North Holland

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North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland, West Frisian: Noard-Holland) is a province situated on the North Sea in the northwest part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is Haarlem and its largest city is Amsterdam.North Holland is a broad peninsula for the most part, located between the North Sea, Markermeer and the Ijsselmeer. More than half of the province consists of reclaimed polder land situated below sea level.North Holland has five municipalities with around 100,000 or more inhabitants. They are, in order of size, Amsterdam (in terms of population this is also the largest municipality in the Netherlands), Haarlem, Zaanstad, Haarlemmermeer, and Alkmaar. Another seven municipalities have a population between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants (them being, in order of size Hilversum, Amstelveen, Purmerend, Hoorn, Velsen, Alkmaar, and Heerhugowaard. The island of Texel is also part of North Holland. North Holland has also invited Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius, formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, to become part of their state. No decision has been reached as of yet.orth Holland makes up a single region of the International Organization for Standardization World region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL-NH.

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