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Holland has a population of 6,583,534 as of November 2019, [1] and a population density of 1203/km 2. The name Holland has frequently been used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. [3] This casual usage is commonly accepted in other countries, and is even employed by many Dutch themselves. [4]
In some languages, Holland is used as the formal name for the Netherlands. However, Holland is a region within the Netherlands that consists of the two provinces of North and South Holland. Formerly these were a single province, and earlier the County of Holland, which included parts of present-day Utrecht.
Holland is an English habitational name from Holland, a division of Lincolnshire, or any of the eight villages in various parts of England so called, from Old English hōh ‘ridge’ + land ‘land’.
Nonetheless, the name "Holland" is still widely used for the Netherlands national football team. [59] [60] The name of the historic County of Holland is currently used as a pars pro toto for the Netherlands. From the 17th century onwards, the County of Holland was the most powerful region in the current Netherlands.
Dutch family names were not required until 1811 when emperor Napoleon annexed the Netherlands; [1] prior to 1811, the use of patronymics was much more common. In Dutch linguistics , many names use certain qualifying words (prepositions) which are positioned between a person's given name and their surname .
In 2012, former U.S. Rep. D. Stephen Holland of Mississippi proposed a name change as a joke to mock his Republican colleagues who he said seemed to want to push anything or anyone Mexican out of ...
Holland, the former name of a rock ‘n’ roll band from Nashville, Tennessee, now known as The Lonely Hearts; Gollandia (or Gollandiya; Russian: Голландия, lit. 'Holland'), Russian rock/blues band; Holland–Dozier–Holland, a songwriting and production team
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