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Netherlands postal codes, places and regions
Browse postal-code records and administrative regions, with optional GeoNames Gazetteer enrichment.
Postal data availableGazetteer places available
- Place records
- 4,334
- Postal codes
- 4,086
- Named places
- 2,426
- Mapped records
- 4,334
- Shared codes
- 220
Snapshot-derived insight
How dense is this postal directory?
In the active ZipCodeGlobe postal snapshot, Netherlands contains 4,334 active place records across 4,086 distinct postal codes — about 1.06 place records per represented code. This describes dataset representation, not population or legal postal boundaries.
GeoNames country reference
Geographic context for Netherlands
Amsterdamcapital
EURcurrency
31calling prefix
17,231,017countryInfo population field
GeoNames countryInfo postal format: #### @@. This is supporting reference metadata, not a postal-code record set.
Languages: nl-NL,fy-NL · Neighbour codes: DE,BE
GeoNames general Gazetteer
Major populated places
These are geographic place records, not postal-code records.
RotterdamSouth Holland · population field 868,135AmsterdamNorth Holland · population field 741,636The HagueSouth Holland · population field 474,292UtrechtUtrecht · population field 376,435GroningenGroningen · population field 244,807EindhovenNorth Brabant · population field 235,691TilburgNorth Brabant · population field 221,947BredaNorth Brabant · population field 184,126NijmegenGelderland · population field 177,359Almere StadFlevoland · population field 176,432HaarlemNorth Holland · population field 162,543ArnhemGelderland · population field 162,424
Postal regions
Drenthe263 codes · 279 recordsFlevoland97 codes · 97 recordsFriesland475 codes · 486 recordsGroningen253 codes · 264 recordsGuelders500 codes · 534 recordsLimburg282 codes · 289 recordsNorth Brabant521 codes · 564 recordsNorth Holland476 codes · 505 recordsOverijssel299 codes · 327 recordsSouth Holland548 codes · 579 recordsUtrecht234 codes · 247 recordsZeeland153 codes · 163 records
Popular postal starting characters
Source: GeoNames postal-code snapshot checked 2026-08-18. Postal data © GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0. Accuracy codes belong to the source and are not a ZipCodeGlobe verification claim.