Zoetermeer fact: our municipality is so densely populated

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Do you regularly walk around with questions to which you cannot find the answer? The answers will not drastically change your life, but they will give you satisfaction. For example, we wonder how large and densely populated the municipality of Zoetermeer actually is.

As a proud Zoetermeer you naturally already know a lot about your city, but do you also know how many square kilometers the municipality of Zoetermeer is large? Time for some facts!

Area of ​​the Netherlands

We work from large to small. The surface of the Netherlands is 41,850 square kilometers and 18.41 percent of this is water. The Netherlands has a good 17.7 million inhabitants. central government calculated that in 2022 the average population density in the Netherlands will be 523 inhabitants per square kilometer. What do you think? Is the population density in Zoetermeer higher or lower?

The highest population density is found in The Hague with 6,712 inhabitants per square kilometre. The Wadden Islands of Schiermonnikoog and Vlieland are the least densely populated municipalities with 22 and 29 inhabitants respectively. (Source: central government)

Surface Zoetermeer

Our municipality has an area of ​​37.05 square kilometers. According to the national government, there were exactly 125,767 Zoetermeer residents in 2022. This means that the population density of Zoetermeer was 3,394 persons per square kilometer. That is therefore considerably higher than the Dutch average. Well, who wouldn’t want to live in our city?

To close this article completely, you will get one last fact: with the surface area of ​​the municipality of Zoetermeer, we fit approximately 1,130 times in the surface area of ​​the Netherlands. So, now your knowledge about our city is certainly not superficial anymore…

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