South Holland

This article is about the province of the Netherlands. For the town in the United States, see South Holland, Illinois, and for the district of Lincolnshire, see South Holland, England

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Table of contents

1 Introduction 2 Municipalities 3 Islands 4 See also 5 External links

Introduction

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 industrial of the provinces. Neighbouring provinces are Zeeland to the southwest, Noord Brabant to the southeast, Gelderland to the east, Utrecht to the northeast and Noord-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.

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

Municipalities

South Holland is divided into 91 municipalities) (here with shopping evenings in brackets, and links to maps):

• Alblasserdam [1]
• Albrandswaard [1]
• Alkemade (Roelofarendsveen: fr) [1]
• Alphen aan den Rijn (fr) [1]
• Barendrecht [1]
• Bergambacht [1]
• Bergschenhoek [1]
• Berkel en Rodenrijs [1]
• Bernisse [1]
• Binnenmaas
• Bleiswijk [1]
• Bodegraven [1]
• Boskoop [1]
• Brielle [1]
• Capelle aan den IJssel [1]
• Cromstrijen [1]
• De Lier
• Delft (fr) [1]
• Den Haag - including Scheveningen (th)
• Dirksland [1]
• Dordrecht [1]
• Giessenlanden [1]
• Goedereede [1]
• Gorinchem [1]
• Gouda [1]
• Graafstroom
• 's-Gravendeel
• 's-Gravenzande
• Hardinxveld-Giessendam [1]
• Hellevoetsluis [1]
• Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht [1]
• Hillegom (th) [1]
• Jacobswoude [1]
• Katwijk (th, except Hoornes and Rijnsoever: fr) [1]
• Korendijk [1]
• Krimpen aan den IJssel [1]
• Leerdam [1]
• Leiden (th, except Merenwijk: fr) [1]
• Leiderdorp (fr) [[1]
• Leidschendam-Voorburg [1]
• Liemeer [1]
• Liesveld
• Lisse (th) [1]
• Maasland
• Maassluis [1]
• Middelharnis [1]
• Monster
• Moordrecht [1]
• Naaldwijk
• Nederlek [1]
• Nieuw-Lekkerland [1]
• Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel [1]
• Nieuwkoop [1]
• Noordwijk (th) [1]
• Noordwijkerhout (fr) [1]
• Oegstgeest (fr) [1]
• Oostflakkee [1]
• Oud-Beijerland [1]
• Ouderkerk [1]
• Papendrecht [1]
• Pijnacker-Nootdorp (Nootdorp: fr)
• Reeuwijk [1]
• Ridderkerk [1]
• Rijnsburg (fr) [1]
• Rijnwoude [1]
• Rijswijk [1]
• Rotterdam - including Hoek van Holland (fr)
• Rozenburg [1]
• Sassenheim (th)
• Schiedam [1]
• Schipluiden
• Schoonhoven [1]
• Sliedrecht [1]
• Spijkenisse [1]
• Strijen [1]
• Ter Aar [1]
• Valkenburg (fr)
• Vlaardingen [1]
• Vlist [1]
• Voorhout (fr)
• Voorschoten (fr) [1]
• Waddinxveen [1]
• Warmond
• Wassenaar [1]
• Wateringen
• Westvoorne [1]
• Zederik [1]
• Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle [1]
• Zoetermeer (th) [1]
• Zoeterwoude [1]
• Zwijndrecht - including Heerjansdam [1], [1]

On 1 January 2004 the municipalities De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk and Wateringen will be merged to a new municipality Westland, and Maasland and Schipluiden to another one, Midden-Delfland.

Islands

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

• Rozenburg
  • Rozenburg [1]
  • part of Rotterdam (Botlek [1], Europoort [1], Maasvlakte [1])
• IJsselmonde
  • part of Rotterdam
  • Albrandswaard [1]
  • Barendrecht [1]
  • Ridderkerk [1]
  • Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht [1]
  • Zwijndrecht [1], [1]
• Voorne-Putten
  • Westvoorne [1]
  • Brielle [1]
  • Hellevoetsluis [1]
  • Bernisse [1]
  • Spijkenisse [1]
• Hoeksche Waard (the six municipalities are possibly merged in 2005 or 2006)
  • Oud-Beijerland [1]
  • Binnenmaas
  • 's-Gravendeel
  • part of Korendijk [1]
  • Cromstrijen [1]
  • Strijen [1]
• Eiland van Dordrecht [1]
  • Dordrecht
• Goeree-Overflakkee [1]
  • Goedereede
  • Dirksland
  • Middelharnis
  • Oostflakkee.
• Tiengemeten
  • part of Korendijk [1]

See also

Westland, Netherlands

External links

• Official site
• Basic information
• 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: Heerjansdam has merged into Zwijndrecht.