South Holland
Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region
The Hague

Laak

Laak is district of , . With a population of 48,255 and an area of 4.3 square kilometres, it is the smallest and least populous of the city's eight districts.
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  • Type: Suburb with 48,300 residents
  • Description: district of The Hague
  • Also known as: “Laak, The Hague”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mauritshuis and Royal Library of the Netherlands.

Castle
Photo: Roman Boed, CC BY 2.0.
The is an art museum in , . The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings.

Library
Photo: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The KB National Library of the Netherlands is the national library of , based in , founded in 1798. The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the Netherlands, from medieval literature to today's publications.

Government office
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The is an international regulatory institution that governs issues regarding the Dutch language. It is best known for its spelling reforms which are promulgated by member states, grammar books, the Green Booklet and its support of Dutch language courses and studies worldwide.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rijswijk and Leidschendam-Voorburg.

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is a city in the province in the . It is a small city, which evolved around a tiny city core. The name is derived of 'rijshout', a type of wood which grew in the area and the word 'wijc', which was used for settlement in medieval times.

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is a municipality in the province of , which stretches along the canal De Vliet, with the historic centers of Voorburg and Leidschendam.

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is a fishing village, commercial harbour and seaside resort district in , the "international city on the sea". It has never been independent from The Hague, but the neighbourhoods of the fishing community still keep their special way of life.

Laak

Latitude
52.0632° or 52° 3′ 47″ north
Longitude
4.3215° or 4° 19′ 17″ east
Population
48,300
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
9F46387C+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3485078821
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
11525042
Wiki­data ID
Q1614099
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Laak” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Laak”
  • Bavarian: “Laak”
  • Chinese: “拉克”
  • Dutch: “Laak (stadsdeel van Den Haag)”
  • Dutch: “Laak”
  • French: “Laak”
  • German: “Laak”
  • Indonesian: “Laak”
  • Italian: “Laak”
  • Spanish: “Laak”
  • Ukrainian: “Лаак”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Laak”. Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.