List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people

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Rank	City	Population	Province	Notes
1	Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....	739,290		excl. Driemond and Landelijk Noord
2	Rotterdam Rotterdam Rotterdam ; city and municipality in the Netherlands province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people in the country, with a population of 584,046 on 1 January 2007 and comprises the southern part of the Randstad, the List of metropolitan are...	539,650		excl. Hoek van Holland, Hoogvliet and Pernis
3	The Hague The Hague The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....	473,940		Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...  name: Den Haag
4	Utrecht Utrecht (city) Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands province of Utrecht . It is located in the North-Eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030....	255,200		excl. Vleuten, De Meern, and Haarzuilens
5	Eindhoven Eindhoven Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams....	209,700
6	Almere Almere Media:Nl-Almere.ogg is a city and municipality in Flevoland, the Netherlands, bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde. The municipality of Almere comprises the districts Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten, Almere Hout, Almere Poort and Almere Pampus ....	185,430
7	Tilburg Tilburg Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant.Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout....	182,150		excl. Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout
8	Groningen Groningen (city) ||-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |}Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. With a population of 185,000, it is by far the largest city in the north of the Netherlands....	166.120		excl. Engelbert, Hoogkerk, Middelbert and Noorderhoogebrug
9	Nijmegen Nijmegen Nijmegen is a municipality and a city in the east of the Netherlands, near the Germany border. It is considered to be the oldest city in the Netherlands and celebrated its 2000th year of existence in 2005....	151,030		excl. Lent and Oosterhout
10	Haarlem Haarlem , in the past usually 'Harlem' in English, is a city in the Netherlands. It is also the Capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was one of the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic....	146,960		excl.Bloemendaal, Hillegom, Heemstede, Velsen, Overveen
11	Arnhem Arnhem Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St....	140,780		excl. Schaarsbergen
12	Breda Breda Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the place where the rivers Mark and Aa River come together....	139,810		excl. Bavel, Effen, Prinsenbeek, Teteringen and Ulvenhout
13	Apeldoorn Apeldoorn Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, about 60 miles south east of Amsterdam, in the centre of the Netherlands....	136,510		excl. Beekbergen, Hoenderloo, Hoog Soeren, Klarenbeek, Lieren, Loenen, Uddel and Ugchelen
14	Enschede Enschede or Eanske in the local dialect is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, in the Twente region. The municipality of Enschede consisted of the city of Enschede until 1935, when the rural municipality of Lonneker, which completely enclosed the city, was annexed after the rapid industrial expansion of...	132,560		excl. Boekelo, Glanerbrug, Lonneker and Usselo
15	Amersfoort Amersfoort Media:Nl-Amersfoort.ogg is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly and has a well-preserved medieval core....	126,750		excl. Hoogland and Hooglanderveen
16	Dordrecht Dordrecht Media:Nl-Dordrecht.ogg , in English Dort and in the local dialect Dordt, is a city and municipality in the Netherlands province of South Holland, the third largest city of the province....	118,540
17	Zoetermeer Zoetermeer Zoetermeer is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.06 km? . Though a small village until the late 1960s, with only 6,392 people living in the entire municipality in 1950 , by March 1, 2007 this number had grown to 118,483, making Zoetermeer the third largest population cen...	118,020
18	Leiden	117,480
19	Maastricht Maastricht Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands province of Limburg , of which it is the Capital . The city is situated on both sides of the Meuse River river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Belgium and Germany borders....	116,200		excl. Borgharen and Itteren
20	Zwolle Zwolle Media:Nl-Zwolle.ogg is a municipality and the capital city of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands, 120 kilometers northeast of Amsterdam. Zwolle has about 115,000 citizens....	112,250		excl. Brinkhoek, Haerst, Herfte, Langenholte, Wijthmen and Windesheim
21	's-Hertogenbosch 's-Hertogenbosch 's-Hertogenbosch , colloquially known as Den Bosch ? translated in French language as Bois-le-Duc, in German language as Herzogenbusch, in Spanish language as Bolduque and in Italian language as Boscoducale ? is a municipality in the Netherlands, and also the capital of the province of North Brabant....	102,220		excl. Bokhoven, Empel, Engelen, Kruisstraat, Maliskamp and Rosmalen

See also

• List of cities in the Netherlands by province
  List of cities in the Netherlands by province
  
  This is a list of large cities and towns in the Netherlands, sorted by province.There are no words in the Netherlands which exactly correspond to the English concept of a 'town'....
  
• List of places in the Netherlands
  List of places in the Netherlands
  
  This is an alphabetical list of places in the Netherlands. Lists per province can be found at:* List of towns in Groningen* List of towns in Friesland...