Drenthe · The Netherlands
Assen population
68,836people · latest figure
Assen has a population of 68,836, making it the 46th largest place we list in The Netherlands. It is in Drenthe.
Assen holds 0.37% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is 13 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 62,237, a rise of 11%.
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
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Zaandam | North Holland | 71,708 |
| Alphen aan den Rijn | South Holland | 70,251 |
| Hoorn | North Holland | 68,852 |
| Velsen-Zuid | North Holland | 67,758 |
| Ede | Gelderland | 67,670 |
| Bergen op Zoom | North Brabant | 66,256 |
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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.