Municipalities of the Netherlands

Municipalities of the Netherlands
Nederlandse gemeenten (Dutch)
Map of regular municipalities of the Netherlands, as of 1 January 2024
CategoryMunicipality
LocationKingdom of the Netherlands
Found inProvinces
Number342 + 3 (as of 1 January 2024)
Possible types
Government

Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities[1] (Dutch: gemeenten [ɣəˈmeːntə(n)] ; sing. gemeente [ɣəˈmeːntə] ) and three special municipalities (Dutch: bijzondere gemeenten [biˈzɔndərə -]) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public bodies (Dutch: openbare lichamen), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the central government and they are ruled by a municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in the mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical purposes.[2]

These municipalities come in a wide range of sizes, Westervoort is the smallest with a land area of 7.01 km2 (2.71 sq mi) and Súdwest-Fryslân the largest with a land area of 522.7 km2 (201.8 sq mi). Schiermonnikoog is both the least populated, with 972 people, and the least densely populated municipality at 23/km2 (60/sq mi). Amsterdam has the highest population with 931,298 residents as of January 2024, whereas The Hague is the most densely populated with a density of 6,868/km2 (17,790/sq mi).

  1. ^ "Gemeentelijke herindeling" [Municipal reorganisation] (in Dutch). Government of the Netherlands. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CBS_code was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Municipalities of the Netherlands

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