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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (properly , but commonly, or ) (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.
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Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn (; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990) and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control.
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Dutch people
The Dutch people (Dutch: ) are the dominant ethnic group of the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language.
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Indo people
Indo or Indo-European people is a term used to describe a Eurasian people of mixed European and indigenous Indonesian ancestry. They are primarily found in The Netherlands and Indonesia, but also in the United States, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
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Johannes Vermeer
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized in Delft on 31 October 1632 as Joannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.
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Kunal Kohli
Kunal Kohli is a Hindi film director based in Mumbai. He has made four movies for Yash Raj Films owned by famed director and producer Yash Chopra. His first film under the Yash Raj banner was Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002) which did not fare too well at the box office. The film starred Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor.
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Louis Couperus
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (June 10, 1863 – July 16, 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is usually considered one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature.
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Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven (; born July 18, 1938) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States. Explicitly violent and/or sexual content and social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He is best known for directing the American feature films RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Starship Troopers (1997), and Hollow Man (2000).
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Paulus Potter
Paulus Potter (baptised on November 20, 1625 in Enkhuizen – buried on January 17, 1654 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, specialized in animals in landscapes, usually with a low point of view. Before Potter died of tuberculosis, 28-years old, he succeeded in producing about a hundred paintings, working continuously.
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Piet Mondriaan
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Queen Beatrix
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Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born ) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO (Architectuur Metropolitaanse Officie), currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Wieteke van Dort
Louisa Johanna Theodora (Wieteke) van Dort (Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, May 16, 1943) is a Dutch actress, comedienne, singer, writer and artist. She has appeared on many children’s television programs and is best known for her Dutch-Indonesian (“Indo”) character as Tante Lien in The Late Late Lien Show on Dutch television.
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Willem Marinus Dudok
Willem Marinus Dudok (6 July 1884, Amsterdam - 6 April 1974, Hilversum), was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall.
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William the Silent
William I, Prince of Orange (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also widely known as William the Silent (), or simply William of Orange (), was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. He was born in the House of Nassau as Count of Nassau-Dillenburg. He became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the branch House of Orange-Nassau.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (; Dutch ) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,364,422 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,372. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of approximately 6.7 million.
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Aruba
Aruba ( ) is a 33km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27km north of the coast of Venezuela. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles.
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Arusha
:This article refers to the city of Arusha. For other uses, see Arusha (disambiguation).
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Beelden aan Zee
Beelden aan Zee ("Pictures to the sea") museum in the Scheveningen district of The Hague, founded in 1994, is the only Dutch museum that is devoted exclusively to sculpture.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem (, , lit "House of Meat"; , Beth Leḥem or Modern Hebrew Beyt Leḥem, lit "House of Bread;" Bethleém) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism. The Hebrew Bible identifies Beit Lehem as the city David was from and the location where he was crowned as the king of Israel. The New Testament Gospels of Matthew and Luke identify Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth. The town is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, though the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration.
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Binnenhof
The Binnenhof (Dutch, literally "inner court"), is a complex of buildings in The Hague. It has been the location of meetings of the Staten-Generaal, the Dutch parliament, since 1446, and has been the centre of Dutch politics for many centuries.
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Brussels
Brussels (, pronounced ; , pronounced ), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (, Dutch: ), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
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Delft
Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland (Zuid-Holland), the Netherlands. It is located in between Rotterdam and The Hague.
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Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën) — was a republic in Europe existing from 1581 to 1795, preceding the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands. Alternative names include United Provinces, Foederatae Belgii Provinciae (Federated Belgic Provinces), and Belgica Foederata (Belgic Federation).
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France
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Haagse Hogeschool
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Haarlem
Haarlem (), in the past usually Harlem in English, is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic. Haarlem lies in the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe.
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Hofvijver
The Hofvijver is a small pond in the centre of The Hague. It is adjoined in the east by the Korte Vijverberg (road), in the south by the Binnenhof and the Mauritshuis, in the west by the Buitenhof and in the north by the Lange Vijverberg (road). In the middle there is a small island with plants and trees which has no name, it is usually referred to as "the island in the Vijverberg".
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Huis ten Bosch
Huis ten Bosch (English: "House in the Woods") is one of the four official residences of the Dutch Royal Family, located in The Hague in the Netherlands. It has been home to Queen Beatrix since 1981. The other royal palace in The Hague, Noordeinde Palace, is used for work-related purposes. A replica of the palace was built in Sasebo, Japan in a theme park bearing the same name.
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Indonesia
Indonesia ( or ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies.
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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Juigalpa
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Kijkduin
Kijkduin is a seaside resort on the North Sea coast of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. It is one of the two seaside resorts of the city of The Hague, the other (more famous) one being Scheveningen.
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Leiden
Leiden ()(in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland. Its number of inhabitants is about 118,000. The single urban area it forms together with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, has a number of about 254,000 inhabitants. Leiden is located on the Old Rhine, in a distance of some 20 kilometers from The Hague in its South and some 40 kilometers from Amsterdam in its North. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes (Kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of Leiden.
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Loosduinen
Loosduinen is a former village, now a neighbourhood of the Dutch city The Hague.
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Madurodam
Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague, in the Netherlands. It is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale, composed of typical Dutch buildings and landmarks, as are found at various locations in the country. This major Dutch tourist attraction was built in 1952 and has been visited by tens of millions of visitors since then. The miniature city was named after George Maduro, a law student from Curaçao who fought the Nazi occupation forces as a member of the Dutch resistance and died at Dachau concentration camp in 1945. In 1946 Maduro was posthumously granted the honor of Knight 4th-class of the Military Order of William, the highest and oldest honor in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, because he had distinguished himself in the Battle of the Netherlands against German troops. His parents donated the money to start the Madurodam project.
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Morocco
Morocco (, al-Maġrib; Berber: Amerruk / Murakuc; French: Maroc), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية, al-Mamlakah al-Maġribiyya), is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of nearly 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², including the disputed Western Sahara which is mainly under Moroccan administration. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with three small Spanish-controlled exclaves, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera), Algeria to the east, and Mauritania to the south.
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Morroco
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Museon
The Museon is a science museum in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Museum Bredius
Museum Bredius is a museum named after Abraham Bredius on the Lange Vijverberg in The Hague. It is remarkable for its collection of etchings and paintings, but is most attractive to visitors for its accurate restoration of the 18th century Herenhuis interior with period furnishings.
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Nazareth
Nazareth (; , Natzrat or Natzeret; al-Nāṣira or al-Naseriyye) is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is predominantly made up of Arab citizens of Israel. In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events. The name "Nazareth" may derive from the Hebrew verb na·tsar, נָצַר, meaning "watch, guard, keep."
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Netherlands
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Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: , Papiamentu: Antia Hulandes), also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands. Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the rest of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, with the other islands joining the Netherlands as special municipalities.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua ( ) officially the Republic of Nicaragua (, ), is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits between 11 degrees and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The capital city of Nicaragua is Managua. Roughly one quarter of the nation's population lives in the Nicaraguan capital, making it the second largest city and metropolitan area in Central America (following Guatemala City).
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Nootdorp
Nootdorp is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located approx. 2 km to the west of Delft and about 6 km southeast of the centre of The Hague, in the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp.
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Paard van Troje
Paard van Troje (Dutch for Trojan Horse) is a venue in The Hague, The Netherlands founded in 1972 in support of the alderman of culture from The Hague. Currently located at the Prinsegracht.
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Panorama Mesdag
Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting (also known as a Cyclorama) more than 14 meters high and about 40 meters in diameter (120 meters in circumference). From an observation gallery in the centre of the room the cylindrical perspective creates the illusion that the viewer is on a high sand dune overlooking the sea, beaches and village of Scheveningen in the late 19th century. A foreground of fake terrain around the viewing gallery hides the base of the painting and makes the illusion more convincing.
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Peace Palace
The Peace Palace (), situated in The Hague, Netherlands, is often called the seat of international law because it houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague Academy of International Law, and the extensive Peace Palace Library.
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Pijnacker
Pijnacker is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located about 4 km east of the city of Delft, in the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Rijswijk
[ɹɾɛijsvɛik] is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a suburb of The Hague (population: 47,693 in 2004) and covers an area of 14.48 km² (of which 0.43 km² is covered by water).
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (; Dutch ) is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the country, with a population of 603,425 as of March 2010.
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South Holland
South Holland (Dutch: ) is a province situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam. The province is the most populated of the 12 provinces.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Suriname
'Suriname or Surinam' ( or , ; Sarnami: शर्नम् Sarnam, Sranan Tongo: Sranangron or Sranankondre), officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America. Its geographical size is just under , and it has an estimated population of approximately 470,000, most of whom live on the country's north coast, where the capital Paramaribo is located.
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Taza Province
Taza is a province in the Moroccan economic region of Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate. Its population in 2004 is 743,237. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1248414813&men;=gpro&lng;=en&des;=wg&geo;=-6492&srt;=npan&col;=adhoq&msz;=1500]
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The Hague Center
The Hague city center has 90,000 inhabitants and is the oldest part of The Hague. It consists of nine parts. This article briefly describes all nine parts that make up the city center.
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The Hague University
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Turkey (country)
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Voorschoten
(population: 22,505 in 2004) is a village and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a smaller town in the Randstad, enclosed by the cities of Leiden and The Hague. The municipality covers an area of 11.59 km² (of which 0.38 km² is covered by water). Recently, plans to merge into one village with Wassenaar have been introduced.
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Warsaw
Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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Wassenaar
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Wateringen
Wateringen is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 5 km southwest of The Hague.
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Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer () is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.06 km² (of which 2.15 km² is water). A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950 . By 1 January 2010 this had grown to 121.580, making it the third largest population center in the province of South Holland, after Rotterdam and The Hague, and the largest suburb of The Hague.
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The Hague beckons
www.ntv.co.ke 7th April is the date for the Ocampo six to face the pre-trial chamber judges. And as NTV's Brenda Mulinya reports that would formally mark the beginning of what has come to be known as the Hague process.
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The Hague date
ICC CASES BEGIN www.ntv.co.ke ICC judges have set 1st September 2011 as the date when hearings on confirmation of post election violence charges against Wiliam Ruto, Henry Kosgey and Joshua Sang shall start. At the start of the ICC cases in the Hague, judges warned the Ocampo six that warrants of arrest will be issued against them if they engaged in inciting speeches.
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The Hague hope
www.ntv.co.ke The on-going confirmation of charges hearings in The Hague is being keenly followed in Nairobi's Kibera slums, which was one of the areas worst affected by the post election violence. Many residents say they support the ICC process, which they believe will finally deliver justice to the victims. But as Jane Kiyo, who attended an open forum for the residents reports, they also hope the process will have a long lasting effect of healing inter-ethnic animosity in the country.
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DEN HAAG, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
Brief photo slide made of pictures taken while walking around in The Hague, during a trip to Holland in 2006. The Hague, is the third-largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. It belongs to the province of South Holland, of which it is also the provincial capital, and it is part of the conglomerate metropolitan area Randstad, with a population of 6659300 inhabitants. The Hague is the actual seat of the Dutch government and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives and works in The Hague, but the official capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam. It is also home to over 150 international (legal) organisations The Hague originated around 1230, when Floris IV, Count of Holland purchased land alongside a pond (now the hofvijver) in order to build a hunting residence. When the Dukes of Burgundy gained control over the counties of Holland and Zeeland in the beginning of the 15th century, their seat was located in The Hague. Probably since those days, the stork has been the symbol of the city. At the beginning of the Eighty Years' War, the Spanish troops easily occupied the town, due to the absence of walls. From 1588 The Hague also became the location of the government of the Dutch Republic. In order for the administrations to maintain control over city manners, The Hague never received city rights (although it did have many privileges, normally only attributed to cities). Parts of the city sustained heavy damage during WWII, and the Atlantic Wall was built <b>...</b>
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Mungiki and The Hague
www.ntv.co.ke The much feared proscribed sect has been thrust into the public domain, courtesy of the pre-trial hearings in The Hague. The involvement of the Mungiki sect in the post election violence has always been a well-known fact. But it is at the ongoing confirmation hearings at The Hague, where the prosecution has for the first time attempted to reveal what it claims to have been an intricate co-operation between the terror gang and the sitting government, at the height of the post poll chaos. Jane Kiyo takes a closer look at the dreaded sect and the renewed interest in it, stemming from the ICC pre-trial process.
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Louis Andriessen - Haags Hakkûh - The Hague Hacking - Part 1/2
Katia and Marielle Labèque, pianos Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor ASKO|Schönberg June 6, 2009 This is the Dutch premiere of the following work. This piece is loosely based on a Dutch song called "O, O, Den Haag" and the first theme from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Actually, more specifically, it comes from the Tom and Jerry episode entitled "The Cat Concerto". He intended to turn the 2 pianos into a sort of "super-piano". He says that his favorite concerto for 2 pianos is the one by Poulenc, although I'm not sure the influence is apparent. All of the usual Andriessen compositional techniques are present, such as hocketing between the two pianos (note the camera angles), strings senza vibrato, coloristic percussion, etc. More info here: www.boosey.com I was lucky enough to be at the premiere of this great work, and this performance is even better.
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The Hague nightmare: Suspects accused of evictions, rape & murder
www.ntv.co.ke This was the second time the suspects were heading to The Hague in relation to this case. The three Uhuru Kenyatta, Francis Muthaura and retired major general Hussein Ali have become the highest government officials ever to face charges at an international court. Here is NTV's Nimrod Taabu with a close look.
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Funding the Hague suspects
www.ntv.co.ke The coalition government remains divided on the reported plan to extend government funding to some of the post election violence suspects in the event of trials at the International Criminal Court. Deputy Prime minister Musalia Mudavadi has contradicted vice president Kalonzo Musyoka saying cabinet has never approved the hiring of lawyers for the Hague six. NTV's Pamela Asigi report.
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Spilling of beans begins at The Hague
www.ntv.co.ke On the first day of the confirmation hearings at The Hague, William Ruto, Henry Kosgey and Joshua arap Sang through their lawyers and in person all made impassioned submissions in their defence, dismissing the merit of the charges laid against them and claiming innocence over the 2008 post election violence. And before that, the three suspects through their lawyers challenged the jurisdiction of the international criminal court. From The Hague, NTV's John- Allan Namu reports.
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What our MPs exported to The Hague
Among the enduring spectacles of the start of the ICC cases against six Kenyans is the presence of a large number of politicians who are ostensibly here to escort and give moral support to the Ocampo six. But as John Allan Namu reports, there is more to the trip by MPs to the Hague; it is about exporting a peculiar Kenyan but not necessarily positive culture.
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DNG - Welcome to The Hague
www.dng-online.com DNG's second and official single of his upcoming debut album "Regardless". The song is produced and written by DNG and contains a tribute to his hometown. The video was directed and edited by VinRock, an upcoming and aspiring director from Rotterdam with 070 roots. twitter.com
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Scheveningen Beach (The Hague) Netherlands
Scheveningen is part of The Hague, Netherlands. It is a modern seaside resort with a long sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier, and a lighthouse. A nudist section is 1 km to the north. The harbor is used both for fishing and tourism. The long sandy beach is also popular for watersports like windsurfing and kiteboarding
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Ruto's Exclusive Interview From The Hague
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- Duration: 11:15
- Published: 07 Apr 2011
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- Author: kenyacitizentv
William Ruto talks to our reporter Hussein Muhammed after leaving court.
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Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Hague NSJF 1998
World Music
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Day 2 At the Hague
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- Published: 08 Apr 2011
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The second group of Kenya's post election violence suspects made their first formal appearance before the international criminal court pre-trial chambers. Public service head ambassador Francis Muthaura, deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta and postmaster general Hussein Mohamed Ali, like their fellow suspects yesterday, had the opportunity to listen to the charges ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno - Ocampo hopes to prefer against them, as well as hear their rights under the Rome statute. But the courtroom was markedly different from yesterday, in that British lawyers formed the bulk of the defence teams for Muthaura, Kenyatta and Ali. An all British defence counsel represented Kenyatta, while Muthaura picked former Liberian president Charles Taylor's lawyer to be his lead counsel. Sylvia Chebet now brings us today's intrigues inside the ICC pre-trial chamber.
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Rcdrift D1:10 Round 4 HFCC The Hague
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- Published: 25 Aug 2010
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- Author: Driftjay01
22-08-2010, Dutch D1:10 Rcdrift competition, Round 4 held at HFCC The Hague Netherlands
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Yoshitomo Nara, in GEM Museum, The Hague.
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- Duration: 2:32
- Published: 01 Jun 2007
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- Author: starstraat
The GEM is extremely proud to present the first ever solo show to be held in any European museum by Yoshitomo Nara (b. Hirosaki, 1959), one of today's leading Japanese artists. As a representative of the Japanese pop art of the nineties, he gained worldwide fame with seductive figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures, all executed in a deliberately elementary style. The emphasis in this presentation will be on recent work, most of it produced especially for this occasion, exhibited in a unique architectural setting developed by Nara in collaboration with design collective Graf. www.gem-online.nl
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Den Haag/The Hague/La Haye/La Haya
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- Duration: 5:20
- Published: 20 Feb 2008
- Uploaded: 23 Nov 2011
- Author: vikash2000
A video about the city of The Hague in The Netherlands. It shows some pictures of a few nice places there. The Hague is the capital of the province South Holland and the Dutch Government is located there, also the Dutch Royal Family lives there. The first song is from Barry White - Love's Theme and the second is Ja Rule - New York(instrumental). Video made by vikash2000.
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HouseQuake Xmas Edition Paard The Hague
HouseQuake a concept by Erick-E, Roog en MC Gee in famous Paard van Troje Club @ The Hague 25 dec 2006 footage 2 get an impression for www.party-mania.nl by martwork (more) (less)
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When I Sold My Soul to the Machine (Part I)
From the early nineties an electronical music culture emerged in The Hague, the Netherlands. This film travels back and forth in time, alongside the artists and styles while connecting the characteristics of this period. Release date : November 2004 Lenght: +/- 45 minutes Language : Dutch Subtitles : English Ronald Lindgreen, Igor Lesic and Merijn Pancras.
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Mark Lanegan Live 'Hotel' The Hague 1998
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- Published: 07 Jul 2007
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Mark Lanegan Band performing 'Hotel' at The Crossing Border Festival in The Hague, The Netherland, late 1998. The tour lineup featured Mike Johnson, Ben Shepherd, Mark Boquist, and Marc Olsen. Mark's solo work is timeless and amazing.
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The Fatal Flowers - live at Parkpop (Den Haag, NL, june '90)
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- Duration: 8:15
- Published: 09 Mar 2007
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- Author: gazpachofever
The best band Holland ever had! Split up in the summer of 1990, just after they'd performed at the Parkpop Festival in The Hague (attended by 450.000 people).
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Tom Waits - Take It With Me (The Hague 1999)
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- Published: 11 Jun 2010
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Take It With Me, from a concert by Tom Waits, Congresgebouw, Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands, July 21 1999.
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| Coordinates | 30°19′10″N81°39′36″N |
|---|---|
| Name | The Hague |
| Native name | |
| Official name | |
| Nickname | Residentiestad (Residential City), Hofstad (Court city) |
| Flag size | 120x100px |
| Image shield | Den Haag wapen.svg |
| Shield size | 120x100px |
| Coordinates display | inline,title |
| Coordinates region | NL |
| Subdivision type | Country |
| Subdivision name | Netherlands |
| Subdivision type1 | Province |
| Subdivision name1 | South Holland |
| Area footnotes | (2006) |
| Area total km2 | 98.20 |
| Area land km2 | 82.66 |
| Area water km2 | 15.54 |
| Population as of | 1 september 2011 |
| Population note | Source: . |
| Settlement type | City and municipality |
| Population total | 500,000 |
| Population density km2 | 5894 |
| Population urban | 1022256 |
| Population metro | 1406000 |
| Population blank1 title | Randstad |
| Population blank1 | 6659300 |
| population blank2 title | Demonym |
| population blank2 | Hagenaar or Hagenees |
| Timezone | CET |
| Utc offset | +1 |
| Timezone dst | CEST |
| Utc offset dst | +2 |
The Hague (with a capital T; Dutch: File:Ltspkr.png Den Haag, , officially File:Ltspkr.png 's-Gravenhage, ) is the capital city of the province South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants (as of 1 September 2011), it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is the centre of the conurbation Haaglanden and lies at the southwest corner of the larger conurbation Randstad.
The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government and parliament, the Supreme Court, and the Council of State, but the city is not the capital of the Netherlands which constitutionally is Amsterdam. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives at Huis ten Bosch and works at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. All foreign embassies in the Netherlands and 150 international organisations are located in the city, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which makes The Hague one of the major cities hosting the United Nations, along with New York and Geneva.
History
thumb|250px|left|The Hague in 1868 The Hague originated around 1230, when Floris IV, Count of Holland purchased land alongside a pond (now the Hofvijver) in order to build a hunting residence. In 1248 William II, Count of Holland and Rex Romanorum, decided to extend the residence to a palace. He died in 1256 before this palace was completed, but parts of it were finished by his son Floris V, of which the Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall), still extant, is the most prominent. It is still used for political events, such as the annual speech from the throne by the monarch. From the 13th century on the counts of Holland used The Hague as their administrative centre and residence when in Holland.
Name and status
The Hague is first mentioned as 'Die Hage' in a document dating from 1242. In the fifteenth century the more formal 'des Graven hage' came into use, literally "the count's wood", with connotations like "the count's hedge, private enclosure or hunting grounds". 's Gravenshage was officially used for the city from the 17th century on. Nowadays this name is only used in official documents. The city itself uses "Den Haag" in all its other communications.When the Dukes of Burgundy gained control over the counties of Holland and Zeeland at the beginning of the 15th century, they appointed a stadtholder to rule in their stead with the States of Holland as an advisory council. Their seat was located in The Hague. At the beginning of the Eighty Years' War, the absence of city walls proved disastrous, as it allowed Spanish troops easily to occupy the town. In 1575 the States of Holland even considered demolishing the city, but this proposal was abandoned, after mediation by William of Orange. From 1588 The Hague also became the location of the government of the Dutch Republic. In order for the administration to maintain control over city matters, The Hague never received official city status (although it did have many of the privileges normally granted only to cities). However, since the days of King Louis Napoleon (1806) The Hague has been allowed to call itself a city.
After the Napoleonic Wars, modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands were combined in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands to form a buffer against France. As a compromise, Brussels and The Hague alternated as capital every two years, with the government remaining in The Hague. After the separation of Belgium in 1830, Amsterdam remained the capital of the Netherlands, while the government was situated in The Hague.
Since early times, probably as far back as the 15th century, the stork has been the symbol of The Hague.
Modern city
Because of its history, the historical inner city of The Hague differs in various respects from the nearby smaller cities of Leiden and Delft. It does not have a cramped inner city, bordered by canals and walls. Instead it has some small streets in the town centre that may be dated from the late Middle Ages, and several spacious streets boasting rich 18th century houses built for diplomats and affluent Dutch families. It has a large church dating from the 15th century, an impressive City Hall (built as such) from the 16th century, several large 17th-century palaces, a 17th-century Protestant church built in what was then a modern style, and many important 18th-century buildings. When the government started to play a more prominent role in Dutch society after 1850, The Hague quickly expanded. Many streets were specifically built for the large number of civil servants employed in the country's government and for the Dutchmen who were retiring from the administration and exploitation of the Netherlands East Indies. The growing city annexed the rural municipality of Loosduinen partly in 1903 and completely in 1923.Parts of the city sustained heavy damage during World War II. The Atlantic Wall was built through part of the city, causing a large quarter to be torn down by the Nazi occupants. On March 3, 1945, the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the Bezuidenhout quarter. The target was an installation of V-2 rockets in a nearby park. Because of navigational errors, the bombs fell on a heavily populated and historic part of the city. Over 500 people died and the scars in the city may still be seen today.
After the war The Hague was at one point the largest building site in Europe. The city expanded massively to the southwest. The destroyed areas were also quickly rebuilt. The population peaked at 600,000 inhabitants around 1965.
In the 1970s and 1980s many, mostly white, middle class families moved to neighbouring towns like Voorburg, Leidschendam, Rijswijk and, most of all, Zoetermeer. This led to the traditional pattern of an impoverished inner city and more prosperous suburbs. Attempts to include parts of these municipalities in the city of The Hague were highly controversial. In the 1990s, with the consent of Dutch Parliament, The Hague annexed fairly large areas from neighbouring towns as well as from not even bordering ones, on which complete new residential areas were built and are still being built.
Cityscape
City life concentrates around the Hofvijver and the Binnenhof, where the Parliament is located. The city has a limited student culture due to its lack of an actual university, although the Royal Conservatory of The Hague is located there, as well as The Hague University, a vocational university and a branch of The Open University of the Netherlands. The city has many civil servants and diplomats. In fact, the number and variety of foreign residents (especially the expatriates) makes the city quite culturally diverse, with many foreign pubs, shops and cultural events.
The Hague is the largest Dutch city on the North Sea and includes two distinct beach resorts. The main beach resort Scheveningen, in the northwestern part of the city, is a popular destination for tourists as well as for inhabitants. With 10 million visitors a year, it is the most popular beach town in the Benelux. Kijkduin, in the southwest, is The Hague's other beach resort. It is significantly smaller and attracts mainly local residents.
The former Dutch colony of Netherlands East Indies ("Nederlands-Indië", now Indonesia) has left its mark on The Hague. Since the 19th century high level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies often spent long term leave and vacation in The Hague. Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies (as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname) and there is a sizable "Indo" (i.e. mixed Dutch-Indonesian) community. Since the loss of these Dutch possessions in December 1949, "Indo people" also known as "Indische people" often refer to The Hague as "the Widow of the Indies".
The older parts of the town have many characteristically wide and long streets. Houses are generally low-rise (often not more than three floors). A large part of the southwestern city was planned by the progressive Dutch architect H.P. Berlage about 1910. This 'Plan Berlage' decided the spacious and homely streets for several decades. In World War II a large part of western The Hague was destroyed by the Germans. Afterwards, modernist architect W.M. Dudok planned its renewal, putting apartment blocks for the middle class in open, park-like settings.
The layout of the city is more spacious than other Dutch cities, and because of the incorporation of large and old nobility estates, the creation of various parks and the use of green zones around natural streams, it is a much more green city than any other in the Netherlands. That is, excepting some mediaeval close-knitted streets in the centre. There are only a few canals in The Hague, as most of these were drained in the late 19th century.
Some of the most prosperous and some of the poorest neighbourhoods of the Netherlands can be found in The Hague. The wealthier areas (Statenkwartier, Belgisch Park, Marlot, Benoordenhout and Archipelbuurt) are generally located in the northwest part of the city; however, the Vogelwijk and several very recently built quarters like Vroondaal are in the southwest, not far from the sea. Poorer areas like Transvaal, Moerwijk, and the Schilderswijk can be found in the southeastern areas, or near the coast in Scheveningen (Duindorp). This division is reflected in the local accent: The more affluent citizens are usually called "Hagenaars" and speak so-called "bekakt Haags" ("Bekakt" is Dutch for "stuck-up"). This contrasts with the "Hagenezen", who speak "plat Haags" ("plat" meaning "flat" or "common").
The tallest building is the 142-metre-tall Hoftoren (see image).
Geography
The Hague has eight official districts (stadsdelen). They are divided into smaller parts (wijken).See Districts of The Hague for a detailed breakdown.
Demographics
Origin of citizens of The Hague in 2010:
International organisations
The city contributes substantially to international politics: The Hague is home to over 150 international organisations. These include the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
The foundation of The Hague as an "international city of peace and justice" was laid in 1899, when the world's first Peace Conference took place in The Hague on Tobias Asser's initiative, followed by a second in 1907. A direct result of these meetings was the establishment of the world's first organisation for the settlement of international disputes: the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). Shortly thereafter the Scottish-American millionaire Andrew Carnegie made the necessary funds available to build the Peace Palace ("Vredespaleis") to house the PCA.
After the establishment of the League of Nations, The Hague became the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice, which was replaced by the UN's International Court of Justice after the Second World War. The establishment of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal (1981), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1993) and the International Criminal Court (2002) in the city further consolidated the role of The Hague as a center for international legal arbitration. Most recently, on 1 March 2009, a U.N. tribunal to investigate and prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened in the former headquarters of the Netherlands General Intelligence Agency in Leidschendam, a town within the greater The Hague area.
The Hague is the fourth major centre for the UN, after New York, Geneva and Vienna. In line with the city's history as an important convention center and the current presence of institutions such as the ICJ, The Hague's city council employs a city branding strategy that aims to establish The Hague as the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice.
Major international organisations based in The Hague include:
Many academic institutions in the fields of international relations, international law and international development are based in The Hague. The Hague Academic Coalition (HAC) is a consortium of those institutions.
Its member institutions are:
In 1948 The Hague Congress was held with 750 delegates from 26 European countries, providing them with the opportunity to discuss ideas about the development of the European Union.
Business
Professional life in The Hague is dominated by the large number of civil servants and diplomats who work in the city. Government ministries and public institutions are almost all located in The Hague. It is also home to several large international businesses, including:
There has never been any large-scale industrial activity in The Hague, with the possible exception of the fishing harbour in Scheveningen. Many of the city’s logistical and minor-industrial services are located in the Binckhorst (Laak district), which contains many large warehouses.
Culture
The Hague has its share of museums and cultural institutions:
Other tourist attractions and landmarks in The Hague include:
The Hague does not have the customary metropolitan reputation for a bustling night life, with some festivity exceptions in the course of the year. This is partly explained by the city's lack of a university and hence student life. Night life centers around the three main squares in the city center: the Plein (literally "Square"), the Grote Markt (literally "Great Market") and the Buitenhof (literally the "Outer Court", which lies just outside the Binnenhof). The Plein is taken by several large sidewalk cafés where often politicians may be spotted. The Grote Markt is completely strewn with chairs and tables, summer or winter. The Buitenhof contains the popular Pathé Buitenhof cinema and a handful of bars and restaurants in the immediate vicinity. A similar pattern of night life centers on the cinema in Scheveningen, although, especially in summer, night life concentrates around the sea-front boulevard with its bars, restaurants and gambling halls.
Sports
Films shot in The Hague
Annual events
Transportation
Public transport in The Hague consists of a sizeable number of tram and bus routes, operated by HTM Personenvervoer. Plans for a subway were shelved in the early 1970s. However, in 2004 a tunnel was built under the city centre with two underground tram stations ("Spui" and "Grote Markt"); it is shared by tram routes 2, 3, 4 and 6.A regional light rail system called RandstadRail connects The Hague to nearby cities, Zoetermeer and Rotterdam. The system suffered from startup problems and derailings in 2006, but is fully operational now.
There are two main train stations in The Hague: Den Haag Hollands Spoor (HS) and Den Haag Centraal Station (CS), only 1.5 km distant from each other. Because these two stations were built and exploited by two different railway companies in the 19th century, east-west lines terminate at Centraal Station, whereas north-south lines run through Hollands Spoor. The international Benelux trains to Brussels call only at Hollands Spoor. Centraal Station does, however, now offer good connections with the rest of the country, with direct services to most major cities, for instance Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
The Hague shares an airport with Rotterdam. It can be reached from Central Station by RandstadRail Line E, with an Airport Shuttle to and from Meijersplein Station. However, with several direct trains per hour from the railway stations Hollands Spoor and Centraal, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is more frequently used by people travelling to and from The Hague by air.
Major motorways connecting to The Hague include the A12, running to Utrecht and the German border. The A12 runs directly into the heart of the city in a cutting. Built in the 1970s, this section of motorway (the "Utrechtsebaan") is now heavily overburdened. Plans were made in the late 1990s for a second artery road into the city (the "Trekvliettracé" or previously called "Rotterdamsebaan") but have continually been put on hold. Other connecting motorways are the A4, which connects the city with Amsterdam, and the A13, which runs to Rotterdam and connects to motorways towards the Belgian border. There is also the A44 that connects the city to Leiden, Haarlem and Amsterdam.
Nearby towns and conurbations
Delft, Leiden, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Nootdorp, Pijnacker, Rijswijk, Voorburg, Voorschoten, Wassenaar, Wateringen, ZoetermeerThe Hague is the centre of a conurbation called Haaglanden.
The Leiden conurbation lies to the north. The Rotterdam conurbation (called "Stadsregio Rotterdam" or "Rijnmond") lies to the east. The conurbations around The Hague and Rotterdam are close enough to be a single conurbation in some contexts. For example, they share the Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a light rail system called RandstadRail. Consideration is being given to creating a Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan area (metropoolregio).
This large conurbation centred on The Hague and Rotterdam is, in turn, part of the Randstad, specifically a band of municipalities called the South Wing (Zuidvleugel). The Randstad, which includes Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht, has a population of 6,659,300. The Hague lies at the southwestern corner of one of the largest urban areas in Europe.
International relations
Twin towns – Sister cities
The Hague is twinned with: Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority Juigalpa, Nicaragua Warsaw, Poland Nazareth, IsraelIn addition, The Hague has a policy to partner with various countries of origin of its citizens. Since 2002 The Hague co-operates with Suriname and in 2009 a co-operation contract was made with the Moroccan provinces of Nador, Al Hoceima and Taza. There are plans to make such contracts with Turkey and the Antilles.
See also
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External links
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