List of Cities in The Netherlands With Over 100,000 People

This is a list of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people ranked by population size. Unless otherwise noted, the data are based on the December 30, 2010 publication Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (translation: "Key figures on districts and neighbourhoods") of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).

Cities are here limited by the municipality boundaries (so that municipalities always have an equal or higher population size as the city). However, the CBS does not suggest which districts within a municipality should be considered part of a city, making the given population numbers arbitrary to some extent. For example Zaanstad, with 141,000 inhabitants, is excluded in the current version as the continuous urban area within its municipality is not considered one city by some.

Rank City Population Province Notes
1 Amsterdam 780,000 North Holland
2 Rotterdam 611,000 South Holland
3 The Hague 500,000 South Holland
4 Utrecht 312,634 Utrecht
5 Eindhoven 213,809 North Brabant
6 Tilburg 203,492 North Brabant
7 Almere 193,303 Flevoland
8 Groningen 187,298 Groningen
9 Breda 173,299 North Brabant
10 Nijmegen 164,165 Gelderland
11 Apeldoorn 155,726 Gelderland
12 Enschede 154,017 Overijssel
13 Haarlem 151,853 North Holland
14 Arnhem 147,018 Gelderland
15 Amersfoort 126,750 Utrecht
16 Dordrecht 118,540 South Holland
17 Zoetermeer 118,020 South Holland
18 Zwolle 118,000 Overijssel
19 Leiden 117,480 South Holland
20 Maastricht 116,200 Limburg
21 Ede 107,476 Gelderland
22 's-Hertogenbosch 102,220 North Brabant
23 Venlo 100,271 Limburg

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