All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 489 (from 2004: 483); 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:
  • those with a double name, comprising (mainly) the two towns or villages in the name, for example:
  • those comprising a main town and additional villages, yet the municipality is not named after this town; for example:
Recent politics have led to a great number of mergers between smaller municipalities or with cities.

All municipalities are listed in the province articles, see:

Table of contents
1 Further subdivisions
2 See also
3 External links

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.

See also

External links