{{Short description|none}} {{Refimprove|date=December 2009}} A '''stadsdeel''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈstɑtsdeːl|-|nl-stadsdeel.ogg}}; {{pl.|''stadsdelen''}}; {{lit.|city part}}) is the name used for urban or municipality districts in some of the larger municipalities of the Netherlands.
Amsterdam calls 7 of its 8 ''deelgemeenten'' ''stadsdeel''. They form a level of government, both executive (''stadsdeelwethouders'') and legislative (''Stadsdeelraad'', a council elected by the inhabitants), and can therefore be regarded as boroughs or ''wards''. Until 2010, Amsterdam had 15 deelgemeenten, but the number has been decreased to eight.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amsterdam.nl/gemeente/stadsdelen/1_amsterdam_7/1_amsterdam_7/ |title=Amsterdam.nl - 1 Amsterdam, 7 stadsdelen |access-date=2011-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031132053/http://www.amsterdam.nl/gemeente/stadsdelen/1_amsterdam_7/1_amsterdam_7 |archive-date=2011-10-31 }}</ref>
Eindhoven's ''stadsdelen'' correspond to the former municipalities that fused into that of Eindhoven in 1920; their use to subdivide Eindhoven is standard on traffic signs and in official documents and publications, but they have no political or administrative independence.
==See also== *Gemeente *Deelgemeente *Boroughs of Amsterdam *Boroughs of Rotterdam *Districts of The Hague
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{{Local government in the Netherlands}}
Category:Types of administrative division Category:Boroughs of the Netherlands Category:Dutch words and phrases
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