The Randstad from above: cities in red around a yellow Green Heart, from ESA WorldCover 2021

Land cover at 10 metres from ESA WorldCover 2021, made from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery. In WorldCover's colours, red is built-up, yellow grassland, pink cropland, dark green trees and blue water. Amsterdam is at the top, The Hague and Leiden on the left, Rotterdam bottom left and Utrecht on the right with the forests of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. The yellow middle is the Green Heart, mostly pasture.

Source: ESA WorldCover 2021 v200 (CC BY 4.0), beeld via Microsoft Planetary Computer · opgehaald 25 oktober 2026Open the table Single block

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The Randstad from above: cities in red around a yellow Green Heart, from ESA WorldCover 2021

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