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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the
capital is mandated by the Constitution of the
Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the
government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a
population of 847,176 within the city proper, 1,343,647
in the urban area, and 2,431,000 in the Amsterdam
metropolitan area. The city is located in the province
of North Holland in the west of the country. The
metropolitan area comprises much of the northern part of
the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe,
with a population of approximately 7 million.
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