Illustration: Depositphotos.com. The Netherlands goes to the polls to vote for members of the 12 provincial councils on March 15. While the pundits are watching the outcomes to try to find out what ...

The Netherlands may not be that large in terms of square metres, it's smaller than Tasmania, yet the country is divided into 12 provinces. And even though there is only 300 kilometres between the ...

The Netherlands, the fifth-largest economy in the euro zone, plans to merge three of its 12 provinces to boost development in the northwestern economic heartland around the capital, Amsterdam.

Dutch provinces have shot down their own plan to introduce new guidelines about the management of wolves ahead of the vote on Thursday. The plan is too strict for some and doesn’t go far enough for ...

The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces, and two of these provinces combined — Noord- and Zuid-Holland (North and South Holland) — actually make up Holland, as Holland.com explains.

The name Holland only refers to two of the country’s 12 provinces, North-Holland, ... The Netherlands will stop using Holland as its nickname in the new year as part of a $220,000 rebranding ...

Though Holland technically refers to only two of the Netherlands’ 12 provinces, North and South Holland, citizens have long accepted and even embraced it as another moniker for the entire country.

Provincial councils were elected in the Netherlands on March 20, with the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD), led by Thierry Baudet, winning 12 out of 75 seats.

Of the Netherlands’ 12 provinces, just two are technically called Holland. There is North Holland, where Amsterdam is located, and South Holland, home to other tourist hubs like Rotterdam and ...

The Netherlands has officially decided it will only be called the Netherlands. ... Technically, Holland specifically refers to two of the 12 provinces found in the Netherlands, ...

A collection of Dutch provinces are to lodge an application for the construction of a second nuclear power plant in the Netherlands, pitting them against Dutch utility Delta which has similar plans.