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Nijmegen became a free imperial city in 1230 and in 1402 a Hanseatic city. Since 1923 it has been a university city with the opening of a Catholic institution now known as the Radboud University Nijmegen. The city is well known for the annual International Four Days Marches Nijmegen event. Its population as of 2024 was 187,011. [10]
The municipal council, which is titled island council in the special municipalities, is elected every four years. [8] The number of members in the council ranges from nine members for the smallest municipalities to forty-five members for the largest. [9] It is the highest administrative body in the municipality and controls public policy.
Rijk van Nijmegen. The Rijk van Nijmegen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌrɛik fɑ ˈnɛimeːɣə(n)]) is a region in the southeast of Gelderland. The region is located around the city of Nijmegen, south of the Waal and east of the Land van Maas en Waal. The area owes its name to the area that in earlier centuries belonged to the free imperial city of ...
Lent was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Elst. [5] In 1998, it was merged into Nijmegen. The population at the time of merger was about 3,000 people, however it almost quadrupled in 20 years due to neighbourhoods being built in Lent. [4]
It is part of the municipality of Nijmegen, situated in the Lent Quarter, north of both the city center and the main channel of the Waal. Owing to the threat of dike breaches at high water, it was decided in 1995 that more water would need to flow through the river. Because the sharp bend in the Waal at Nijmegen created a bottleneck and ...
Gelderland can roughly be divided into four geographical regions: the Veluwe in the north, the Rivierenland including the Betuwe in the southwest, the Achterhoek (literally meaning the "back corner") or Graafschap (which originally means earldom or county) in the east and the city-region of Arnhem and Nijmegen in the centre-south.
The municipality borders in the north on the Waal river and the Bijlands Kanaal, in the east on the German forest of the Reichswald, in the south on the province of Limburg, in the southwest on the forest of the Mookerheide (also Limburg), and in the west on the city of Nijmegen.
Map. Green Metropolitan Region. The Dutch Plusregio was abolished by law in 2014, and the Arnhem–Nijmegen metropolitan area closed 1 July 2015, and replaced by new arrangements for cooperation between the same eighteen municipalities. Since 2021 this has been the Arnhem-Nijmegen Green Metropolitan Region (Dutch: Groene Metropoolregio Arnhem ...