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The Hague

The Hague is a city in the province of in the . It is the seat of the Dutch parliament and government, and the residence of King Willem-Alexander.
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  • Type: City with 526,000 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in the Netherlands, seat of the Dutch government
  • Also known as: “‘s-Gravenhage”, “Den Haag”, “Haag”, and “Hague”
  • Postal codes: 2491-2493, 2495-2498, 2511-2518, 2521-2526, 2531-2533, 2541-2548, 2551-2555, 2561-2566, 2571-2574, 2581-2587, and 2591-2597
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

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 Hague, . 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 The Hague, founded in 1798. The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the Netherlands, from medieval literature to today's publications.

Government office
Photo: Jsterckx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Scheveningen and Rijswijk.

Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a fishing village, commercial harbour and seaside resort district in The Hague, 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.

Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Photo: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the province of , which stretches along the canal De Vliet, with the historic centers of Voorburg and Leidschendam.

The Hague

Latitude
52.08° or 52° 4′ 48″ north
Longitude
4.3113° or 4° 18′ 41″ east
Population
526,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
HAG
United Nations Location Codes
NL HA9 and NL HAG
Open location code
9F4638H6+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 235857686
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2747373
Wiki­data ID
Q36600
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“The Hague” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Afrikaans: “Den Haag”
  • Albanian: “Haga”
  • Albanian: “Hagë”
  • Amharic: “ደን ሃግ”
  • Arabic: “اللاهاي”
  • Arabic: “لاهاي”
  • Armenian: “Հաագա”
  • Arpitan: “L’Hage”
  • Asturian: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Asturian: “Den Haag”
  • Asturian: “L’Haya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haaqa şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haaqa”
  • Balinese: “Den Haag”
  • Basque: “Haga”
  • Belarusian: “Гаага”
  • Bengali: “হেগ”
  • Bosnian: “Den Haag”
  • Bosnian: “Haag”
  • Bosnian: “Hag”
  • Breton: “Den Haag”
  • Bulgarian: “Хага”
  • Burmese: “ဟိတ်မြို့တော်”
  • Catalan: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Catalan: “Den Haag”
  • Catalan: “Haia”
  • Catalan: “L’Haia”
  • Catalan: “la Haia”
  • Catalan: “La Haia”
  • Catalan: “S‘ Gravenhage”
  • Catalan: “The Hague”
  • Cebuano: “Ang Aya”
  • Cebuano: “Aya”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Den Haag”
  • Central Bikol: “Aya”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاھای”
  • Chavacano: “El Haya”
  • Chechen: “Гаага”
  • Chinese: “Den Haag”
  • Chinese: “斯赫拉芬哈赫”
  • Chinese: “海牙”
  • Chuvash: “Гаага”
  • Croatian: “Den Haag”
  • Croatian: “Haag”
  • Croatian: “Hag”
  • Czech: “‘s Gravenhage”
  • Czech: “Haag”
  • Danish: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Danish: “Den Haag”
  • Danish: “Haag”
  • Danish: “The Hague”
  • Dutch: “‘s-Gravenhage” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Den Haag”
  • Dutch: “gemeente ‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Den Haag”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Den Haag”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اللاهاى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دينهاخ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاهاى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاهاي”
  • Esperanto: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Esperanto: “Den Haag”
  • Esperanto: “Hago”
  • Estonian: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Estonian: “Den Haag”
  • Estonian: “Haag”
  • Extremaduran: “L’Aya”
  • Faroese: “Haag”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Netherlands”
  • Fiji Hindi: “The Hague”
  • Finnish: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Finnish: “Den Haag”
  • Finnish: “Haag”
  • French: “‘s Gravenhage”
  • French: “’s Gravenhage”
  • French: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • French: “’s-Gravenhage”
  • French: “Den Haag”
  • French: “Haguenois”
  • French: “La Haye”
  • French: “The Hague”
  • Galician: “A Haia”
  • Galician: “Den Haag”
  • Galician: “Haia”
  • Georgian: “ჰააგა”
  • German: “‘s Gravenhage”
  • German: “’s Gravenhage”
  • German: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • German: “’s-Gravenhage”
  • German: “Den Haag”
  • German: “Der Haag”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌰𐌲”
  • Greek: “Χάγη”
  • Gujarati: “હેગ”
  • Haitian: “Layè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Den Haag”
  • Hausa: “Hague”
  • Hebrew: “דן האג”
  • Hebrew: “דן האך”
  • Hebrew: “האג”
  • Hebrew: “הג”
  • Hebrew: “סכראפנהאכה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Aya”
  • Hindi: “हेग”
  • Hungarian: “Hága”
  • Icelandic: “Den Haag”
  • Icelandic: “Haag”
  • Ido: “Den Haag”
  • Iloko: “Aya”
  • Indonesian: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Indonesian: “Den Haag”
  • Interlingua: “Le Haga”
  • Interlingue: “Den Haag”
  • Irish: “an Háig”
  • Irish: “An Háig”
  • Irish: “The Hague”
  • Italian: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Italian: “Den Haag”
  • Italian: “L’Aia”
  • Italian: “L’Aja”
  • Italian: “Le Hague”
  • Italian: “The Hague”
  • Japanese: “スフラーフェンハーヘ”
  • Japanese: “デン・ハーグ”
  • Japanese: “デン・ハーハ”
  • Japanese: “デン・ハーフ”
  • Japanese: “デンハーグ”
  • Japanese: “ハーグ”
  • Javanese: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Javanese: “Den Haag”
  • Kannada: “ದ ಹೇಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gaaga”
  • Kashubian: “Haga”
  • Kazakh: “Гаага”
  • Kikuyu: “Hague”
  • Kinaray-A: “Aya”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаага”
  • Komering: “Den Haag”
  • Korean: “덴 하흐”
  • Korean: “덴하흐”
  • Korean: “스흐라벤하허”
  • Korean: “헤그”
  • Korean: “헤이그”
  • Kotava: “Den Haag”
  • Kurdish: “Den Haag”
  • Ladin: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Ladin: “Den Haag”
  • Ladin: “L’Aja”
  • Ladin: “Le Hague”
  • Ladin: “The Hague”
  • Latin: “Haga Comintum”
  • Latin: “Haga Comitatum”
  • Latin: “Haga Comitis”
  • Latin: “Haga Comitum”
  • Latin: “Haga”
  • Latvian: “Den Haag”
  • Latvian: “Hāga”
  • Latvian: “Hague”
  • Ligurian: “L’Aia”
  • Ligurian: “L’Aja”
  • Limburgan: “D’n Haag”
  • Limburgan: “D’n Haog”
  • Limburgan: “Den Haag”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Den Haag”
  • Lithuanian: “Den Haag”
  • Lithuanian: “Haga”
  • Lombard: “L’Aja”
  • Low German: “Den Haag”
  • Low German: “N Haag”
  • Low German: “N Heag”
  • Low German: “n Heeg”
  • Low German: “N Heeg”
  • Low German: “N Hoag”
  • Luxembourgish: “Den Haag”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Haye”
  • Macedonian: “Хаг”
  • Malagasy: “Den Haag”
  • Malay: “Den Haag”
  • Malay: “Hague”
  • Malay: “The Hague”
  • Malayalam: “ഹേഗ്”
  • Maltese: “Den Haag”
  • Maltese: “L-Aja”
  • Maltese: “The Hague”
  • Maori: “Te Hēke”
  • Marathi: “द हेग”
  • Marathi: “हेग”
  • Mazanderani: “لاهه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Den Haag”
  • Moksha: “Гаага”
  • Mongolian: “Гааг хот”
  • Mongolian: “Хааг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Den Haag”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “‘s Gravenhage”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den Haag”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haag”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “’s-Gravenhage”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den Haag”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den Hague”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haag”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hague”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Haye”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “S’Gravenhage”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Hague”
  • Norwegian: “Haag”
  • Novial: “Den Haag”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “L’Aia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܢ ܗܐܟ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Se Heċġ”
  • Ossetian: “Гаагæ”
  • Ossetian: “Гаага”
  • Pampanga: “Áya”
  • Pampanga: “Ing Áya”
  • Pangasinan: “Aya”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੇਗ”
  • Papiamento: “‘s Gravenhage”
  • Papiamento: “Den Haag”
  • Persian: “دن هاخ”
  • Persian: “لاهه”
  • Piemontese: “L’Aja”
  • Polish: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Polish: “Den Haag”
  • Polish: “Haga”
  • Polish: “La Haye”
  • Portuguese: “‘S-Gravenhage”
  • Portuguese: “A Haia”
  • Portuguese: “Den Haag”
  • Portuguese: “Haia”
  • Portuguese: “S-Gravenhage”
  • Portuguese: “The Hague”
  • Pushto: “دِن هاخ”
  • Quechua: “Den Haag”
  • Romanian: “Den Haag”
  • Romanian: “Haga”
  • Russian: “The Hague”
  • Russian: “Гаага”
  • Russian: “Ден Хааг”
  • Russian: “Ден-Хааг”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Den Haag”
  • Scots: “The Hague”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Den Haag”
  • Serbian: “Den Haag”
  • Serbian: “Ден Хаг”
  • Serbian: “Хаг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Deen Haag”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Den Haag”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Haag”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hag”
  • Sicilian: “Den Haag”
  • Sicilian: “L’Aia”
  • Silesian: “Den Haag”
  • Sindhi: “هيگ”
  • Sinhala: “ද හේග්”
  • Slovak: “Den Haag”
  • Slovak: “Haag”
  • Slovenian: “Den Haag”
  • Slovenian: “Haag”
  • Slovenian: “The Hague”
  • Somali: “Den Haag”
  • Somali: “Den Haakh”
  • Somali: “Denhaag”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاهه”
  • Spanish: “‘s-gravenhage”
  • Spanish: “‘s-gravenhague”
  • Spanish: “Den Haag”
  • Spanish: “La Haya”
  • Spanish: “The Hague”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Aga”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Den Haag”
  • Sundanese: “Den Haag”
  • Sundanese: “Dén Haag”
  • Sundanese: “Dén Hag”
  • Swahili: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Swahili: “Den Haag”
  • Swahili: “The Hague”
  • Swedish: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Swedish: “Den Haag”
  • Swedish: “Gravenhage”
  • Swedish: “Haag”
  • Swedish: “S-Gravenhage”
  • Swiss German: “Den Haag”
  • Sylheti: “ꠖꠦꠘ ꠢꠣꠉ”
  • Tagalog: “Ang Aya”
  • Tagalog: “Ang Hague”
  • Tagalog: “Ang Haya”
  • Tagalog: “Aya”
  • Tagalog: “Hague”
  • Tagalog: “The Hague”
  • Tajik: “Гаага”
  • Talysh: “Haaga”
  • Talysh: “Haaqa”
  • Tamil: “டென் ஹாக்”
  • Tamil: “த ஹேக்”
  • Tamil: “ஹேக்”
  • Tatar: “Haaga”
  • Tatar: “Гаага”
  • Tatar: “Һааг”
  • Telugu: “ది హాగ్”
  • Thai: “The Hague”
  • Thai: “กรุงเฮก”
  • Thai: “เดอะเฮก”
  • Thai: “สกราเวนฮาเกอ”
  • Thai: “เฮก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Den Haag”
  • Turkish: “Den Haag”
  • Turkish: “La Haye”
  • Turkish: “Lahey”
  • Turkish: “The Hague”
  • Uighur: “Xagwé”
  • Uighur: “خاگۋې”
  • Uighur: “لاھەي”
  • Ukrainian: “The Hague”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаага”
  • Ukrainian: “Гааґа”
  • Urdu: “ہیگ”
  • Uzbek: “Gaaga”
  • Venetian: “Den Haag”
  • Venetian: “L’Aia”
  • Venetian: “L’Aja”
  • Veps: “Hag”
  • Vietnamese: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Vietnamese: “Den Haag”
  • Vietnamese: “Hague”
  • Vietnamese: “La Hay”
  • Vietnamese: “La Haye”
  • Vietnamese: “La-hay”
  • Vietnamese: “LaHay”
  • Vietnamese: “The Hague”
  • Vlaams: “Den Haag”
  • Volapük: “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Volapük: “’s-Gravenhage”
  • Volapük: “Den Haag”
  • Walloon: “Li Hâr”
  • Walloon: “Li Hår”
  • Waray (Philippines): “‘s-Gravenhage”
  • Waray (Philippines): “An Haga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Den Haag”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hague”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Haya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “The Hague”
  • Welsh: “’s-Gravenhage”
  • Welsh: “Den Haag”
  • Welsh: “The Hague”
  • Welsh: “Y Hague”
  • Welsh: “Yr Hâg”
  • Western Armenian: “Հաագա”
  • Western Frisian: “De Haach”
  • Western Frisian: “Den Haach”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “海牙”
  • Yakut: “Гаага”
  • Yiddish: “דען האג”
  • Yue Chinese: “海牙”
  • Zeeuws: “D’n ‘Aegt”
  • Zeeuws: “D’n Aegt”
  • Zeeuws: “D’n Haeg”
  • Zeeuws: “Den ‘Aeg”
  • Zeeuws: “Den Aeg”
  • Zeeuws: “Den Haag”
  • Zeeuws: “Den Haeg”
  • “Den Haag”
  • “L’Aja”
  • “ma Kapenake”
  • “ma Sapenake”
  • “ma Ten A”
  • “ma Tena”
  • “ma tomo Kapenake”
  • “ma tomo Sapenake”
  • “ma tomo Ten A”
  • “ma tomo Tena”

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