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'''Gelderland''' is a province of the Netherlands. Main cities here are [[Arnhem]], which is its capital, and [[Nijmegen]], who form the [[Arnhem-Nijmegen urban area]], the third-largest urban agglomeration in the Netherlands. Other large cities are [[Apeldoorn]] and [[Ede]], and well-known smaller cities like [[Doetinchem]], [[Tiel]], [[Harderwijk]] and [[Zutphen]], which are important regional centres, despite being fairly small. (as a matter of fact; all of the aformentioned cities could fit into the Arnhem-Nijmegen region, and there will still be enough population left to fit the actual cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen in) The only place that is extremely small (35.000 inhabitants) which holds national importance as an education centre, is found in the province as well, it's the college town [[Wageningen]]. This place is so left-wing it's off the scale, probably because university and research centres employ or study 75% of the town's population, plus sizable groups in neighbouring communities.  Geographically speaking, the province can be divided in four distinct areas, which are different both in culture and in surroundings; except for the [[Arnhem-Nijmegen region]], which lies roughly in the central/south part of the province, they are clockwise: [[Rivierengebied]], land of the rivers, [[Veluwe]], land of the woods and heather and [[Achterhoek]], land of farmers and castles.Tiel is by far the main city in [[Rivierengebied]], for the [[Veluwe]], this title goes to both [[Apeldoorn]] and [[Ede]], and for [[Achterhoek]] it's split between [[Doetinchem]] and [[Zutphen]]. {|style="margin: 0 auto;"|<map lat='52.13' lng='5.97' zoom='9' view='0' country='Netherlands' width='730' height='500'/>|} {{Template:Cities Gelderland}} ==Motorways== There are 6 main, and numerous small motorways crossing the province. North-south motorways are [[A2 (Netherlands)|A2]] in the far western part, west of [[Tiel]] and the [[A50 (Netherlands)|A50]] cutting from north to south through the province, connecting the main cities of Gelderland to [[Eindhoven]] and [[Groningen]] / [[Leeuwarden]]. Most important east-west routes are (north to south) the [[A1 (Netherlands)|A1]], [[A12 (Netherlands)|A12]] and [[A15 (Netherlands)|A15]]. [[A1 (Netherlands)|A1]] runs by Apeldoorn, and towards [[Twente]] in the east, and [[Amsterdam]] in the west, [[A12 (Netherlands)|A12]] connects [[Germany]] and [[Den Haag]], and passes in Gelderland by [[Arnhem]] and [[Ede]], and [[A15 (Netherlands)|A15]] connects [[Nijmegen]] with [[Rotterdam]], and passes by [[Nijmegen]] and [[Tiel]]. Then there is the [[A28 (Netherlands)|A28]] which runs southwest to northeast in the province, and connects to [[A1 (Netherlands)|A1]] by [[Hoevelaken]] near the [[:Category:Utrecht|Utrecht]] city of [[Amersfoort]] and [[A50 (Netherlands)|A50]] by [[Hattem]], near the [[Overijssel]] city of [[Zwolle]].
You find the cities of [[Arnhem]], [[Nijmegen]] or [[Apeldoorn]] there.
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[[Category:Netherlands]]
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