Municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands)

This article gives a list of current and former municipalities of the Dutch province of Limburg. Limburg has 33 municipalities.

Position of Limburg within the Netherlands.

Current municipalities

Municipality /
 Coat of arms Main town Location COROP Inhabitants Area
(km²)		 Population centres Image
Beek Beek South Limburg 16,710 21.00
Beesel Reuver Middle Limburg 13,852 29.21
Bergen Bergen North Limburg 13,432 109.42
Brunssum Brunssum South Limburg 29,494 17.29
Echt-Susteren Echt Middle Limburg 32,333 104.60
Eijsden-Margraten Margraten South Limburg 24,839 78.46
Gennep Gennep North Limburg 17,104 50.40
Gulpen-Wittem Gulpen South Limburg 11,419 20.76
Heerlen Heerlen South Limburg 90,125 45.50
Horst aan de Maas Horst North Limburg 41,786 122.55
Kerkrade Kerkrade South Limburg 47,421 22.17
Landgraaf Landgraaf South Limburg 38,600 24.69
Leudal Heythuysen Middle Limburg 36,787 164.86
Maasgouw Heel & Maasbracht Middle Limburg 24,318 45.81
Maastricht Maastricht South Limburg 117,548 60.06
Meerssen Meerssen South Limburg 19,567 27.71
Mook en Middelaar Mook North Limburg 8,069 18.84
Nederweert Nederweert North Limburg 16,619 101.79
Nuth Nuth South Limburg 15,681 33.17
Onderbanken Schinveld South Limburg 8,082 21.24
Peel en Maas Panningen North Limburg 43,020 161.3
Roerdalen Sint Odiliënberg Middle Limburg 21,298 88.65
Roermond Roermond Middle Limburg 55,176 71.19
Schinnen Schinnen South Limburg 13,504 24.13
Simpelveld Simpelveld South Limburg 10,995 16.03
Sittard-Geleen Geleen South Limburg 96,275 80.62
Stein Stein South Limburg 25,660 22.78
Vaals Vaals South Limburg 9,874 23.90
Valkenburg aan de Geul Valkenburg South Limburg 17,097 36.91
Venlo Venlo North Limburg 100,328 128.44
Venray Venray North Limburg 42,785 146.36
Voerendaal Voerendaal South Limburg 12,711 31.55
Weert Weert North Limburg 48,405 105.44

Former municipalities

Municipality
 Coat of arms Main town Location Population centres Image
Arcen en Velden Arcen Merged into municipality Venlo on 1 January 2010.
Eijsden Eijsden Merged into municipality Eijsden-Margraten on 1 January 2011.
Helden Panningen Merged into the new municipality Peel en Maas on 1 January 2010.
Kessel Kessel Merged into the new municipality Peel en Maas on 1 January 2010.
Linne Linne Merged into the municipality Maasbracht, now itself part of Maasgouw, in 1991.
Maasbracht Maasbracht Merged into the new municipality Maasgouw on 1 January 2007.
Margraten Margraten Merged into the new municipality Eijsden-Margraten on 1 January 2011.
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