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The Hague (with capital T; Den Haag , , officially also , ) is the third largest city in the Netherlands , after Amsterdam and , with a population of 485,818 (as of May 31, 2009) and an area of approximately 100 km . It is located in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland , of which it is also the provincial capital. The Hague is the centre of a conurbation called Haaglanden (population 1,011,459) and lies at the southwest corner of a larger conurbation called the .

The Hague is the seat of the Dutch parliament , government and capital of the Netherlands which is a role set aside in the for Amsterdam ). lives and embassies and government ministries are located in the city, as well as the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Supreme Court), the lobbying organisations.

The Hague is also the seat of over 150 international organisations , including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court . It is one of the major cities of the , along with New York and Geneva .

History

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 Count of Holland and Floris V , of which the speech from the throne by the monarch .

Name and status

Later, the counts of Holland used The Hague as their administrative centre and residence when in Holland. 'Des Graven Hage' literally means "the count's wood", with connotations like "the count's hedge or private enclosure ".

When 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 Louis Napoleon (1806) The Hague has been allowed to call itself a city.

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