List of Dutch municipalities

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Dutch municipalities (2019)

The Netherlands is divided into a total of 355 independent municipalities (as of January 1, 2019) as well as the three special municipalities ( Dutch bijzondere ) that were created when the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved.

development

The number of municipalities in the Netherlands has been decreasing for years.

Development of the number of municipalities
date number
2005 467
2006 458
2007 443
2009 441
January 1, 2010 431
March 18, 2010 430
January 1, 2011 418
January 1, 2012 415
January 1, 2013 408
1st of January 2014 403
January 1, 2015 393
January 1, 2016 390
January 1, 2017 388
1st January 2018 380
1st January 2019 355

list

Note: The sequence of letters IJ or ij is treated as one letter in the alphabetical order between Y and Z (e.g. IJsselstein to Wijk, Eijsden to Etten-Leur, etc.). For more on the problem, see also IJ .


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D.

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H

K

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See also