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There are twelve provinces (Dutch: provincies [proːˈvɪnsis] ⓘ or provinciën [proːˈvɪnsijə(n)] ⓘ; sing. provincie [ˌproːˈvɪnsi] ⓘ) of the Netherlands representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local governments, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.
Zeeland (Dutch: [ˈzeːlɑnt] ⓘ; Zeelandic: Zeêland [ˈzɪəlɑnt]), historically known in English by the exonym Zealand, is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the southwest of the country, borders North Brabant to the east, South Holland to the north, as well as the country of Belgium to ...
Shqip; Simple English ... Pages in category "Provinces of the Netherlands" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect ...
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten). Municipalities are the second-level administrative division in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the central government and they are ruled by a municipal council that is elected every four years.
Province HDI (2022) Very high human development 1 Utrecht: 0.967 2 North Holland: 0.964 3 North Brabant: 0.947 4 South Holland: 0.946 – Netherlands (average) 0.946: 5 Groningen: 0.942 6 Gelderland: 0.936 Limburg: 8 Overijssel: 0.934 9 Flevoland: 0.925 10 Friesland: 0.923 11 Zeeland: 0.922 12 Drenthe: 0.918
South Holland (Dutch: Zuid-Holland [ˌzœyt ˈɦɔlɑnt] ⓘ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.8 million as of January 2023 [2] and a population density of about 1,410/km 2 (3,700/sq mi), making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.
The Dutch word for city is stad (plural: steden). The intermediate category of town does not exist in Dutch, but provinciestad (small city in the province) comes close. Historically, there existed systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place: a stad or dorp. Cities were self-governing and had ...
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities [1] (Dutch: gemeenten [ɣəˈmeːntə(n)] ⓘ; sing. gemeente [ɣəˈmeːntə] ⓘ) and three special municipalities (Dutch: bijzondere gemeenten [biˈzɔndərə-]) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean.