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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.
Map of the Netherlands. This is a list of municipalities in the Netherlands which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
It is located in the new city centre, and incorporates the council chamber, the main public library, as well as cafés, exhibition spaces, and a wedding room.
The city of The Hague, Netherlands, consists of eight districts (stadsdelen, singular stadsdeel), similar to boroughs.Each district is divided into subdistricts (wijken). ...
Ockenburgh Estate Former youth hostel on Ockenburgh Estate. Excavations show that there were already inhabitants in the Bronze Age in Ockenburgh. However, the name Ockenburg appears in literature for the first time around 1650, when the poet and physician Jacob Westerbaen bought the savage dune landscape south of The Hague and founded the Ockenburgh estate - Jacob's 'Eden in the Duyn'. [6]
www.lv.nl Leidschendam-Voorburg ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˌlɛitsə(n)dɑɱˈvoːrbʏr(ə)x] ⓘ ) is a municipality in the Western Netherlands , in the province of South Holland , just northeast of The Hague .
The Dutch Israelite Religious Community of The Hague (Dutch: Nederlands Israëlitische Gemeente Den Haag; NIG Den Haag) is the Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish community in The Hague and is a member of the Nederlands-Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap (English: Dutch Israelite Religious Community) (NIK). [2]
With a population of 40,222 and an area of 4.3 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi), [1] it is the smallest and least populous of the city's eight districts. The district is officially divided into three neighbourhoods: Laakkwartier, Spoorwijk and Binckhorst. [2] The Hague University of Applied Sciences can be found in Laak.