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The Government of Rotterdam is the government of the municipality and city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Most of the inhabitants live in the city of Rotterdam, but the municipality also covers a number of small villages, and other parts of the local government, such as Rozenburg , cover an even larger area.
Rotterdam's first city hall stood on Hoogstraat and was housed in an old 14th-century urban boarding house. [2] However, By the end of the 19th century, the building could no longer accommodate municipal activities, so in 1905 it was decided to build a new building to house the council chamber on Coolsingel.
The municipality is the lowest level of government, but this does not reflect the importance that the Amsterdam and Rotterdam governments play in Dutch political life. There are a total of 342 municipalities in the Netherlands. [1]
As a second level administrative division municipalities are the third tier of public administration in the Netherlands after the central government and the provinces. [3] [4] The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state, which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law. [5]
The Dutch municipality Rotterdam is divided into districts and neighbourhoods for statistical purposes. The municipality is divided into the following statistical districts: District 01 Stadscentrum (CBS-districtcode:059901) District 03 Delfshaven (CBS-districtcode:059903) District 04 Overschie (CBS-districtcode:059904)
The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area (Dutch: Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag) [2] is a metropolitan area encompassing the cities of Rotterdam and The Hague as well as 21 other municipalities. [3] It was founded in 2014. The area has a population of approximately 2.7 million across 1,130 km 2 (440 sq mi). [1]
Rotterdam (/ ˈ r ɒ t ər d æ m / ROT-ər-dam, UK also / ˌ r ɒ t ər ˈ d æ m / ROT-ər-DAM; [8] [9] Dutch: [ˌrɔtərˈdɑm] ⓘ; lit. ' The Dam on the River Rotte ') is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.
Pernis (Dutch pronunciation:) [1] is a neighborhood and submunicipality (since 3 March 2010) of Rotterdam, Netherlands. The district has a population of 4,845 (2018) on a total area size of 1.60 km 2 (0.62 sq mi). Pernis is thus a full submunicipality of Rotterdam, but the former independent municipality had its own district council already.