Amsterdam in numbers
Amsterdam is home to about 942,500 people, and its 165 canals carve the city into some 90 islands. Here is the capital of the Netherlands told through its waterways, its bikes and the Golden Age ring that made it famous.
Enough water to earn the nickname Venice of the North.
The waterways cut the city into some 90 separate pieces of land.
Counts range from about 1,300 to over 1,700, depending on what you call a bridge.
Moored along the canals and the Amstel, with kitchens, bedrooms and all.
Bridges within city limits. Amsterdam beats Venice by far, but Hamburg beats them both.
Sources: city and tourism figures. Counts vary with what is counted (culverts, locks, private bridges).
Seven centuries of building on water, three dates that shaped it.
Count Floris V grants toll freedom to the people living by the dam on the Amstel, the first written mention of Amsterdam.
Work starts on the Herengracht, Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht, ringing the old centre with merchants' houses built on wooden piles.
The 17th-century canal ring inside the Singelgracht joins the UNESCO World Heritage List.