North Holland · The Netherlands
Amsterdam population
741,636people · latest figure
Amsterdam has a population of 741,636, making it the 2nd largest place we list in The Netherlands. It is in North Holland.
Amsterdam holds 4.0% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is only slightly larger. The World Gazetteer published 741,636 for Amsterdam in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Rotterdam | South Holland | 868,135 |
| The Hague | South Holland | 474,292 |
| Utrecht | Utrecht | 376,435 |
| Groningen | Groningen | 244,807 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.