North Holland

North Holland Noord-Holland
—  Province  —
Banner Coat o airms
Anthem: Ik houd van het groen in je wei!
Location o Noord-Holland in the Netherlands
Kintra	Netherlands
Caipital	Haarlem
Govrenment
- Queen's Commissioner	Johan Remkes (VVD)
Aurie
- Land	2,670 km2 (1,030.9 sq mi)
- Watter	1,421 km2 (548.7 sq mi)
Aurie rank	6t
Indwallers (2006)
- Land	2,606,584
- Rank	2nt
- Densitie	976.2/km2 (2,528.5/sq mi)
- Densitie rank	2nt
ISO 3166 code	NL-NH
Releegion (2005)	Protestant 60% Catholic 20% Muslim 10% Hindus 5% Nae releegion 4% Unkent 1%
Wabsteid	www.noord-holland.nl

North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland [ˈnoːrt ˈɦɔlɑnt] ( listen), Wast Frisie: Noard-Holland) is a province situatit on the North Sea in the northwast pairt o the Netherlands. The provincial caipital is Haarlem an its lairgest ceety is Amsterdam.

Geography

North Holland is a broad peninsulae for the maist pairt, locatit atween the North Sea, Markermeer an the IJsselmeer. Mair than hauf o the province consists o reclaimit polder land situatit belaw sea level.

North Holland haes five municipalities wi aroond 100,000 or mair inhabitants. They are, in order o size, Amsterdam (in terms o population this is an aw the lairgest municipality in the Netherlands), Haarlem, Zaanstad, Haarlemmermeer, an Alkmaar. Anither seiven municipalities hae a population atween 50,000 an 100,000 inhabitants (them being, in order o size Hilversum, Amstelveen, Purmerend, Hoorn, Velsen, Alkmaar, an Heerhugowaard.) The island o Texel is an aw pairt o North Holland. North Holland haes an aw invited Bonaire, Saba an Sint Eustatius, umwhile pairt o the Netherlands Antilles, tae become pairt o their state. Nae decision haes been reached as o yet.

North Holland maks up a single region o the International Organization for Standardization warld region code seestem, haein the code ISO 3166-2:NL-NH.

Municipalities

As o Januar 2012, North Holland is dividit intae 55 municipalities (local govrenment). Efter the dissolution o the Netherlands Antilles, three islands in the Caribbean, Bonaire, Saba, an Sint Eustatius, wur affered tae join the province, though the affer haes been neither acceptit nor rejectit.

A Aalsmeer Alkmaar Amstelveen Amsterdam B Beemster Bergen Beverwijk Blaricum Bloemendaal Bussum C Castricum D Den Helder Diemen Drechterland

E Edam-Volendam Enkhuizen G Graft-De Rijp H Haarlem Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude Haarlemmermeer Harenkarspel Heemskerk Heemstede Heerhugowaard Heiloo Hilversum Hollands Kroon Hoorn Huizen K Koggenland

L Landsmeer Langedijk Laren M Medemblik Muiden N Naarden O Oostzaan Opmeer Ouder-Amstel P Purmerend S Schagen Schermer Stede Broec

T Texel U Uitgeest Uithoorn V Velsen W Waterland Weesp Wijdemeren Wormerland Z Zaanstad Zandvoort Zeevang Zijpe

See an aw

• Sooth Holland
• Leet o ceeties, touns an veelages in North Holland

Freemit airtins

• Wabsteid o the Province
• Map of Province in Google Maps
• Provincial Tourist Board
• Picturs frae North Holland
• Haarlem Shuffle