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The city of Amsterdam is a municipality under the Dutch Municipalities Act. It is governed by a directly elected municipal council, a municipal executive and a mayor. Since 1981, the municipality of Amsterdam has gradually been divided into semi-autonomous boroughs, called stadsdelen or 'districts'. Over time, a total of 15 boroughs were created.
The Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (Dutch: Metropoolregio Amsterdam) is the city region around the city of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.It lies in the Noordvleugel (English: "North Wing") of the larger polycentric Randstad metropolitan area and encompasses the city of Amsterdam as well as 36 further municipalities within the two provinces of North Holland and Flevoland, [5] with a ...
Rank Name Province Pop. Rank Name Province Pop. Amsterdam Rotterdam: 1: Amsterdam: North Holland: 931,298: 11: Apeldoorn: Gelderland: 168,211 The Hague Utrecht: 2 ...
The largest urban network is known as Randstad, including the largest four cities in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. Of these, 3 have historic city rights: Utrecht from 1122; Amsterdam from 1306; and Rotterdam from 1340.
List includes metropolitan areas according only to the studies of ESPON, Eurostat, and OECD.For this reason some metropolitan areas, like the Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (with a population of 1,510,781 as of 2010 [1]) or the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area (with a population of 1,170,953 as of 2019 [2]), are not included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes.
For something uniquely Amsterdam-esque, Sweets Hotel is a city-wide series of 28 transformed bridge houses, where staff once manually controlled the canals. Now, guests use a passcode to ...
As of 2025, the New York metropolitan area is the world’s principal fintech and financial center [1] [2] and the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a nominal gross metropolitan product of over US$2.5 trillion.
Aldermen at Amsterdam's municipality voted Thursday in favor of a motion calling on the city to move the terminal away from its current location close to the central rail station.