North Holland

North Holland
North Holland; Noord-Holland
	Province
	Banner Coat airms
	Anthem: Ik houd van het groen in je wei!
	Location o Noord-Holland in the Netherlands
Kintra	Netherlands
Caipital	Haarlem
Lairgest ceety	Amsterdam
Govrenment
• Queen's Commissioner	Arthur van Dijk (VVD)
Area
• Land	2,670 km2 (1,030 sq mi)
• Water	1,421 km2 (549 sq mi)
Area rank	6t
Population (2006)
• Land	2,606,584
• Rank	2nt
• Density	980/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
• Density rank	2nt
ISO 3166 code	NL-NH
Releegion (2005)	Catholic 18%; Muslim 8% ; Protestant 8%; Hindus 1%
Website	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 nor 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 2016, North Holland is dividit intae 48 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.

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