The Hague

The Hague Den Haag
Ceety an municipality
's-Gravenhage
The Hague skyscrapers seen frae the 'Plein', wi statue o William the Silent
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname(s): Residentiestad (Residential Ceety), Hofstad (Court ceety)
Coordinates: 52°5′N 4°19′E
Kintra	Netherlands
Province	Sooth Holland
Area(2006)
• Ceety an municipality	98.20 km2 (37.92 sq mi)
• Land	82.66 km2 (31.92 sq mi)
• Water	15.54 km2 (6.00 sq mi)
Population (1 Februar 2012)
• Ceety an municipality	501,725
• Density	5,894/km2 (15,270/sq mi)
• Urban	1,022,256
• Metro	1,406,000
• Randstad	6,659,300
• Demonym	Hagenaar or Hagenees
	Source: [1].
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

The Hague (Dutch: Den Haag pronounced [dɛnˈɦaˑχ] ( listen), officially 's-Gravenhage pronounced [ˈsχraˑvə(n)ˌɦaˑɣə] ( listen)) is the caipital ceety o the province o Sooth Holland in the Netherlands. Wi a population o 500,000 inhabitants (as o 1 September 2011), an mair than ane million inhabitants includin the suburbs, it is the third lairgest ceety o the Netherlands, efter Amsterdam an Rotterdam. Locatit in the wast o the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre o the Haaglanden conurbation an lees at the soothwast corner o the lairger Randstad conurbation.

The Hague is the seat o the Dutch govrenment an parliament, the Supreme Court, an the Cooncil o State, but the ceety is no the caipital o the Netherlands which constitutionally is Amsterdam. Noordeinde Palace, ane o the three offeecial palaces o the Dutch ryal family, is locatit in The Hague an aw. Aw foreign embassies in the Netherlands an 150 internaitional organizations are locatit in the ceety, includin the Internaitional Court o Juistice an the Internaitional Creeminal Court, which maks The Hague ane o the major ceeties hostin the Unitit Naitions, alang wi New York, Vienna an Geneva.

Internaitional relations

See an aw: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in the Netherlands

Twin touns an sister ceeties

The Hague is twinned wi:

• Bethlehem, Palestine
• Juigalpa, Nicaragua
• Warsaw, Poland
• Nazareth, Israel
• Palembang, Indonesie