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Arnhem population

162,424people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Arnhem has a population of 162,424, making it the 12th largest place we list in The Netherlands. It is in Gelderland.

Arnhem holds 0.88% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is 5.3 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 141,674, a rise of 15%.

162,424
population
141,674
in 2005
+14.6%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
NijmegenGelderland177,359
Almere StadFlevoland176,432
HaarlemNorth Holland162,543
's-HertogenboschNorth Brabant160,783
EnschedeOverijssel153,655
ZaanstadNorth Holland140,085

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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.