BrabantStad (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbraːbɑntˌstɑt]) is a partnership between the municipalities of Breda, Eindhoven, Helmond, 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg and the province of North Brabant. The region has overlap with the Brabant metropolitan area (Dutch: Brabantse Stedenrij) and the Eindhoven metropolitan region (Dutch: Metropoolregio Eindhoven) and lies within the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen Triangle (ELAT). The partnership aims to form an urban network and to make Brabant explicitly known as a leading knowledge region within Europe. There is cooperation on economic, spatial, social and cultural areas. With a total of 1.5 million people and 20% of the industrial production in the Netherlands is BrabantStad one of the major economical important, metropolitan regions of the Netherlands.