diff --git a/app.amsterdam.json b/app.amsterdam.json
index da6cc95de7..3b296fae07 100644
--- a/app.amsterdam.json
+++ b/app.amsterdam.json
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     "smallHeight": "29px"
   },
   "map": {
-    "municipality": ["amsterdam", "ouder-amstel"],
+    "municipality": "amsterdam \"ouder-amstel\"",
     "options": {
       "center": [
         52.3731081,
diff --git a/internals/schemas/app.schema.json b/internals/schemas/app.schema.json
index ea1d4d847e..e1724fc404 100644
--- a/internals/schemas/app.schema.json
+++ b/internals/schemas/app.schema.json
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@
       "additionalProperties": false,
       "properties": {
         "municipality": {
+          "description": "Allows to filter address lookup by municipality. For example a value of 'amsterdam' will be used in the following format: `fq=gemeentenaam:(amsterdam)`. Separate multiple municipalities with a space. If a municipality has spaces, surround it by quotes, which in the config will look like `\"boxtel \\\"den bosch\\\"\"`. For more information see https://www.pdok.nl/restful-api/-/article/pdok-locatieserver#/paths/~1suggest/get",
           "type": [
             "string",
             "array"
diff --git a/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.test.tsx b/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.test.tsx
index cfd6ba7057..e76e5c2c22 100644
--- a/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.test.tsx
@@ -71,15 +71,35 @@ describe('components/PDOKAutoSuggest', () => {
     it('should call fetch with municipality', async () => {
       await renderAndSearch('Dam', { municipality: 'amsterdam' })
       expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-        expect.stringContaining(`${municipalityQs}("amsterdam")`),
+        expect.stringContaining(`${municipalityQs}(amsterdam)`),
         expect.objectContaining({ method: 'GET' })
       )
     })
 
-    it('should work with an array for municipality', async () => {
-      await renderAndSearch('Dam', { municipality: ['utrecht', 'amsterdam'] })
+    it('should work with multiple municipalities', async () => {
+      await renderAndSearch('Dam', { municipality: 'utrecht amsterdam' })
       expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-        expect.stringContaining(`${municipalityQs}("utrecht" "amsterdam")`),
+        expect.stringContaining(`${municipalityQs}(utrecht amsterdam)`),
+        expect.objectContaining({ method: 'GET' })
+      )
+    })
+
+    it('should work with quotes and negations', async () => {
+      await renderAndSearch('Dam', {
+        municipality: '"den bosch" -amsterdam',
+      })
+      expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        expect.stringContaining(`${municipalityQs}("den bosch" -amsterdam)`),
+        expect.objectContaining({ method: 'GET' })
+      )
+    })
+
+    it('should ignore an empty string', async () => {
+      await renderAndSearch('Dam', {
+        municipality: '',
+      })
+      expect(fetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        expect.not.stringContaining(municipalityQs),
         expect.objectContaining({ method: 'GET' })
       )
     })
diff --git a/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.tsx b/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.tsx
index e885478d1c..c33e82d705 100644
--- a/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.tsx
+++ b/src/components/PDOKAutoSuggest/PDOKAutoSuggest.tsx
@@ -42,14 +42,8 @@ const PDOKAutoSuggest: FC<PDOKAutoSuggestProps> = ({
   municipality = configuration.map.municipality,
   ...rest
 }) => {
-  const municipalityArray = Array.isArray(municipality)
-    ? municipality
-    : [municipality].filter(Boolean)
-  const municipalityString = municipalityArray
-    .map((item) => `"${item}"`)
-    .join(' ')
   const fq = municipality
-    ? [['fq', `${municipalityFilterName}:(${municipalityString})`]]
+    ? [['fq', `${municipalityFilterName}:(${municipality})`]]
     : []
   // ['fl', '*'], // undocumented; requests all available field values from the API
   const fl = [