Benelux Map with Provinces and Cantons

The Benelux map has 22 provinces and 12 cantons, plus the Brussels-Capital Region, which makes 35 units. Brussels has no provinces of its own, so the map draws it as a single unit beside Belgium's 10 provinces. By country that gives 11 Belgian units, 12 Dutch provinces and 12 Luxembourg cantons. Flevoland became the 12th Dutch province in 1986, and the Luxembourg cantons became the country's first level when the districts were abolished by the law of 2 September 2015.

Holland is the region made up of two of the 12 Dutch provinces, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland, while the Netherlands is the whole country. Both provinces are on the Benelux map, with Amsterdam in Noord-Holland and The Hague in Zuid-Holland. Together they hold about 6.9 million of the Dutch population (CBS, 2026). The other ten provinces, among them Utrecht, Zeeland and Fryslân, are not part of Holland, and neither are Brabant or Limburg, which are often mistaken for it. A map of Holland alone would color just those two units, and the map of the whole country colors all 12.

The Benelux map has two Limburgs and two Luxembourgs because each name is shared across a border or a level. Limburg is a Belgian province (BE-VLI) with 908,582 people (Statbel, 2026) and a Dutch province (NL-LI) with 1,138,374 (CBS, 2026), and the two touch each other. Luxembourg is a Belgian province (BE-WLX) with 296,370 people (Statbel, 2026), a canton of the Grand Duchy (LU-LU) with 213,766 (STATEC, 2026) and the name of the country itself. Use the codes when you match a table to the map.

Luxembourg has cantons because it is one small state with no provinces, and its cantons became the first level when the three districts were abolished in 2015. Eurostat counts the whole Grand Duchy as a single region at NUTS 1, 2 and 3, so the 12 cantons sit below the NUTS levels, while the Belgian and Dutch provinces are NUTS 2 regions. The gap shows in population: Zeeland, the smallest Dutch province, has 394,538 people (CBS, 2026), against 5,808 in Vianden (STATEC, 2026). Compare cantons with cantons and provinces with provinces.

Zuid-Holland has about 670 times as many people as Vianden, 3,882,708 against 5,808 (CBS and STATEC, 2026). By area, Gelderland is the largest unit with 4,956.06 km² of land (CBS), and Vianden the smallest with 78.52 km² (STATEC). Counting inland and tidal water, Fryslân is larger at 5,753.26 km² (CBS). Among Belgian provinces, Luxembourg is the largest at 4,459.25 km² (Statbel), and Brussels is the smallest Belgian unit at 162.42 km² (Statbel). The Dutch land and total figures differ most in Fryslân, where inland water adds more than 2,400 km² to the 3,325.35 km² of land (CBS).

Belgium's first-level units are the 10 provinces and the Brussels-Capital Region, and the country has no states or counties. It is a federation of three regions, the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region, alongside three language communities. Five provinces lie in each of the Flemish and Walloon regions, and Brussels has none. Statbel publishes the Brussels-Capital Region as a single administrative district, which is how the Benelux map draws it, as one unit beside the 10 provinces.

The free Ultimaps editor opens this map with no account needed. Click a province or canton to color it, or upload a table with one row per unit and its value. Key the two Limburgs and the two Luxembourgs by code, BE-VLI and NL-LI, BE-WLX and LU-LU, because the plain names match neither unit. Brussels takes a row of its own. Add pins and labels, then share the finished map by link or embed it on a website. A free export is a standard PNG with a small Ultimaps credit. High-resolution PNG, SVG and PDF export are Pro features.