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Municipalities In The Netherlands All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 467 (2005); 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. In 2005 the number of municipalities was reduced by 16: 7 were each added to an existing municipality, and four new municipalities were formed by merging 5, 4, 2, and 2 municipalities. All municipalities are listed in the province articles, see: 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 For the links below, and the articles, note that they do not always reflect the 2005 situation yet. - province maps showing subdivision in municipalities, link for each municipality to basic data page
- list of municipalities
- overheid.nl (www.overheid.nl/info/english.html) - official Dutch government site
- http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/gemprov.html
- 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)
- lists of "places" (towns, villages, and various smaller entities), with municipality: alphabetical (ca. 4,800) - by province (extended, ca. 7,000)
- http://www.statoids.com/ynl.html
Netherlands, Municipalities in the
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