page_title: Eindhoven
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Eindhoven / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Topografische kaart van Eindhoven (woonplaats). Resolutie: 300 pixels/km. Kaartbeeld samengesteld uit de open geodata van de Top10NL en Top25namen (Basisregistratie Topografie, Kadaster), Creative Commons BY licentie. Gebouwvlakken uit open geodata BAG extract. Wegen uit de OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap community. Reliëfschaduw uit de Actuele Hoogtekaart AHN2. Samenstelling en kleurenschema: Jan-Willem van Aalst, met QGIS2. Zie ook de Legenda.
context_page_description: Eindhoven is the fifth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country. It had a population of 231,469 in 2019, making it the largest city in the province of North Brabant. Eindhoven was originally located at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender.
  Neighbouring cities and towns include Son en Breugel, Nuenen, Geldrop-Mierlo, Helmond, Heeze-Leende, Waalre, Veldhoven, Eersel, Oirschot and Best. The agglomeration has a population of 337,487. The metropolitan area consists of 419,045 inhabitants. The city region has a population of 753,426. The Brabantse Stedenrij combined metropolitan area has about two million inhabitants.
context_section_description: The villages and city that make up modern Eindhoven were originally built on sandy elevations between the Dommel, Gender and Tongelreep streams. Beginning in the 19th century, the basins of the streams themselves have also been used as housing grounds, resulting in occasional floodings in the city centre. Partly to reduce flooding, the bed of the Gender stream, which flowed directly through the city centre, was dammed off and filled up after the War, and the course of the Dommel was regulated. New ecological and socio-historical insights have led to parts of the Dommel's course being restored to their original states, and plans to have the Gender flow through the centre once again.
  The large-scale housing developments of the 20th century saw residential areas being built on former agricultural lands and woods, former heaths that had been turned into cultivable lands in the 19th century.
  The city is currently divided into seven districts:
  Centrum
  Woensel-Noord
  Woensel-Zuid
  Tongelre
  Stratum
  Gestel
  Strijp
caption: Topographic map of Eindhoven (city), September 2014
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