Groningen-Assen metropolitan area
The Groningen-Assen metropolitan area includes the key cities of Groningen (230,000 inhabitants) and Assen (67,000 inhabitants) as well as the surrounding municipalities. Altogether it had over half a million inhabitants in 2018.
The airport of the region is Groningen Airport Eelde.
The metropolitan region
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
! rowspan=2 | Municipality ! colspan=2 | Nos. of inhabitants |
| 01-01-2016
! 31-05-2018 |
|---|
| style="text-align:left" | Assen
| 67,061 | 67,776 |
| style="text-align:left" | Bedum
| 10,433 | 10,438 |
| style="text-align:left" | Groningen
| 201,200 | 202,332 |
| style="text-align:left" | Haren
| 19,076 | 19,895 |
| style="text-align:left" | Leek
| 19,536 | 19,680 |
| style="text-align:left" | Midden-GroningenThe municipalities Hoogezand-Sappemeer and Slochteren, merged in 2018
| n/aHoogezand-Sappemeer 34.177; Slochteren 15.450. | 60,953 |
| style="text-align:left" | Noordenveld
| 31,039 | 31,353 |
| style="text-align:left" | Ten Boer
| 7,352 | 7,275 |
| style="text-align:left" | Tynaarlo
| 32,804 | 33,532 |
| style="text-align:left" | Winsum
| 13,633 | 13,552 |
| style="text-align:left" | Zuidhorn
| 18,794 | 18,921 |
| Total
! 470,555 ! 505,853 |