Municipalities of the Netherlands

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All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 458 (2006); 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.
• 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. On 1 January 2007, the following mergers will occur:

• Ambt Montfort will be merged into Roerdalen.
• Bergschenhoek, Berkel en Rodenrijs and Bleiswijk will merge to form Lansingerland.
• Haelen, Heythuysen, Hunsel and Roggel en Neer will merge to form Leudal.
• Heel, Maasbracht and Thorn will merge to form Maasgouw.
• Noorder-Koggenland and Wognum will be merged into Medemblik.
• Obdam and Wester-Koggenland will merge to form Koggenland.
• Swalmen will be merged into Roermond.
• Ter Aar and Liemeer will be merged into Nieuwkoop.
• 's-Gravendeel will be merged into Binnenmaas.

Furthermore, per 1 July 2007 Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius will become part of the Netherlands per se with a status very similar to municipalities.

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

Contents 1 Alphabetic list 2 Further subdivisions 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Alphabetic list

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• Geography of the Netherlands
• List of cities in the Netherlands by province
• List of cities in the Netherlands with more than 100 000 inhabitants
• Association of Netherlands Municipalities VNG

[edit] 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
• list of municipalities
• http://www.overheid.nl/guest/ - official Dutch government site