Once And For All...
Noticeable Oddities of the Day:
'Holland' or 'The Netherlands'...
It's simple...
The Netherlands: a country
Noord Holland and Zuid Holland; two of twelve provinces of The Netherlands... [so no countries]
'Holland' is a region consisting of these 2 provinces: Noord Holland and Zuid Holland
The other 10 provinces of the Netherlands are not Holland. Telling someone from Utrecht, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Groningen or Maastricht that they come from Holland is like telling someone from Glasgow or Cardiff that they come from 'England'..!
I'm born in The Netherlands, South of Holland... it makes me a Dutch, Eurasian, Indo Leidsche Glibber...
[don't ask me to explain that to you it is too complicated, trust me...]


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