According to the municipal registry, Amsterdam is the most multicultural city in the world.On 1 January 177 nationalities were registered as resident of the Dutch Capital.
Amsterdam is leading in the number of nationalities. The second most international city in the world is Antwerp (Belgium), with residents holding 164 different nationalities. New York has registered 150 nationalities, making it the third most international city in the world.
Amsterdam has a total number of 743.104 residents (that is about 20 times smaller than the New York population!). Holders of a Dutch passport still the form the majority: 532,548 people. Another 123,204 people hold two passports, among them a Dutch one. In 2006 one new nationality was registered in Amsterdam: Malawian. The biggest Amsterdam minority groups are Moroccans(64,588), Turkish(37,421), British (10,244), German (6,670) and Surinamese (5,609).
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4 comments:
Very cool statistics! How did you find them? Just happened to be browsing through the municipal registry in your free time?
No, I don't have time for that. But the Amsterdam Municipality (Dienst Persoongegevens) has issued this press release. It was in several Dutch news papers (Trouw, De Pers...) But I haven't come across a foreign paper publishing it. So I thought this might be interesting to do an English language post on.
London has over 270 nationalities. So London is the world's most international city.
Hey Anonymous,
I'm sure that London must be among the most internati0 onal cities in the world, considering the fact that it is the financial center of the world. However, there are only 195 countries in the world. So unless you count sub-state nationalities, 270 nationalities would be over stated. In any case the Amsterdam stats only take into account different countries.
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