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Municipalities of the Netherlands

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All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 443 (2007).

Among the municipalities we can distinguish:

• those comprising one main city, town or village with the same name as the municipality, and possibly some additional villages; for example
  • Utrecht, comprising the city Utrecht and the villages De Meern, Haarzuilens, Vleuten.
• those comprising several villages, none with the name of the municipality; in that case the name of the municipality may not be as well-known outside it as the villages; for example:
  • Albrandswaard comprising the villages of Poortugaal and Rhoon.
• those with a double name, comprising (mainly) the two towns or villages in the name, for example:
  • Pijnacker-Nootdorp, comprising the villages Pijnacker and Nootdorp.
• those comprising a main town and additional villages, yet the municipality is not named after this town; for example:
  • Smallingerland with main town Drachten.
  • Haarlemmermeer with main town Hoofddorp.

Recent politics have led to a great number of mergers between smaller municipalities or with cities, a process which will continue in the future (with a few mergers set to occur on 2009-01-01 and 2010-01-01). On 15 December 2008 Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius will become part of the Netherlands per se with a status equivalent to that of municipalities.¹

All current municipalities of the Netherlands have a different name, except that there are Bergen, North Holland and Bergen, Limburg.

All municipalities are listed in the province articles, see:

• Drenthe#Municipalities
• Flevoland#Municipalities
• Friesland#Municipalities
• Gelderland#Municipalities
• Groningen#Municipalities
• Limburg#Municipalities
• North Brabant#Municipalities
• North Holland#Municipalities
• Overijssel#Municipalities
• South Holland#Municipalities
• Utrecht#Municipalities
• Zeeland#Municipalities

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Further subdivisions

Based on a subdivision made for the 1947 census, there are ca. 2,400 quarters, subdivided in ca. 11,000 neighbourhoods.

On the other hand, there is a list of 7,000 places.

A large place consists of several quarters, but a small place is only part of a quarter.

See links below.

See also

• Table of municipalities of the Netherlands
• Geography of the Netherlands
• List of cities in the Netherlands by province
• Association of Netherlands Municipalities
• Municipal politics in the Netherlands

References

External links

• changes from 2006 (in Dutch)
• map (pdf)

For the links below, and the articles, note that they do not always reflect the 2006 situation yet.

• For each municipality a pdf file – with statistics in Dutch, and with (towards the end) a map showing the neighborhoods (together ca. 11,000), and listing (a few pages further) the population figures etc. as well as the grouping into quarters (together ca 2,400)
• Municipality data by province
• http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gemeentes/gemprovin.htm Province maps showing subdivision in municipalities, link for each municipality to basic data page
• http://www.metatopos.org/ An overview of provinces, with details on the following pages
  • http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/almanak.html – alphabetical (ca. 4,800)
  • http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/gemprov.html – all municipalities with inhabitants and links to details
• Municipalities of the Netherlands at statoids.com
• list of municipalities
• http://www.overheid.nl/guest/ – official Dutch government site

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• This page was last modified on 26 October 2008, at 05:19.

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