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This is a list of settlements in the province of North Holland, in the Netherlands. Name Municipality Coordinates Aagtdorp: Bergen ... De Noord: Heerhugowaard
North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland, pronounced [ˌnoːrt ˈɦɔlɑnt] ⓘ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea , north of South Holland and Utrecht , and west of Friesland and Flevoland .
The latter, which had been known as Bataafs Brabant (English: Batavian Brabant), changed its name to Noord-Brabant, North Brabant, in 1815 when it became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which also contained (then) South Brabant, a province now in Belgium. This new unified state featured the provinces in their modern form, as non ...
The Provincial Council of North Holland (Dutch: Provinciale Staten van Noord-Holland, pronounced [proːvɪɲˈɕaːlə ˈstaːtə(ɱ) vɑ noːrtˈɦɔlɑnt]), also known as the States of North Holland, is the provincial council of North Holland, Netherlands. It forms the legislative body of the province.
The municipality has just over 73,000 inhabitants and a land area of 20.38 km 2 (7.87 sq mi), making it the third most densely populated municipality in North Holland after Haarlem and Amsterdam. [3] Apart from the city of Hoorn, the municipality includes the villages of Blokker and Zwaag , as well as parts of the hamlets De Bangert [ nl ] , De ...
The subregions (Dutch: streek or landstreek (plural: (land)streken), literally translating to a combination of 'land/country area/region') are non-administrative area in the Netherlands that can be demarcated on grounds of cohesion with regards to culture or landscape.
Haarlem became the provincial capital of North Holland province in the early 19th century. In the mid-19th century, the city's economy slowly started to improve. New factories opened, and a number of large industrial companies were founded in Haarlem by Thomas Wilson, Guillaume Jean Poelman, J.B.T. Prévinaire , J.J. Beijnes , Hendrik Figee ...
ISO 3166-2:NL is the entry for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.