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🇳🇱 Netherlands 14 administrative divisions

14 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 8,236 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1
NL
Capital
Amsterdam
Continent
Europe
Currency
EUR — euro
Calling code
+31
Internet domain
.nl
Divisions
14
Cities and towns
8,236

Divisions

The 14 divisions of Netherlands

14 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division ISO 3166-2 Cities and towns Population
North Brabant NL-NB 1,396 2,256,848
Friesland NL-FR 1,010 649,944
Limburg NL-LI 967 1,120,006
Groningen NL-GR 878 582,728
Gelderland NL-GE 854 2,019,692
North Holland NL-NH 701 2,813,466
South Holland NL-ZH 625 3,577,032
Zeeland NL-ZE 523 386,707
Overijssel NL-OV 491 1,142,360
Drenthe NL-DR 438 491,792
Utrecht NL-UT 291 1,253,672
Flevoland NL-FL 46 399,893
Bonaire NL-BQ1 10 24,090
Saba NL-BQ2 5 2,035

A further 1 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Netherlands
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/NL.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/NL/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.