Editing Rotterdam (section)

==In popular culture==
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Rotterdam features in [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story "[[The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall]]" (1835).<ref>Tretsch, John. "Extra! Extra! Poe invents science fiction!" as collected in ''The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe'', edited by Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge University Press, 2002: 117. {{ISBN|0-521-79727-6}}</ref>

Rotterdam features in J.T. [[Sheridan Le Fanu]]'s "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter" (1839).

In episode 2 of the first series of [[Survivors (1975 TV series)|''Survivors'']] Greg Preston says "Rotterdam was burning, just miles and miles of fire. Oil tanks going off like bombs."

In season 1, episode 2 of [[The Golden Girls (season 1)|''The Golden Girls'']] ("Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?"), [[Dorothy Zbornak|Dorothy]] reminisces how her ex-husband, Stan, would buy her tulips after they fought. "Towards the end, our house looked like Easter in Rotterdam."

In 1996, the [[United Kingdom|British]] band [[the Beautiful South]] recorded a song named after this region titled ''[[Rotterdam (or Anywhere)]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=everyHit.com – UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts |url=http://www.everyhit.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717022953/http://www.everyhit.com/ |archive-date=17 July 2007 |access-date=17 March 2016 |website=everyhit.com}}</ref>

Part of [[Jackie Chan]]'s 1998 film ''[[Who Am I? (1998 film)|Who Am I?]]'' is set in Rotterdam.

''[[Ender's Shadow]]'', part of the series ''[[Ender's Game]]'' is partially set in Rotterdam.

In the 2004 video game ''[[Hitman: Contracts]]'', the missions "Rendezvous in Rotterdam" and "Deadly Cargo" are both set in Rotterdam.

The [[2017 Laurence Olivier Awards|2017 Laurence Olivier Award]]-winning play ''[[Rotterdam (play)|Rotterdam]]'', written by [[Jon Brittain]], is set in the city.

In ''[[Battlefield V]]'', this city is used as a map released on its two of its maps on launch, which are Rotterdam and Devastation, and featured the [[British Army]] fighting against the [[Wehrmacht]] and according to its history, the [[Witte Huis|white building]] was almost left untouched by the bombing during WWII and that building can be seen on both in-game and real world.