The Hague

The Hague ( , offeecially 's-Gravenhage ) is the caipital ceety o the province o Sooth Holland in the Netherlands.  Wi a population o 500,000 indwallers (as o 1 September 2011), an mair nor ane million indwallers includin the suburbs, it is the third lairgest ceety o the Netherlands, efter Amsterdam an Rotterdam.  Locatit in the wast o the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre o the Haaglanden conurbation an lees at the soothwast corner o the lairger Randstad conurbation.

The Hague is the seat o the Dutch govrenment an parliament, the Supreme Court, an the Cooncil o State, but the ceety is no the caipital o the Netherlands which constitutionally is Amsterdam. Noordeinde Palace, ane o the three offeecial pailaces o the Dutch ryal faimily, is locatit in The Hague an aw.  Aw foreign embassies in the Netherlands an 150 internaitional organisations are locatit in the ceety, includin the Internaitional Court o Juistice an the Internaitional Creeminal Court, which maks The Hague ane o the major ceeties hostin the Unitit Naitions, alang wi New York, Vienna an Geneva.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns an sister ceeties 
The Hague is twinned wi:
 20px Bethlehem, Palestine
 20px Juigalpa, Nicaragua
 20px Warsaw, Poland
 20px Nazareth, Israel
 20px Palembang, Indonesie

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Category:Ceeties in the Netherlands
Category:Populatit places in Sooth Holland
Category:Populatit coastal places in the Netherlands
Category:Populatit places established in the 13t century
Category:Provincial caipitals o the Netherlands
Category:Port ceeties an touns o the North Sea
Category:1248 establishments