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The Randstad is the keystone of the Dutch railway network; most intercity connections terminate in one of the key cities in the Randstad. The railway network in the area is dense and heavily used. Together with the Swiss Federal Railways (1st), and the Belgian railways (3rd), the Dutch Railways are in the top 3 of Europe in punctuality.
Randstad NV, commonly known as Randstad and stylized as randstad, is a Dutch multinational human resource consulting firm headquartered in Diemen, Netherlands. Along with Adecco , the company is one of the two largest staffing firms worldwide.
The largest urban network is known as Randstad, including the largest four cities in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. Of these, 3 have historic city rights: Utrecht from 1122; Amsterdam from 1306; and Rotterdam from 1340.
A map of the Flemish Diamond within Belgium. The municipalities seen as being part of the "Flemish Diamond". The Flemish Diamond has a high degree of urban sprawl.. The Flemish Diamond (Dutch: Vlaamse Ruit) is the Flemish reference to a network of four metropolitan areas in Belgium, three of which are in the central provinces of Flanders, together with the Brussels-Capital Region. [1]
Starting in the 1930s, the four sons of Jacob Blokker and Saapke Kuiper opened multiple stores in the Randstad region under the name Gebroeders Blokker. This tradition continued through successive generations, growing Blokker into a national, and later international, retail chain. Former CEO Jaap Blokker was named businessman of the year in 2003.
This is a list of cities in Belgium. City status in Belgium is granted to a select group of municipalities by a royal decree or by an act of law. In 2022, the five largest cities or municipalities in Belgium in terms of population were Antwerp , Ghent , Charleroi , Liège , and Brussels .
the Randstad region in the west of the Netherlands (where densities reached 129 km, 128 km and 106 km per thousand km² in South Holland, Utrecht and North Holland respectively) the southern Dutch regions of Limburg and North Brabant (100 km and 99 km per thousand km² respectively).
The teams Knack Randstad Roeselare and Prefaxis Menen play in the highest volleyball league. Knack Randstad Roeselare also plays in the CEV Champions League , the European Championsleague. BC Oostende is a basketball team which plays in the major basketball league of Belgium.