Talk:Valkenburg (South Holland)

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Is there a legal difference in town and village in the Netherlands? --rmhermen

Historically there has been a difference. Now it is a mainly a matter of size: in Dutch a small built-up area is called dorp (village), a large one stad (town or city). However, small places which historically were stad are now stadje (little town). Nowadays there are no legal differences. The bot that produced most articles on municipalities in the Netherlands did not make these distinctions and used 'town' in cases where 'village' is more appropriate.
In Dutch the word 'plaats' (place) can be conveniently used to avoid bothering about the distinction.
Patrick 09:55 Nov 15, 2002 (UTC)
Perhaps you should change them to city then because "village" and "town" are roughly equivalent but contrasted to the legally different "city" in most places I am aware of. Also "town" sometimes refers to the completely different concept of "township". --rmhermen
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