West Netherlands

West Netherlands
West-Nederland
Region
West Netherlands in orange
West Netherlands in orange
CountryNetherlands
Area
 • Total
11,892 km2 (4,592 sq mi)
Population
 (2024)[2]
 • Total
8,608,638
 • Density720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
GDP
 • Total€567.006 billion (2023)
NUTS codeNL3
HDI (2022)0.950[5]
very high

West Netherlands (Dutch: West-Nederland) is a subdivision of Netherlands as defined by the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). It is one of the four classified NUTS-1 statistical regions of Netherlands. The region incorporates the western parts of the country, and encompasses an area of 11,892 km2 (4,592 sq mi). The region has a long coastline along the North Sea to the west and shares an international border with Belgium to the south. It incorporates four provincesNorth Holland, South Holland, Utrecht, and Zeeland. With a population of over 8.6 million, it is densely populated and is the most populated of the all the regions in Netherlands. The region forms most of the Randstad region, and includes the capital Amsterdam and the country's other largest urban areas in Rotterdam, Hague, and Utrecht.

  1. ^ "Area by NUTS 3 regions - km2". Eurostat. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Population on 1 January by NUTS 2 region". Eurostat. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  3. ^ "EU regions by GDP". Eurostat. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  4. ^ "GDP per capita in 281 EU regions in 2017". Eurostat. Europa web portal. 26 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". Global datalab. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

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