Talk:List of cities in the Netherlands by province

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What is the criteria for being a city? Does it require a specific charter? Or is it just a large community? Rmhermen 15:11, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

It's now just a relatively large community, though many smaller settlements which once got a charter are still called city (stad) as well. Places which are neither large nor ever got a charter (e.g. Bergeijk) should be removed. Fransvannes 23:23, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

In the Netherlands, places with more than 50.000 inhabitents are most often refered to as cities. I have made some changes on-, and edited text to this page. If these changes do not meet the criteria for this page, than of course everybody is free to remove it. My source on this topic came from the Dutch Atlas 'De Kleine Bosatlas, Achtenvijftigste druk, vierde oplage 1996', from the publisher of Wolters-Noordhoff Atlasproducties Groningen. To be exact, the page on where one can find information about whether a city used to be a village or not, is page 8c. Rob --84.104.123.100 23:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me 60,000 middelgroot; over 100,000 groot; this is ridiculous. There are only 3 (or 4) grote steden (large cities) in the Netherlands, and even these are v. modest in international context: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and possibly Utrecht (288,000). Grote stad should either be 250,000 or 300,000. Setting medium size at 60,000 is also fairly arbitrary (including Bergen op Zoom (65,000) but excluding Roermond (54,000). This is either wishfull thinking of someone living in a middle sized city, or complete nonsense. Anyway this whole list seems redundant and badly constucted, so it maybe deleted as well. Arnoutf 23:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Arnoutf and Fransvannes. Note that the article implies the existence of some sort of 'official' city status in the Netherlands. However, city rights and a distinct administrative status for cities were abolished in 1851 (unlike in the UK, for example). Therefore it's complete nonsense to exclude Almere (186,000) from this list.

On big, medium and small cities, I guess it depends on the region. People in Drenthe might speak of Zwolle and Groningen as big cities while people in the West would disagree. One must also consider the degree of economic and cultural self-reliance. Emmeloord, Goes and Leiderdorp all have close to 25k inhabitants, but while Goes is clearly a historic city of some importance, Leiderdorp is just a suburb basically. Emmeloord is complicated, I guess you could argue both ways.

If we must attach numbers to it, I'd personally classify places in the Netherlands with 0-2000 inhabitants as a 'gehucht', 2000-20k as a 'dorp', 20k-60k a small city, 60k-150k a medium city and >150k a big city - Junuxx (talk) 02:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Totally agree with all that's been mentioned here. Something as a "city charter" or "city rights" does not exist in the Netherlands (even though it existed in the very past). It says Hilversum is a village of >80.000, which is absolutely ridiculous. Hilversum is a medium-sized city. --Globe-trotter (talk) 20:11, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever the specific status of cities (ie charter, cathedral or whatever) I do not think that anything over 10,000 inhabitants (or perhaps even as few as 1,000) should be labeled village, the correct denomination for settlements like Hilversum is town (or city). Arnoutf (talk) 21:25, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Drenthe is missing from the list of provinces. Drenthe has four cities: Assen, Emmen, Hoogeveen and Meppel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.84.28.234 (talk) 22:54, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]