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English translation aanzienlijk: anzienlek 'considerable' als: as 'if, when' Boekhorststraat Boekkogststraat (name of a street) Den Haag: De Haag 'The Hague' dialect: dialek 'dialect' Lorentzplein Lorensplèn (name of a square) Randstad: Ranstad 'Randstad' tenslotte: teslotte 'in the end' verschillen: veschille 'differences, to differ'
The city of The Hague, Netherlands, consists of eight districts (stadsdelen, singular stadsdeel), similar to boroughs.Each district is divided into subdistricts (wijken). ...
Wassenaar (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɑsənaːr] ⓘ; population: 26,949 in 2021) is a municipality and town located in the province of South Holland, on the western coast of the Netherlands. An affluent suburb of The Hague , Wassenaar lies 10 km (6 mi) north of that city on the N44/A44 highway near the North Sea coast.
As a second level administrative division municipalities are the third tier of public administration in the Netherlands after the central government and the provinces. [3] [4] The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state, which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law. [5]
Contrary to the city of Den Haag, 's-Hertogenbosch (also known colloquially as (Den Bosch) has decided to retain the more formal orthography of its name for common communication like road signing. Except in all caps, the letter immediately following a word-initial apostrophe is not capitalised. If necessary, the second word is capitalised instead:
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 .
The Hague (/ h eɪ ɡ / HAYG; Dutch: Den Haag [dɛn ˈɦaːx] ⓘ or 's-Gravenhage [ˌsxraːvə(n)ˈɦaːɣə] ⓘ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands.
Haagse Hout (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɦaːxsə ˈɦʌut]; lit. ' Woods of The Hague ') is one of the eight districts of The Hague. This area was originally called Die Haghe Houte, which later became the current Haagse Hout. The district has 45,600 residents as of 2018. [1]