South Holland

This article is about the province of the Netherlands. For the town in the United States, see South Holland, Illinois; for the district of Lincolnshire, see South Holland, England
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South Holland (Dutch Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country on the North Sea coast. It is one of the most densely populated and industrialised of the provinces. Neighbouring provinces are Zeeland to the southwest, Noord Brabant to the southeast, Gelderland to the east, Utrecht to the northeast and Noord-Holland to the north.

It contains the major cities of The Hague (Den Haag or 's-Gravenhage) (the seat of government of the country and the seat of the International Court of Justice) and Rotterdam. Leiden, Delft and Gouda have town centers with many 17th-century buildings. Rotterdam has one of the world's largest harbours. Zoetermeer is a very new city, most of it is created in the year 1970.

South Holland makes up one region of the International Standards Organisation world region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL-ZH.

Rivers and other bodies of water include Nieuwe Maas, Nieuwe Waterweg, Oude Maas, Haringvliet, Hollands Diep.

Contents
1 Municipalities
2 Links to municipalities arranged according to location
3 Islands
4 Subdivisions
5 External links

Municipalities

South Holland is divided into 86 municipalities) (before 2004: 91) (here with shopping evenings in parentheses, and links to maps in brackets):

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Map of South Holland with numbered municipalities

  1. Alblasserdam [1]
  2. Albrandswaard [2]
  3. Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen: fr) [3]
  4. Alphen aan den Rijn (fr) [4]
  5. Barendrecht [5]
  6. Bergambacht [6]
  7. Bergschenhoek [7]
  8. Berkel en Rodenrijs [8]
  9. Bernisse [9]
  10. Binnenmaas
  11. Bleiswijk [10]
  12. Bodegraven [11]
  13. Boskoop [12]
  14. Brielle [13]
  15. Capelle aan den IJssel [14]
  16. Cromstrijen [15]
  17. Delft (fr) [16]
  18. Den Haag - including Scheveningen (th)
  19. Dirksland [17]
  20. Dordrecht [18]
  21. Giessenlanden [19]
  22. Goedereede [20]
  23. Gorinchem [21]
  24. Gouda [22]
  25. Graafstroom
  26. 's-Gravendeel
  27. Hardinxveld-Giessendam [23]
  28. Hellevoetsluis [24]
  29. Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht [25]
  30. Hillegom (th) [26]
  31. Jacobswoude [27]
  32. Katwijk (th, except Hoornes and Rijnsoever: fr) [28]
  33. Korendijk [29]
  34. Krimpen aan den IJssel [30]
  35. Leerdam [31]
  36. Leiden (th, except Merenwijk: fr) [32]
  37. Leiderdorp (fr) [33]
  38. Leidschendam-Voorburg [34]
  39. Liemeer [35]
  40. Liesveld
  41. Lisse (th) [36]
  42. Maassluis [37]
  43. Middelharnis [38]
  44. Midden-Delfland (until 2004 Maasland and Schipluiden}
  45. Moordrecht [39]
  46. Nederlek [40]
  47. Nieuw-Lekkerland [41]
  48. Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel [42]
  49. Nieuwkoop [43]
  50. Noordwijk (th) [44]
  51. Noordwijkerhout (fr) [45]
  52. Oegstgeest (fr) [46]
  53. Oostflakkee [47]
  54. Oud-Beijerland [48]
  55. Ouderkerk [49]
  56. Papendrecht [50]
  57. Pijnacker-Nootdorp (Nootdorp: fr)
  58. Reeuwijk [51]
  59. Ridderkerk [52]
  60. Rijnsburg (fr) [53]
  61. Rijnwoude [54]
  62. Rijswijk [55]
  63. Rotterdam - including Hoek van Holland (fr)
  64. Rozenburg [56]
  65. Sassenheim (th)
  66. Schiedam [57]
  67. Schoonhoven [58]
  68. Sliedrecht [59]
  69. Spijkenisse [60]
  70. Strijen [61]
  71. Ter Aar [62]
  72. Valkenburg (fr)
  73. Vlaardingen [63]
  74. Vlist [64]
  75. Voorhout (fr)
  76. Voorschoten (fr) [65]
  77. Waddinxveen [66]
  78. Warmond
  79. Wassenaar [67]
  80. Westland (until 2004 De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk and Wateringen)
  81. Westvoorne [68]
  82. Zederik [69]
  83. Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle [70]
  84. Zoetermeer (th) [71]
  85. Zoeterwoude [72]
  86. Zwijndrecht - including Heerjansdam [73], [74]

On 1 January 2004 the municipalities De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk and Wateringen have been merged to a new municipality Westland, and Maasland and Schipluiden to another one, Midden-Delfland.

Possibly Sassenheim, Voorhout and Warmond will be merged in the future.

Links to municipalities arranged according to location

(please add more municipalities) 

                    Hillegom
                  Lisse
           Noordwijk
       Katwijk
          Leiden              Alphen aan den Rijn 
  Wassenaar Voorschoten                          Bodegraven
           Leidschendam-Voorburg
 The Hague Zoetermeer                   Gouda
    Rijswijk Nootdorp
        Delft            Capelle aan den IJssel
 Westland Vlaardingen Schiedam Rotterdam
                            Barendrecht
                             Zwijndrecht
                              Dordrecht Sliedrecht Gorinchem

Islands

(from north to south and from west to east, with municipalities)

Subdivisions

There are four official regions [97]:

The term Zuidvleugel refers to a large part of the province ([109], [110], p. 13):

External links

These maps are not quite up-to-date: they do not yet reflect that Heerjansdam has merged into Zwijndrecht.

Entries for South Holland in worldwide gazetteers:
Alexandria Digital Library | Getty Thesaurus | ESRI | Falling Rain | Tageo | World Gazetteer



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Drenthe | Flevoland | Friesland | Gelderland | Groningen | Limburg | North Brabant | North Holland | Overijssel | South Holland | Utrecht | Zeeland

See also: South Holland, 's-Gravendeel, 1 January, 2004, Alblasserdam, Albrandswaard, Alkemade, Alphen aan den Rijn