Rank your 5 NL cities

Allow me to annoy you with the NL (pop 16,3mln, largest city: 735k)

As if you would know 5 cities well enough to pass your verdict

there's 3 'big' cities, all came to flourish after 1648

Amsterdam
Rotterdam
's Gravenhage

(altogether only 1,75mln)

then there's 4 that rank in the same league, more or less

Utrecht
Arnhem
Groningen
Eindhoven

below is a dozen, in order of importance - more or less:

Nijmegen (oldest city)
Haarlem (hierarchically above Amsterdam)
's Hertogenbosch
Breda
Maastricht
Leiden
Dordrecht
Leeuwarden
Enschede
Zwolle
Apeldoorn
Tilburg
Amersfoort
Alkmaar

loads of historic cities that became significantly less important:

Deventer
Roermond
Franeker
Enkhuizen
Zutphen
Middelburg

plus crap towns, some at even +100k:

Hengelo
Amstelveen
Ede
Spijkenisse
Emmen
Oss
Helmond>