South Holland
- This article is about the province of the Netherlands. For the town in the United States, see South Holland, Illinois; for the district of Lincolnshire, see South Holland, England
South Holland (Dutch Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country on the North Sea coast. It is one of the most densely populated and industrialized of the provinces. Neighbouring provinces are Zeeland to the southwest, Noord Brabant to the southeast, Gelderland to the east, Utrecht to the northeast and Noord-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. Rotterdam has one of the world's largest harbours.
Rivers and other bodies of water include Nieuwe Maas, Nieuwe Waterweg, Oude Maas, Haringvliet, Hollands Diep.
Municipalities
South Holland is divided into 86 municipalities) (before 2004: 91) (here with shopping evenings in parentheses, and links to maps in brackets):
- Alblasserdam
- Albrandswaard
- Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen: fr)
- Alphen aan den Rijn (fr)
- Barendrecht
- Bergambacht
- Bergschenhoek
- Berkel en Rodenrijs
- Bernisse
- Binnenmaas
- Bleiswijk
- Bodegraven
- Boskoop
- Brielle
- Capelle aan den IJssel
- Cromstrijen
- Delft (fr)
- Den Haag - including Scheveningen (th)
- Dirksland
- Dordrecht
- Giessenlanden
- Goedereede
- Gorinchem
- Gouda
- Graafstroom
- 's-Gravendeel
- Hardinxveld-Giessendam
- Hellevoetsluis
- Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
- Hillegom (th)
- Jacobswoude
- Katwijk (th, except Hoornes and Rijnsoever: fr)
- Korendijk
- Krimpen aan den IJssel
- Leerdam
- Leiden (th, except Merenwijk: fr)
- Leiderdorp (fr)
- Leidschendam-Voorburg
- Liemeer
- Liesveld
- Lisse (th)
- Maassluis
- Middelharnis
- Midden-Delfland (until 2004 Maasland and Schipluiden}
- Moordrecht
- Nederlek
- Nieuw-Lekkerland
- Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
- Nieuwkoop
- Noordwijk (th)
- Noordwijkerhout (fr)
- Oegstgeest (fr)
- Oostflakkee
- Oud-Beijerland
- Ouderkerk
- Papendrecht
- Pijnacker-Nootdorp (Nootdorp: fr)
- Reeuwijk
- Ridderkerk
- Rijnsburg (fr)
- Rijnwoude
- Rijswijk
- Rotterdam - including Hoek van Holland (fr)
- Rozenburg
- Sassenheim (th)
- Schiedam
- Schoonhoven
- Sliedrecht
- Spijkenisse
- Strijen
- Ter Aar
- Valkenburg (fr)
- Vlaardingen
- Vlist
- Voorhout (fr)
- Voorschoten (fr)
- Waddinxveen
- Warmond
- Wassenaar
- Westland (until 2004 De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk and Wateringen)
- Westvoorne
- Zederik
- Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle
- Zoetermeer (th)
- Zoeterwoude
- Zwijndrecht - including Heerjansdam ,
On 1 January 2004 the municipalities De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk and Wateringen have been merged to a new municipality Westland, and Maasland and Schipluiden to another one, Midden-Delfland.
Possibly Sassenheim, Voorhout and Warmond will be merged in the future.
Links to municipalities arranged according to location
(please add more municipalities)
Islands
(from north to south and from west to east, with municipalities)
Subdivisions
There are four official regions :
- Zuid-Holland Zuid
- Drechtsteden
- Alblasserdam, Dordrecht, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Papendrecht, Sliedrecht, Zwijndrecht, 's-Gravendeel
- the rest of the Hoeksche Waard (see above) and Tiengemeten
- Goeree Overflakkee (see above)
- Zuid-Holland West
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