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Province South Holland
Provincie Zuid-Holland

Capital	Den Haag
Queen's Commissioner	J. (Jan) Franssen
Religion (1999)	Protestant 24% Catholic 17%
Area - Land - Water	5th 2.818 km² 585 km²
Population - Total - Density	1st 3.452.323 (2005) 1.225 /km²
Anthem	Lied van Zuid-Holland
Official website	www.zuid-holland.nl

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 industrialised of the provinces. Neighbouring provinces are Zeeland to the southwest, North Brabant to the southeast, Gelderland to the east, Utrecht to the northeast and North 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. Zoetermeer is a very new city, most of it is created in the year 1970. Other New Towns are Capelle aan den IJssel, Hellevoetsluis and Spijkenisse, all three situated in the vicinity of Rotterdam.

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

Rivers and other bodies of water include Nieuwe Maas, Nieuwe Waterweg, Oude Maas, Haringvliet, Hollands Diep.

Contents 1 History 2 Municipalities 3 Links to municipalities arranged according to location 4 Islands 5 Subdivisions 6 See also 7 External links

History

The province South Holland was formed in 1840, when the province Holland was split into a northern (North Holland) and southern part. Since then, South Holland has ceded three municipalities to the province of Utrecht: Oudewater in 1970, Woerden in 1989, and Vianen in 2002.

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. Probably this will be on 1 January 2006. The provisional new name is Teylingen.

Links to municipalities arranged according to location

                    Hillegom
                 Lisse
          Noordwijk
      Katwijk
         Leiden              Alphen aan den Rijn
 Wassenaar Voorschoten                          Bodegraven
          Leidschendam-Voorburg
The Hague Zoetermeer                   Gouda
   Rijswijk Pijnacker-Nootdorp
       Delft            Capelle aan den IJssel
Westland Vlaardingen Schiedam Rotterdam
 Hellevoetsluis Spijkenisse Barendrecht
                            Zwijndrecht
                             Dordrecht Sliedrecht Gorinchem

Islands

(from north to south and from west to east, with municipalities)

• Rozenburg
  • Rozenburg
  • part of Rotterdam (Botlek, Europoort, Maasvlakte)
• IJsselmonde
  • part of Rotterdam
  • Albrandswaard
  • Barendrecht
  • Ridderkerk
  • Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
  • Zwijndrecht
• Voorne-Putten
  • Westvoorne
  • Brielle
  • Hellevoetsluis
  • Bernisse
  • Spijkenisse
• Hoeksche Waard (the six municipalities are possibly merged in 2005 or 2006)
  • Oud-Beijerland
  • Binnenmaas
  • 's-Gravendeel
  • part of Korendijk
  • Cromstrijen
  • Strijen
• Eiland van Dordrecht
  • Dordrecht
• Goeree-Overflakkee
  • Goedereede
  • Dirksland
  • Middelharnis
  • Oostflakkee
• Tiengemeten
  • part of Korendijk

Subdivisions

There are four official regions [1]:

• Zuid-Holland Zuid [2]
  • Drechtsteden [3]
    • 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
  • Haaglanden [4], w:nl:Stadsgewest Haaglanden;
    • Delft, Den Haag, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Midden-Delfland, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Rijswijk, Wassenaar, Westland, Zoetermeer.
  • Leidse regio [5]; for a little map showing the municipalities see [6], p.4);
    • Alkemade, Leiden, Leiderdorp, Oegstgeest, Voorschoten, Zoeterwoude
  • Duin- en Bollenstreek [7]; for a little map showing the municipalities see the link above;
    • Hillegom, Katwijk, Lisse, Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout, Rijnsburg, Sassenheim, Valkenburg, Voorhout, Warmond
• Zuid-Holland Oost (Rijn&Gouwestreek [8] + De Waarden) [9]; see also Midden-Holland [10]
  • Krimpenerwaard
    • Bergambacht, Nederlek, Schoonhoven, Vlist, Ouderkerk
  • Alblasserwaard-Vijfheerenlanden
    • Giessenlanden, Gorinchem, Graafstroom, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Leerdam, Liesveld, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zederik.
  • Rijnstreek
    • Ter Aar, Alphen aan den Rijn, Jacobswoude, Liemeer, Nieuwkoop, Rijnwoude
  • Gouwestreek
    • Bodegraven, Boskoop, Gouda, Moordrecht, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Reeuwijk, Waddinxveen, Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle
• Rijnmond [11], also called Stadsregio Rotterdam [12]; see also w:nl:Stadsregio Rotterdam
  • Albrandswaard, Barendrecht, Bergschenhoek, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Bernisse, Bleiswijk, Brielle, Capelle aan den IJssel, Hellevoetsluis, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Maassluis, Ridderkerk, Rotterdam, Rozenburg, Schiedam, Spijkenisse, Vlaardingen, Westvoorne

The term Zuidvleugel refers to a large part of the province ([13], [14], p. 13):

• Drechtsteden and some more of the Hoeksche Waard: Binnenmaas, Oud-Beijerland
• Zuid-Holland West
• Rijnmond
• a small part of Zuid-Holland Oost: Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam

See also

• List of towns in South Holland
• list of towns and villages in South Holland (in Dutch)

External links

• Official site
  • List of municipalities with population and area figures (hard to find on the site, because not under Gemeenten but under Over de provincie!)
• Basic information
• Lists of towns and villages, with municipality
• Province maps showing subdivision in municipalities:
  • small version linking for each municipality to basic data page in Dutch
  • gif
  • pdf (map on page 6, higher resolution than the gif-map)

These maps are not quite up-to-date: they do not yet reflect that Heerjansdam has merged into Zwijndrecht.

• Map of 1853
• Tourist information - The province is subdivided in eight regions, not corresponding to those above. The maps show villages, not municipalities.
• Tourist information for a region called Zuid-Holland Zuid (South Holland South), but different from the one in the previous section: less on the west, more on the east; it is the region called "Dutch river area" in the website of the previous link.
• http://www.atlasgeo.ch/fotw/flags/nl-zh-.html - various info on the province and its municipalities, in particular flags
• Deltaworks Online - Flood protection of South Holland and Deltaregion

Entries for South Holland in worldwide gazetteers:
Alexandria Digital Library | Getty Thesaurus | ESRI | Falling Rain | Tageo | World Gazetteer

Provinces of the Netherlands (ranked lists)
Drenthe | Flevoland | Friesland | Gelderland | Groningen | Limburg | North Brabant | North Holland | Overijssel | South Holland | Utrecht | Zeeland

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