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When discussing cities, the distinction is sometimes made between the cities in two urban networks. 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.
This list of cities, towns and villages in the Netherlands by province is a survey of lists by province: List of cities, towns and villages in Drenthe;
Detailed road map of the Netherlands (2012) The Netherlands has a public road network totaling 139,000 km, [1] one of the densest in the world. [2] [3] [nb 1] Its use has increased since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km traveled per year, [5] three quarters of which is by car, [6] making it among the most intensely used road networks. [4]
The province of Utrecht in the centre of the country however, has the busiest motorways on average (almost 100,000 vehicles a day), with major motorways A1, A2, A12, A27 and A28 running through it. [9] The busiest 4-lane motorway in the Netherlands is the A10 in the Coen Tunnel in Amsterdam with 110.000 vehicles per day. The widest Dutch ...
The city routes are the spokes that connect this hub with the outer ring road, in the case of Amsterdam the A10 motorway. Each city route is in principle numbered according to the exit it connects with at the outer ring road. For example, the S110 connects inner ring road S100 with exit 10 of motorway A10. Other cities followed the Amsterdam ...
Rank Name Province Pop. Rank Name Province Pop. Amsterdam Rotterdam: 1: Amsterdam: North Holland: 931,298: 11: Apeldoorn: Gelderland: 168,211 The Hague Utrecht: 2 ...
Route through Aalsmeer now N196 N 201: 56: 35 Zandvoort: Hilversum — — Route through Aalsmeer now N196 N 202: 6.8: 4.2 IJmuiden: S 102 in Amsterdam — — Was A6 before 1948 N 203: 19: 12 S 152 in Wormerveer: N513 near Limmen — — Route in Zaanstad now S 152 since mid-2014; route between N246 and A9 is designated as N8 as there is no ...
These are the Netherlands' motorways by their national number, listed with the most important towns at or near the roads. The numbers start with 'A' for 'autosnelweg' (motorway in Dutch). Some of these also carry one or more European E-road numbers on (sections of) their trajectory.