Zoetermeer is a city in the western
Netherlands, in the province of
South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2013 this had grown to 123,328, making it the third largest population centre in the province of
South Holland, after
Rotterdam and
The Hague. It is part of the
Haaglanden conurbation.