Editing Geography of the Netherlands (section)

== Urbanization ==
=== Largest cities ===
With their provinces in November 2019:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37230ned/table?fromstatweb|title = CBS Statline}}</ref>

# [[Amsterdam]]  (North Holland) 872,680 inhabitants
# [[Rotterdam]]  (South Holland) 650,711
# [[The Hague]] ('s-Gravenhage)  (South Holland) 544,766
# [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]]  (Utrecht) 357,179
# [[Eindhoven]]  (North Brabant) 234,235
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+List of metropolitan areas of European Netherlands
!Metropolitan area
!Core city
!Population
|-
|[[Randstad]]
|[[Amsterdam]]
|8,366,078
|-
|{{ill|Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague|nl|Metropoolregio_Rotterdam_Den_Haag}}
|[[Rotterdam]]
|2,392,289
|-
|{{ill|Amsterdam Transport Region|nl|Vervoerregio_Amsterdam}}
|Amsterdam
|1,484,893
|-
|{{ill|Utrecht10|nl|Bestuur_Regio_Utrecht}}
|[[Utrecht]] 
|650,000
|-
|{{ill|Brabant city row|nl|Brabantse_Stedenrij}}
|[[Eindhoven]]
|2,145,390
|-
|{{ill|Park city Limburg|nl|Parkstad_Limburg}}
|[[Heerlen]]
|255,000
|-
|{{ill|Green Metropolitan Region Arnhem-Nijmegen|nl|Stadsregio_Arnhem_Nijmegen}}
|[[Arnhem]]
|738,700
|-
| {{ill|Twente region|nl|Regio_Twente}}
|[[Enschede]]
|620,000
|-
|{{ill|Groningen-Assen region|nl|Regio_Groningen-Assen}}
|[[Groningen]]
|500,000
|-
| {{ill|Breda-Tilburg|nl|Breda-Tilburg}}
|[[Tilburg]]
|530,557
|-
| {{ill|Eindhoven Metropolitan Region|nl|Metropoolregio_Eindhoven}}
|[[Eindhoven]]
|784,369
|-
|{{ill|Brabant Outer Cities and Woensdrecht|nl|Brabantse_Buitensteden_en_Woensdrecht}}
|[[Roosendaal]]
|164,838
|-
|[[Amersfoort]]
|[[Amersfoort]]
|286,053
|-
|[[Apeldoorn]]
|[[Apeldoorn]]
|212,808
|-
|[[Dordrecht]]
|[[Dordrecht]]
|283,906
|-
|[[Haarlem]]
|[[Haarlem]]
|414,491
|-
|[['s-Hertogenbosch]]
|[['s-Hertogenbosch]]
|194,730
|-
|[[Leeuwarden]]
|[[Leeuwarden]]
|162,078
|-
|[[Leiden]]
|[[Leiden]]
|338,356
|-
|[[Maastricht]]
|[[Maastricht]]
|181,153
|-
|[[Sittard-Geleen]]
|[[Sittard-Geleen]]
|150,448
|-
|[[Zwolle]]
|[[Zwolle]]
|178,021
|}