(Municipality, January 2021; Urban and Metro, May 2014)[4][5]
• Municipality
120,227
• Density
2,147/km2 (5,560/sq mi)
• Urban
277,721
• Metro
≈ 3,500,000
Urban population for Dutch-Belgian region;[6] metropolitan population for Dutch-Belgian-German region.[7]
Demonyms
(Dutch) Maastrichtenaar; (Limb.) Mestreechteneer or "Sjeng" (nickname)
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
6200–6229
Area code
043
Website
www.maastricht.nl
Maastricht (/ˈmɑːstrɪxt/MAH-strikht, US also /mɑːˈstrɪxt/mah-STRIKHT,[8][9][10]Dutch:[maːˈstrɪxt]ⓘ; Limburgish: Mestreech[məˈstʀeːx]; French: Maestricht(archaic); Spanish: Mastrique(archaic)) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the Meuse (Dutch: Maas), at the point where the Jeker joins it. Mount Saint Peter (Sint-Pietersberg) is largely situated within the city's municipal borders. Maastricht is adjacent to the border with Belgium and is part of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, an international metropolis with a population of about 3.9 million, which includes the nearby German and Belgian cities of Aachen, Liège, and Hasselt.
Maastricht developed from a Roman settlement (Trajectum ad Mosam) to a medieval river trade and religious centre. In the 16th century it became a garrison town and in the 19th century an early industrial centre.[11] Today, the city is a thriving cultural and regional hub. It became well known through the Maastricht Treaty and as the birthplace of the euro.[12] Maastricht has 1,677 national heritage buildings (rijksmonumenten), the second highest number in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam. The city is visited by tourists for shopping and recreation, and has a large international student population.
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^"Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^"Bevolkingsontwikkeling; Regionale kerncijfers Nederland" [Regional core figures Netherlands]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
^Including the Belgian municipalities of Lanaken, Riemst and Maasmechelen to the west and Visé to the south.
^Basically, the metropolitan areas of Maastricht, Liège, Hasselt-Genk, Sittard-Geleen, Heerlen-Kerkrade and Aachen-Düren constitute the densely populated urban core of the Meuse–Rhine Euroregion.
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^"Maastricht" (US) and "Maastricht". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020.
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