Eindhoven, Netherlands
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From top down, left to right: Skyline of Eindhoven,
at the city centre, Evoluon conference centre, , , Vesteda Tower, Van Abbe Museum, Philips Stadium of PSV Eindhoven, High Tech Campus Eindhoven |
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.svg) Location in North Brabant |
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| Coordinates: 51°26′N 5°29′E / 51.433°N 5.483°ECoordinates: 51°26′N 5°29′E / 51.433°N 5.483°E | |||||||||||
| Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||
| Province | North Brabant | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Body | Municipal council | ||||||||||
| • Mayor | John Jorritsma (VVD) | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Municipality | 88.87 km2 (34.31 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| • Land | 87.72 km2 (33.87 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| • Water | 1.15 km2 (0.44 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 17 m (56 ft) | ||||||||||
| Population (Municipality, February 2017; Urban and Metro, May 2014; Metro region and CMSA, August 2015) | |||||||||||
| • Municipality | 221,402 | ||||||||||
| • Density | 2,524/km2 (6,540/sq mi) | ||||||||||
| • Urban | 337,487 | ||||||||||
| • Metro | 419,045 | ||||||||||
| • Metro region | 755,313 | ||||||||||
| • CMSA | 1,944,588 | ||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Eindhovenaar | ||||||||||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||||||||||
| Postcode | 5600–5658 | ||||||||||
| Area code | 040 | ||||||||||
| Website | www |
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Eindhoven (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛi̯ntɦoːvə(n)]) is a municipality and a city in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams. The Gender was dammed short of the city centre in the 1950s and the Dommel still runs through the city. The city has a population of 223,220 in January 2015, making it the fifth-largest municipality of the Netherlands and the largest in the province of North Brabant.
Neighbouring cities and towns include Asten, Son en Breugel, Nuenen, Geldrop-Mierlo, Heeze-Leende, Waalre, Veldhoven, Eersel, Oirschot and Best. The agglomeration has a population of 337,487. The metropolitan area consists of 419,045 inhabitants. The city region has a population of 753,426. Also, Eindhoven is located in the Brabantse Stedenrij, a combined metropolitan area with about 2 million inhabitants.
The name Eindhoven derives from the contraction of the regional words eind (meaning "last" or "end") and hove (or hoeve, a section of some 14 hectares of land). Toponymically, eind occurs commonly as a prefix and postfix in local place- and streetnames. A "hove" comprised a parcel of land which a local lord might lease to private persons (such as farmers). Given that a string of such parcels existed around Woensel, the name Eindhoven may have originated with the meaning "last hoves on the land of Woensel".
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