North Holland
A province of the Netherlands in the northwest, home to Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport.
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The provincial capital is Haarlem, while the largest city is the Dutch capital Amsterdam.[1] The province of North Holland is situated in the northwest of the Netherlands, with its coastline along the North Sea.[2]
Geography and history
About one in six Dutch people live in North Holland, giving it a population density over eight times the European average as of 2004.[3] Since 2019, Arthur van Dijk has held the position of King's Commissioner for North Holland.[4] Located in North Holland is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which ranks as the busiest airport in the Netherlands and the third-busiest in Europe.[4] A desire to explore merging into a single Randstad province was expressed in February 2011 by North Holland, Utrecht, and Flevoland.[5][6][7]
The First Rutte cabinet gave a positive reception to this idea, and South Holland was also envisioned as part of the merger.[5]
What the cited sources add
A 2011 NOS report states that the provinces of North Holland, Utrecht, and Flevoland were considering a merger.[6] A 2011 NRC Handelsblad article by Marije Willems confirms that these three provinces were researching a merger.[7] The same NRC article notes that the cabinet proposed scaling up provincial government in the Randstad to prevent new administrative support structures.[7] Population data from citypopulation.de shows that as of the most recent figures, North Holland had 3,010,044 inhabitants, with 1,478,559 males and 1,513,457 females.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "North Holland" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "CBS Statline", opendata.cbs.nl (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "North Holland" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "CBS Statline", opendata.cbs.nl; "Noord-Holland (Province, Netherlands) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location", www.citypopulation.de (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "North Holland" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "NOORD-HOLLAND - Population", European Union (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "North Holland" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "71 million passengers through Schiphol", Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "North Holland" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Drie provincies denken over fusie", NOS, 2011.; "Randstadprovincies bekijken fusie", RTL Nieuws, 2011.; Marije Willems, "Randstadprovincies onderzoeken fusie", NRC Handelsblad, 2011.; "Echte Randstadprovincie is robuuste oplossing" , Provincie Zuid-Holland, 2011. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Drie provincies denken over fusie", NOS, 2011.. facts only, no text reused. nos.nl
- Marije Willems, "Randstadprovincies onderzoeken fusie", NRC Handelsblad, 2011.. facts only, no text reused. nrc.nl
- "Noord-Holland (Province, Netherlands) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location", www.citypopulation.de. facts only, no text reused. citypopulation.de
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- Wikipedia: North Holland (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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