so that it seems as if this place were the eastern part of Maarland.Besides Oost and Maarland are situated aside each other, but Oost (despite its name) on the western side, near the river Meuse and Maarland just to the southeast.