Zoetermeer

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Zoetermeer

Total population

124,780

Coordinates52.06°, 4.49°

Demographic figures from CBS Netherlands. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Zoetermeer is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.05 km2 (14.31 sq mi) of which 2.60 km2 (1.00 sq mi) is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2023 this had grown to 126,998, making it the fourth largest population centre in the province of South Holland, after Rotterdam, The Hague and Leiden. While now a city in its own right, Zoetermeer started out as a suburb of The Hague and is still a part of the Greater The Hague urban area.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.