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Amsterdam-Centrum

Amsterdam-Centrum is the inner-most borough and historical city centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands, containing the majority of the city's landmarks.

Amsterdam-Centrum
Amsterdam-Centrum · Janwillemvanaalst (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Amsterdam-Centrum is the inner-most borough and historical city centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands, containing the majority of the city's landmarks. Established in 2002, Amsterdam-Centrum was the last area in the city to be granted the status of self-governing borough. The borough is 8.04 km2 and covers the UNESCO-listed Amsterdam canal belt. In 2013, the borough had approximately 85,000 inhabitants, who on average had the second-highest income per household in the city and one of the highest in the country.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Amsterdam-Centrum

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 11 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 56 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 108 km
  • Rotterdam → Amsterdam-Centrum
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €8–11
  • Eindhoven → Amsterdam-Centrum
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €12–17
  • Groningen → Amsterdam-Centrum
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · €18–26
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What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextYou can also take the ferry over the IJ from Amsterdam Centraal to Buiksloterweg in Noord.

From Wikivoyage: Amsterdam/Binnenstad, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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