Municipalities in the Netherlands

All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 467 (2005); among these 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.
- Valkenburg (South Holland), just a small village, yet a municipality by itself.
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:
- Berkel en Rodenrijs, comprising the villages Berkel and Rodenrijs.
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.

In 2005 the number of municipalities was reduced by 16: 7 were each added to an existing municipality, and four new municipalities were formed by merging 5, 4, 2, and 2 municipalities.

All municipalities are listed in the province articles, see:

Contents

1 Alphabetic list

2 Further subdivisions

3 See also

4 External links

Alphabetic list

Further subdivisions

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

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.

External links

changes from 2005 (http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/gemhis.html#nu) (in Dutch)

For the links below, and the articles, note that they do not always reflect the 2005 situation yet.

province maps showing subdivision in municipalities, link for each municipality to basic data page (http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gemeentes/gemprovin.htm)
list of municipalities (http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/scdata/gemalfabet.htm)
overheid.nl (www.overheid.nl/info/english.html) (http://www.overheid.nl/info/english.html) - official Dutch government site
http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/gemprov.html
for each municipality a pdf file (http://www.cbs.nl/nl/publicaties/publicaties/nederland-regionaal/gom/2002/gemeente-a.htm) - 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)
lists of "places" (towns, villages, and various smaller entities), with municipality: alphabetical (ca. 4,800) (http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/almanak.html) - by province (extended, ca. 7,000) (http://www.metatopos.org/)
http://www.statoids.com/ynl.html de:Liste der niederländischen Gemeinden

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Municipalities in the Netherlands

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