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Netherlands: 12 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 12 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-NLD-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NLD / NLStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
12
first-level units
356
units at 2 levels
17,764,294
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Netherlands by province, state and territory

12 first-level units and 344 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 12 first-level units of Netherlands
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Netherlands

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
12 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · each with its own page
ADM2
344 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · each with its own page
03Units

All 12 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication.

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Drenthe NL-DR 497,361 496,900 2,670 186 2.8% 190,506
Flevoland NL-FL 478,763 463,594 2,402 199 2.7% 59,301
Fryslân NL-FR 669,015 664,596 5,730 117 3.8% 359,445
Gelderland NL-GE 2,131,054 2,199,869 5,118 416 12% 915,933
Groningen NL-GR 575,195 596,434 2,941 196 3.2% 354,780
Limburg NL-LI 1,119,901 1,153,184 2,202 509 6.3% 9,424
Noord-Brabant NL-NB 2,584,784 2,700,053 5,064 510 14.6% 1,105,264
Noord-Holland NL-NH 2,895,121 3,003,268 4,077 710 16.3% 1,615,704
Overijssel NL-OV 1,177,872 1,178,939 3,408 346 6.6% 503,005
Utrecht NL-UT 1,530,878 1,543,022 1,554 985 8.6% 1,102,936
Zeeland NL-ZE 397,902 402,095 2,922 136 2.2% 244,224
Zuid-Holland NL-ZH 3,706,448 3,924,035 3,296 1,125 20.9% 2,020,539
04જોખમ

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Netherlands publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NLD ADM1, source: National Georegister, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2022
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NLD ADM2, source: National Georegister, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2022
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
દેશો
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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