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Leiden

city and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands
Organization municipality_of_the_netherlands Q43631

Facts

35 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of the Netherlands, city, place with town rights and privileges, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands[20][21][22]
Official website
gemeente.leiden.nl[40]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata https://gemeente.leiden.nl/ ROR https://www.visitleiden.nl/nl edition 2026-09-26 · cc0-1.0+geonames-cc-by-4.0 ↗
Native label
Leiden
Official name
Leiden

Status and dates

Replaces
Polder Marendijk, Pesthuispolder, Rodenburger- en Cronesteinsche Polder, De Slagh of Groote en Kleine Stadspolder, Kikkerpolder

Location

Country
Netherlands, Dutch Republic[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.160°, 4.490°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
County of Holland, South Holland[4]
Postal code
2300–2334[36]

Relations

Member of
International Cities of Refuge Network, Wikidata item[2][3]
More facts +25
Award received
Wateler Peace Prize[1]
Capital of
Wikidata item, Wikidata item
Archives at
Gemeentearchief Leiden, Heritage Leiden and Region[38][39]
Area
+23.16
Coat of arms
coat of arms of Leiden[35]
Demonym
Leidenaar, Leidenčan, Leidenčanka, لَيْدَنِيٌّ, لَيْدَنِيَّةٌ
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Topographia Circuli Burgundici, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Sytin Military Encyclopedia
Different from
Lugudunum Batavorum
Elevation above sea level
+0
Flag
flag of Leiden[31]
Head of government
Henri Lenferink[19]
History of topic
history of Leiden, timeline of Leiden
List of monuments
list of rijksmonuments in Leiden, list of war memorials in Leiden
Local dialing code
071[37]
Located in or next to body of water
Zijl, Oude Rijn, Nieuwe Rijn, Rijnsburgersingel, Rhine–Schie Canal, Witte Singel, Oude Singel, Rapenburg, Zoeterwoudsesingel, Morssingel, Vliet, Zijlsingel, Herengracht[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Number of households
62k (62k–66k, n=6)
Number of viewers/listeners
+289616
Office held by head of government
mayor of Leiden
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory, Wikiproject Memory of the Designed Landscape
P14586
78403
Phone number
+31071
Population
124k (29k–125k, n=26)[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]
Shares border with
Teylingen, Leiderdorp, Katwijk, Wassenaar, Zoeterwoude, Oegstgeest, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Voorschoten[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Significant event
Siege of Leiden, Siege of Leiden
Twinned administrative body
Krefeld, Oxford, Toruń[32][33][34]
🏷️ Also known as
en Leyden en Leiden ar ليدن ar لَيْدَنُ cs Leyden da Leyden de Leyden el Λάιντεν el Λέιντεν en-gb Leyden fa لایدن fa لیدن fr Leide fr Leiden fr Leyde fr Leyden he ליידן hi लेइडेन hu Lejda hu Leyden
🔖 Identifiers · 91
ROR ID
04g1f3s05
ISNI
0000000404053310, 0000000115404997
VIAF cluster ID
143615766
Library of Congress authority ID
n79041670
GND ID
4074118-7
GRID ID
grid.491345.e
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
00 1865 Leiden - Netherlands.jpg ↗
Alvin ID
alvin-place:604
Amsterdam code
10702
ArchINFORM location ID
7841
BAG residence ID
2088
BHCL UUID
3318ab02-edd2-4db6-b5dc-dda60d8ee6b2
Show all 91 identifiers +79
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11945024w
CBS municipality code
0546
Comic Vine ID
4020-61735
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/Netherlands/South_Holland/Leiden/
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q43631
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
0369b341-2195-4802-a83b-10ead61d5a8b, 33b205a7-5df9-4359-9e7f-c76b6778ee0d, 3d8ba622-0de6-4050-8133-3cad77e6d8a7
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
143129
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Leiden
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
leyde
FAST ID
1204927
Facebook location ID
111247065566297
Facebook username
gemeenteleiden
FactGrid item ID
Sussex
Freebase ID
/m/0cl8c
GeoNames ID
2751772, 2751773
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7006809
GitHub topic
leiden
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID
Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
Google+ ID
117565645184346612043
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
leiden
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0036854
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Leiden
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2137587
Grove Art Online ID
T050143
HDS ID
006615
Harper's tag
leiden-netherlands
Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
LEIDENJO22GD
INaturalist place ID
17477
IdRef ID
02639104X
Instagram username
gemeenteleiden
Interlingual Index ID
i83745
Joconde location ID
T84-3492
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
4296
KvK company ID
27364192
Latin Place Names ID
l/lugduni-batauorum
Lex ID
Leiden
LinkedIn company or organization ID
gemeente-leiden
Museum-digital place ID
5203
MusicBrainz area ID
3556da0f-38ad-4f6c-b5dc-7aa99a168203
NL CR AUT ID
ge132317
NSK (VIAF) ID
000688696
NSK ID
981005661149809366
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/7C4A40BB-FE40-4A39-A8D1-0F9E7C8DE6AB
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001136900
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559520605171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX459163
OSM Name Suggestion Index ID
gemeenteleiden-400e31
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3931419
Open Library subject ID
place:leiden_(netherlands)
OpenCorporates ID
nl/27364192
OpenStreetMap node ID
235865586
OpenStreetMap relation ID
444400, 295092
Pinakes city ID
326
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
ライデン
Provenio UUID
3cacdcbe-56b4-404f-9f70-4383583ffff0
Quora topic ID
Leiden-South-Holland-Netherlands
RKD thesaurus ID
97631, 11
SBN place ID
BVEL001748
SNARC ID
Günter Grünwald
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID
480
Scilit organization ID
81313
Subreddit
leiden
TOOI identifier
gemeente/gm0546
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID
DD64Z6W6RNHLPBD5HUBHAY52JE
Topic's main category
Category:Leiden
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
leida
UN/LOCODE
NLLID
Vatican Library VcBA ID
494/64167
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
leiden
WOEID
731208
Wellcome Collection concept ID
dq78ta93
Who's on First ID
101751833
WikiKids ID
Leiden
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08970850-n
X (Twitter) username
gemeenteleiden
YSO ID
178125
Yale LUX ID
place/0f8dfd14-e8ee-48fc-a375-3cb8186e0d8d
YouTube channel ID
UC942LSO1P1RQ77sdnQTke9g
YouTube handle
leidencitycouncil
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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Credit
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Bronze
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Source
OpenAlex
Edition
20260927 · as of 2026-09-27
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CC0 1.0
Credit
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Bronze
not in the catalog
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🔗 Connections
People who died here 268
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Willem Einthoven, Jan Hendrik Oort, Jan Steen, Herman Boerhaave, Willebrord Snellius, Willem de Sitter, Ludolph van Ceulen +260 more
People born here 249
Rembrandt, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Armin van Buuren, Jan Steen, Willebrord Snellius, Jan van Goyen, Joel Mokyr, Nicolás Joseph Jacquin +241 more
← Work location 236
Rembrandt, Rembrandt, Hendrik Lorentz, J. M. W. Turner, Oliver Goldsmith, August Macke, Theo van Doesburg, John Everett Millais +228 more
← Headquarters location 49
Leiden University, De Stijl, Bilderberg Group, Airbus, Brill, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Wereldmuseum Leiden +41 more
Contained subdivisions 43
Leiden University, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Observatory, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden University Library, Wereldmuseum Leiden, Temple of Taffeh, Hortus botanicus Leiden +35 more
Residents 24
Herman Boerhaave, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Justus Lipsius, Ewine van Dishoeck, Diederik Samsom, Gegard Mousasi, Karolien Florijn +16 more
← Place of publication 14
Two New Sciences, Mare Liberum, Blumea, Classes plantarum, Critica Botanica, Fauna Japonica, Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits, Index Islamicus +6 more
Located in this place 12
Leiden University, Nagarakretagama, Leiden University Library, Siege of Leiden, Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden, De Valk, Leiden City Hall, Leiden University Medical Center +4 more
← Category combines topics 9
Category:People from Leiden, Category:Births in Leiden, Category:Deaths in Leiden, Category:Buildings and structures in Leiden, Category:Sport in Leiden, Category:Education in Leiden, Category:Burials in Leiden, Category:Churches in Leiden +1 more
Shares border with 8
Katwijk, Wassenaar, Oegstgeest, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Leiderdorp, Teylingen, Voorschoten, Zoeterwoude
← Shares border with 8
Katwijk, Wassenaar, Oegstgeest, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Leiderdorp, Teylingen, Voorschoten, Zoeterwoude
Located in or next to body of water 5
Oude Rijn, Vliet, Nieuwe Rijn, Rhine–Schie Canal, Zijl
Named after 4
Leyden cheese, Leiden Centraal railway station, Leidse Rijn, Leiden Collection
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Twinned administrative body 3
Oxford, Toruń, Krefeld
← Terminus location 3
N11 road, Vliet, Rhine–Schie Canal
← Twinned administrative body 3
Oxford, Toruń, Krefeld
Country 2
Netherlands, Dutch Republic
Instance of 2
city, municipality of the Netherlands
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
South Holland, County of Holland
← Location of creation 2
Leyden cheese, Io Vivat
← Primary destinations 2
A4 motorway, N11 road
Award received 1
Wateler Peace Prize
Belongs to 1
Randstad
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Leiden
Category for people buried here 1
Category:Burials in Leiden
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Leiden
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Leiden
Different from 1
Lugudunum Batavorum
Employees / affiliates 1
Willem Marinus Dudok
FactGrid item ID 1
Sussex
History of topic 1
history of Leiden
Member of 1
International Cities of Refuge Network
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Significant event 1
Siege of Leiden
Topic's main category 1
Category:Leiden
← Affiliated with 1
Mara van der Meulen
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Leiden
← Collection 1
Homunculus Loxodontus
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
South Holland
← Different from 1
Lugudunum Batavorum
← Facet of 1
history of Leiden
← FactGrid item ID 1
Wangenheim
← Located on street 1
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
← Operating area 1
Studenten voor Leiden
← Start point 1
1978 Tour de France
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Leiden is a municipality of the Netherlands.[1][2][3][4] Its population was 124k (2021).[5]

It has an area of 23.2.[6] Its elevation is 0.

Body

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Leiden include Leyden cheese[53]; Leiden Centraal railway station[54], a railway station[55], in Netherlands[56]; Leiden Collection[57], an art collection[58], in United States[59], founded in 2000[60]; and Leidse Rijn[61], a canal[62], in Netherlands[63].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Leiden include Leyden cheese[53]; Leiden Centraal railway station[54], a railway station[55], in Netherlands[56]; Leiden Collection[57], an art collection[58], in United States[59], founded in 2000[60]; and Leidse Rijn[61], a canal[62], in Netherlands[63].

FAQs

What awards did Leiden receive?

Honors received include Wateler Peace Prize[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

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Located in the administrative territorial entity Netherlands emerging0.662 independent sources

evidence “van Griethuysen, Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, Netherlands.” medscape.com · 2026-11-05 · read source

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  1. 2d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → gemeenteleiden-400e31
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    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: gemeenteleiden-400e31, #temporary_batch_1793752567616; Useless: a value is not referenced by the property's own associated item."
  2. 2d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → gemeenteleiden-400e31
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  3. 8w ago · Hannolans · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → International Cities of Refuge Network, Wikidata item
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Govdirectory, Wikiproject Memory of the Designed Landscape
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  4. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → leiden-netherlands
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: leiden-netherlands, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289947604|leiden netherlands (#289947604)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  5. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 78403
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14586: 78403, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
  6. 18w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID → leiden
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID: leiden"
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