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Satellite photo of Amsterdam, 2020 Topographic map of Amsterdam Large-scale map of the city centre of Amsterdam, including sightseeing markers, as of April 2017. Amsterdam is located in the Western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland, the capital of which is not Amsterdam, but rather Haarlem.
Amsterdam-Centrum is the inner-most borough and historical city centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands, containing the majority of the city's landmarks. Established in 2002, Amsterdam-Centrum was the last area in the city to be granted the status of self-governing borough. The borough is 8.04 km 2 and covers the UNESCO-listed Amsterdam canal belt.
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image = Location map Netherlands Amsterdam Central.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 52.4145 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 52.3527 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 4.8521 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 4.9598 Longitude at right edge of ...
Royal Palace of Amsterdam Amsterdam, one of Europe's capitals, has many attractions for visitors. The city's most famous sight is the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam (in Dutch: grachtengordel), located in the heart of Amsterdam, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Museums Main article: List of museums in Amsterdam Nemo museum in Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum is the national museum ...
The Dutch word for city is stad (plural: steden). The intermediate category of town does not exist in Dutch, but provinciestad (small city in the province) comes close. Historically, there existed systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place: a stad or dorp. Cities were self-governing and had ...
From the end of the 16th century, the city grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful city in the Netherlands and the main centre of trade, commerce, finance and culture. The origins of the split between Amsterdam as capital city and The Hague as seat of government lay in the peculiar Dutch constitutional history.