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The Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (Dutch: Metropoolregio Amsterdam) is the city region around the city of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.It lies in the Noordvleugel (English: "North Wing") of the larger polycentric Randstad metropolitan area and encompasses the city of Amsterdam as well as 36 further municipalities within the two provinces of North Holland and Flevoland, [5] with a ...
The boroughs of Amsterdam (Dutch: stadsdelen; lit. "city parts") are the seven principal subdivisions of the municipality of Amsterdam, Netherlands. [2] Each borough is governed by a directly elected district committee (bestuurscommissie). The first Amsterdam boroughs were created in 1981, with other boroughs created in later years.
The Amsterdam metro data is updated to 1 January 2019. There are no current definitions for urban areas or metro regions of any other city in the Netherlands, per the CBS as of 8 March 2021. Other figures remain as of 2014, but it may be better to remove them, as they are quite dated.
In 1300, Amsterdam's population was around 1,000 people. [91] While many towns in Holland experienced population decline during the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam's population grew, [92] mainly due to the rise of the profitable Baltic maritime trade especially in grain after the Burgundian victory in the Dutch–Hanseatic War in 1441. [93]
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Moreover, the "four big cities" (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht) can in many ways be regarded as a single metropolitan area, the Randstad ("rim city" or "edge city") with over 7.5 million inhabitants around an agricultural "green heart" (Groene Hart). Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2019. [4]
As of 2014, the powers of the boroughs have been significantly reduced, although they still have an elected council called bestuurscommissie ('district committee'). On 24 March 2022, the city of Weesp merged with Amsterdam. [1] Thus Weesp became an urban area of the municipality of Amsterdam. [1] Westpoort covers the western harbour area of ...
The new metro line is the first to serve the Amsterdam North district, via a tunnel under the IJ. From there, it runs via Amsterdam Centraal to Amsterdam Zuid, which is planned to become the second biggest transport hub in the city, after Amsterdam Centraal. [39] The line includes a mixture of bored tunnels and immersed tunnels under the IJ. [40]