South Holland

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Province of South Holland
Provincie Zuid-Holland


Flag	Coat of Arms

Capital

The Hague

Queen's Commissioner

J. (Jan) Franssen

Religion (1999)

Protestant 24%
Roman Catholic 17%

Area
• Land
• Water

2.818 km² (5th)
585 km²

Population (2006)
• Total
• Density

3.458.875 (1st)
1.227/km² (1st)

Anthem

Lied van Zuid-Holland

ISO

NL-ZH

Official website

www.zuid-holland.nl

Map of the Netherlands, with red dots marking the capitals of the provinces and black dots marking other notable cities

South Holland (Dutch: Zuid-Holland (help·info)) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country on the North Sea coast. It is the most densely populated and industrialised of the Dutch provinces. Neighbouring provinces are Zeeland to the southwest, North Brabant to the southeast, Gelderland to the east, Utrecht to the northeast and North 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. Katwijk has its city center situated near the beach. Rotterdam has one of the world's largest harbours. Zoetermeer is a very new city, most of it was developed in 1970. Other New Towns are Capelle aan den IJssel, Hellevoetsluis and Spijkenisse, all three situated in the vicinity of Rotterdam.

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

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

1 History
2 Municipalities
3 Links to municipalities arranged according to location
4 Islands
5 Subdivisions
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] History

The province South Holland was formed in 1840, when the province Holland was split into northern (North Holland) and southern parts. Since then, South Holland has ceded three municipalities to the province of Utrecht: Oudewater in 1970, Woerden in 1989, and Vianen in 2002.

[edit] Municipalities

South Holland is divided into 72 municipalities (before 2006: 86, before 2007: 77) (here with shopping evenings in parentheses, and links to maps in brackets):

Map of South Holland with numbered municipalities (note that some former municipalities still have their own number on this map and in the list)

Bulb fields in Lisse

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

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

On 1 January 2006 Sassenheim, Voorhout and Warmond were merged into Teylingen, and Rijnsburg and Valkenburg were merged into Katwijk.

On 1 January 2007 Ter Aar and Liemeer were merged into Nieuwkoop, Bleiswijk, Berkel en Rodenrijs and Bergschenhoek were merged into a new municipallity Lansingerland and 's-Gravendeel was merged into Binnenmaas.

[edit] Links to municipalities arranged according to location

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

[edit] Islands

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

Rozenburg
- Rozenburg [69]
- part of Rotterdam (Botlek [70], Europoort [71], Maasvlakte [72])
IJsselmonde
- part of Rotterdam
- Barendrecht [73]
- Ridderkerk [74]
- Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht [75]
- Zwijndrecht [76], [77]
Voorne-Putten
- Westvoorne [78]
- Brielle [79]
- Hellevoetsluis [80]
- Bernisse [81]
- Spijkenisse [82]
Hoeksche Waard
- Oud-Beijerland [83]
- Binnenmaas
- part of Korendijk [84]
- Cromstrijen [85]
- Strijen [86]
Eiland van Dordrecht [87]
- Dordrecht
Goeree-Overflakkee [88]
Tiengemeten
- part of Korendijk [89]

[edit] Subdivisions

There are four official regions [90]:

Zuid-Holland Zuid [91]
- Drechtsteden [92]
  - Alblasserdam, Dordrecht, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Papendrecht, Sliedrecht, Zwijndrecht
- the rest of the Hoeksche Waard (see above) and Tiengemeten
- Goeree Overflakkee (see above)
Zuid-Holland West
- Haaglanden [93], w:nl:Stadsgewest Haaglanden;
  - Delft, Den Haag, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Midden-Delfland, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Rijswijk, Wassenaar, Westland, Zoetermeer.
- Leidse regio [94]; for a little map showing the municipalities see [95], p.4);
  - Alkemade, Leiden, Leiderdorp, Oegstgeest, Voorschoten, Zoeterwoude
- Duin- en Bollenstreek [96]; for a little map showing the municipalities see the link above;
  - Hillegom, Katwijk, Lisse, Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, Teylingen
Zuid-Holland Oost (Rijn&Gouwestreek [97] + De Waarden) [98]; see also Midden-Holland [99]
- Krimpenerwaard
  - Bergambacht, Nederlek, Schoonhoven, Vlist, Ouderkerk
- Alblasserwaard-Vijfheerenlanden
  - Giessenlanden, Gorinchem, Graafstroom, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Leerdam, Liesveld, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zederik.
- Rijnstreek
  - Alphen aan den Rijn, Jacobswoude, Nieuwkoop, Rijnwoude
- Gouwestreek
  - Bodegraven, Boskoop, Gouda, Moordrecht, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Reeuwijk, Waddinxveen, Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle
Rijnmond [100], also called Stadsregio Rotterdam [101]; see also w:nl:Stadsregio Rotterdam
- Albrandswaard, Barendrecht, Bernisse, Brielle, Capelle aan den IJssel, Hellevoetsluis, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Lansingerland, Maassluis, Ridderkerk, Rotterdam, Rozenburg, Schiedam, Spijkenisse, Vlaardingen, Westvoorne