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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.Staff reporter. "Agreement on division of Netherlands Antilles" (HTML), Government.nl, 2007-02-13. Retrieved on 2007-02-24. (English)

All municipalities are listed in the province articles, see:

Alphabetic list

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.

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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