Emmen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛmə(n)] ⓘ) is a municipality and town of the province of Drenthe in the northeastern Netherlands.

A planned city, Emmen arose from several small farming and peat-harvesting communities which have dotted the province of Drenthe since the Middle Ages.

Traces of these communities can still be seen in the form of the villages of Westenesch, Noordbarge and Zuidbarge: they have a separate history and layout but are surrounded by the suburbs and the center of Emmen.

Suburbs were built around the old center of Emmen, starting with Emmermeer directly to the north, and followed to the south-east by Angelslo (for which an old village of the same name was demolished), Emmerhout (famed at the time for being separated from the town by an existing forest) to the east, Bargeres, the Rietlanden and Parc Sandur to the south and south-west.

Construction of the last suburb, called Delftlanden, is well underway with many homes already built and people living in the area.

Compared to some 3,000 inhabitants in the nineteenth century, this illustrates Emmen's rapid growth in the past 150 years.

The town's football club FC Emmen plays their home games in De Oude Meerdijk.