Leiden
City and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands
Also known as Leyden
- Country
- Netherlands(since 1815)
2
Sources- 1.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2018-08-06
- 2.Stated in Bureaulijst NVTL 2026Retrieved 2026-09-10
- , Dutch Republic(1581–1795)
- Netherlands(since 1815)
- Located in
- South Holland(since 1840)
- , County of Holland(1101–1795)
- Population
- 124,093(January 1, 2021)
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Statistics Netherlands“Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021”cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatwerk/2021/31/kerncijfers-wijken-en-buurten-2021
- , 125,099(January 1, 2020)
1
- , 124,899(January 1, 2019)
- +23 more
- 124,093(January 1, 2021)
- Area
- 23.16 km²
1
- 23.16 km²
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Head of government
- Henri Lenferink(since 2003)
- Postal code
- 2300–2334
- Website
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
197 statements · 32% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Number of households
- 66,010(January 1, 2015)
1
- 65,108(January 1, 2014)
1
- 64,280(January 1, 2013)
1
- 63,022(January 1, 2012)
1
- 62,089(January 1, 2011)
1
- 61,524(January 1, 2010)
1
- 66,010(January 1, 2015)
- Native label
- Leiden pronunciation audio: Nl-Leiden.oga
- Official name
- Leiden
- Demonym
- Leidenaar
- Leidenčan
- Leidenčanka
- لَيْدَنِيٌّ applies to part: masculine singular
- لَيْدَنِيَّةٌ applies to part: feminine singular
- Significant event
- Siege of Leiden(1573–1574)
- Siege of Leiden(1481–1481)
- Capital of
- Q111748318(since 1917)
4
Sources- 1.Stated in Q111398425
- 2.Stated in Q111398793
- 3.Stated in Q111524832
- 4.Stated in Q2009334
- Q111691916(since 1917)
3
Sources- 1.Stated in Q111398425
- 2.Stated in Q111398793
- 3.Stated in Q111524832
- Q111748318(since 1917)
- Phone number
- +31071
- Member of
- International Cities of Refuge Network
1
- Q130298019(since 2023)
1
- International Cities of Refuge Network
- Number of viewers/listeners
- 289,616(November 27, 2025) youtube channel id: UC942LSO1P1RQ77sdnQTke9g · youtube handle: leidencitycouncil
1
- 289,616(November 27, 2025) youtube channel id: UC942LSO1P1RQ77sdnQTke9g · youtube handle: leidencitycouncil
On other databases
90 identifiers linking Leiden across the web's reference databases
- Alvin IDalvin-place:604
- Amsterdam code10702
- ArchINFORM location ID7841
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineleiden
- BAG residence ID2088
- BHCL UUID3318ab02-edd2-4db6-b5dc-dda60d8ee6b2
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11945024w
- CBS municipality code0546
- Comic Vine ID4020-61735
- Curlie IDRegional/Europe/Netherlands/South_Holland/Leiden/
- Data Commons IDwikidataId/Q43631
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID0369b341-2195-4802-a83b-10ead61d5a8b
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID143129
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Leiden
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDleyde
- Facebook location ID111247065566297
- Facebook usernamegemeenteleiden
- FactGrid item IDQ23346
- FAST ID1204927
- Freebase ID/m/0cl8c
- GeoNames ID2751772
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7006809
- GitHub topicleiden
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online IDLeiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
- GND ID4074118-7
- Google+ ID117565645184346612043
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDleiden
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0036854
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDLeiden
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2137587
- GRID IDgrid.491345.e
- Grove Art Online IDT050143
- Harper's tagleiden-netherlands
- HDS ID006615
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) IDLEIDENJO22GD
- IdRef ID02639104X
- INaturalist place ID17477
- Instagram usernamegemeenteleiden
- Interlingual Index IDi83745
- ISNI0000000404053310
- J9U entity ID987007559520605171
- Joconde location IDT84-3492
- KSW place ID78403
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID4296
- KvK company ID27364192
- Latin Place Names IDl/lugduni-batauorum
- Lex IDLeiden
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79041670
- LinkedIn company or organization IDgemeente-leiden
- Museum-digital place ID5203
- MusicBrainz area ID3556da0f-38ad-4f6c-b5dc-7aa99a168203
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/7C4A40BB-FE40-4A39-A8D1-0F9E7C8DE6AB
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001136900
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX459163
- NL CR AUT IDge132317
- NSK (VIAF) ID000688696
- NSK ID981005661149809366
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3931419
- Open Library subject IDplace:leiden_(netherlands)
- OpenCorporates organization IDnl/27364192
- OpenStreetMap node ID235865586
- OpenStreetMap relation ID444400
- OSM Name Suggestion Index IDgemeenteleiden-400e31
- Pinakes city ID326
- Pixiv Encyclopedia IDライデン
- Provenio UUID3cacdcbe-56b4-404f-9f70-4383583ffff0
- Quora topic IDLeiden-South-Holland-Netherlands
- RKD thesaurus ID97631
- ROR ID04g1f3s05
- SBN place IDBVEL001748
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID480
- Scilit organization ID81313
- SNARC IDQ45609
- Subredditleiden
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae IDDD64Z6W6RNHLPBD5HUBHAY52JE
- TOOI identifiergemeente/gm0546
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia IDleida
- UN/LOCODENLLID
- Vatican Library VcBA ID494/64167
- VIAF cluster ID143615766
- Wellcome Collection concept IDdq78ta93
- Who's on First ID101751833
- WikiKids IDLeiden
- WOEID731208
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID08970850-n
- X (Twitter) usernamegemeenteleiden
- Yale LUX IDplace/0f8dfd14-e8ee-48fc-a375-3cb8186e0d8d
- YouTube channel IDUC942LSO1P1RQ77sdnQTke9g
- YouTube handleleidencitycouncil
- YSO ID178125