The Westpoort is the main harbour and industrial area of the city of Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 in the Netherlands and is located in the north-western part of the city. It is divided in industrial areas Teleport, Sloterdijk

Sloterdijk (Amsterdam)

Sloterdijk is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Amsterdam, and lies about 3 km northwest of the city centre...

areas I, II and II, De Heining and the harbour area (Havengebied). It is home to over 2.000 companies and an estimated 45.000 people are employed in the area.

Though it is considered to be one of the fifteen stadsdelen

Stadsdeel

A stadsdeel is the name used for city districts in some of the larger municipalities of the Netherlands.Amsterdam calls 7 of its 8 deelgemeenten stadsdeel...

(boroughs) of Amsterdam, unlike the other fourteen, it does not have its own council but is instead governed directly by the central municipal council, this due to the relatively low number of inhabitants of the Westpoort area.