Talk:Geography of the Netherlands

Delft issue
While you maybe right that 'some surveys' include Delft in the The Hague large agglomeration, the sources provided at the top of the list do not include it. Based on these sources Delft cannot be listed. If there are other sources that explciitly include Delft, these should be used, instead of the current ones. This does however raise the point how well-defined the agglomerations are when different surveys arrive at different conclusions. I would suggest that we make a short introduction stating that there is general agreement, but that some small differences between surveys (and probably institutes) exist. That this does not matter for the gist of the argument and that we will adopt the agglomeration definition of CBS / NIDI or whatever relevant Dutch institute we can come up with. Does that sound ok? Arnoutf (talk) 11:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The list I have used should correspond exactly to the list of Grootstedelijke agglomeraties en het peri-urbane gebied, not including Delft. You are right. This source provided our data, extracted from <2004k4v4p037art.pdf>, on p.46. Ad43 (talk) 11:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * While I had some trouble finding the 2004 document, I located a newer version of the map and list from 2007, perhaps useful to know. Arnoutf (talk) 11:17, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this clustering is basicly or completely the same. Underlying article is: Werken in het stadsgewest: herkomst en bestemming van forensen, by Mathieu Vliegen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad43 (talk • contribs) 11:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Largest Cities
For some reason Emmen was mentioned in this list, which is wrong. The number of inhabitants for the city of Emmen is around 55000. The municipality has 100000+. NitroX infinity (talk) 10:22, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

European Netherlands OR the constituent country of the kingdom?
The first sentence currently links to the Netherlands, which is the article on the main constituent country of the the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This constituent country includes the BES islands. However, the present article elusively provides its content for the European part of the Netherlands excluding the BES islands.

Since I cannot change the whole article at once, I will for now simply fix this problem by stating which Netherlands is meant (i.e., mainland) in the lead sentence. However, I think that conversely, the article should be about the Netherlands and not just its mainland. This will require a lot of work (e.g., the highest mountain is on Saba).

Before I start with such a makeover (if I ever find the time), I wanted to hear second thoughts:
 * 1) Do you agree that before I fixed the opening line, there was a factual error as explained above?
 * 2) Do you think this article should be about the constituent country, on which there is the Wikipedia country article, or on the mainland only?

I look forward to receiving your input. ˜˜˜˜

Requested move 31 August 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ASUKITE  14:28, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Geography of the European Netherlands → Geography of the Netherlands – First of all it is a common name of the subject, Geography of the Netherlands, please check out any search, plain google, scholars, books etc. It is also creates a confusion, see the section European Netherlands OR the constituent country of the kingdom? directly above. For Denmark the article's titles is Geography of Denmark with a hatnote: ''This article is about Denmark proper. For the geography of the Danish Kingdom's autonomous territories, see Geography of the Faroe Islands and Geography of Greenland.'' For France the article's titles is Geography of France and not Geography of Metropolitan France or Geography of European France. Dgvby (talk) 08:19, 31 August 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:22, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom Hey man im josh (talk) 12:19, 31 August 2022 (UTC)