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  2. Holland - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Holland (surname) - Wikipedia

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    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’.

  5. Terminology of the Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of Dutch family names - Wikipedia

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    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 .

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    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 ...

  8. Holland (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    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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