North Holland

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Province of North Holland
Provincie Noord-Holland


Flag	Coat of Arms

Capital

Haarlem

Queen's Commissioner

Mr. H.C.J.L. (Harry) Borghouts

Religion (1999)

Protestant 10%
Catholic 20%
Jewish 0,75%

Area
• Land
• Water

2.670 km² (6th)
1.421 km²

Population (2006)
• Total
• Density

2.606.584 (2nd)
976/km² (2nd)

Anthem

Ik houd van het groen in je wei

ISO

NL-NH

Official website

www.noord-holland.nl

Map of the Netherlands, with red dots marking the capitals of the provinces and black dots marking other notable cities

North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland, pronunciation (help·info)) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the northwest part of the country. Its capital is Haarlem. Other cities include the country's capital Amsterdam, Hilversum, Den Helder, Alkmaar, Zaandam and Hoorn.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Municipalities
4 External links

[edit] Geography

North Holland forms a peninsula between the North Sea and the IJsselmeer. More than half of the province consists of reclaimed land in the form of polders and is below sea level. The island of Texel is also part of North Holland.

North Holland makes up one region of the International Organization for Standardization world region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL-NH.

[edit] History

The province North Holland was formed in 1840, when the province Holland was split in to a northern and southern part (South Holland). In 1940, the islands Vlieland and Terschelling were ceded to the province Friesland. In 1950, the former island Urk was ceded to the province Overijssel. In the time of the United Provinces the province of Holland was know as the province of Holland and West-Friesland. This represented the conquest of West-Friesland in the early medieval age. The coat of arms of North-Holland still shows this and is a combination of the coats of Holland and Friesland.