Gelderland · The Netherlands
Nijmegen population
177,359people · latest figure
Nijmegen has a population of 177,359, making it the 9th largest place we list in The Netherlands. It is in Gelderland.
Nijmegen holds 0.96% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is 4.9 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 158,732, a rise of 12%.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eindhoven | North Brabant | 235,691 |
| Tilburg | North Brabant | 221,947 |
| Breda | North Brabant | 184,126 |
| Almere Stad | Flevoland | 176,432 |
| Haarlem | North Holland | 162,543 |
| Arnhem | Gelderland | 162,424 |
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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.