How Do You Say It?

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 3:02 am

Is it Holland or The Netherlands?

Post by **HNL** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 12:03 pm

Official: The Netherlands. But anyone knows what you means with "Holland" .

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 6:40 pm

There are North Holland (blue, at the west coast) and South Holland (green, also at the west coast). These two plus the rest are The Netherlands.

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 8:57 pm

Donald wrote:
There are North Holland (blue, at the west coast) and South Holland (green, also at the west coast). These two plus the rest are The Netherlands.

I live in the south of Holland, in the big blue one (that province is called North-Brabant, because Belgium and Holland were first one countrie, and in what is now Belgium was a province called Brabant, it still has the same name.
But I live in the blue one a few km. to the left from the point were the blue, yellow and green one come together.

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 9:08 pm

Donald...,

Where is Geilenkirchen, It sounds German but your Dutch is very good, and you 're posting many on Dutch Forum.
Your name also sounds German..

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:03 pm

Geilenkirchen is in the district of Heinsberg. We have the letters HS (Holland Süd) on our car license plates. It is 15 km from Sittard. Part of the Heinsberg district (so called Selfkant) have been Dutch territory until 1962. I live here since 2001. And I am working in the goldmine of the queen of Saba.

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:23 pm

Donald wrote:Geilenkirchen is in the district of Heinsberg. We have the letters HS (Holland Süd) on our car license plates. It is 15 km from Sittard. Part of the Heinsberg district (so called Selfkant) have been Dutch territory until 1962. I live here since 2001. And I am working in the goldmine of the queen of Saaba.

So you live in Germany, very close to the Netherlands (?)

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:26 pm

There is something wrong about the pictres from Holland with the provinces!,
A part of the red one in the middle is green, That is not right!,
Maybe someone can change it on place where he get it from.

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:28 pm

It is from Donald.
He knows were it comes from.
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Phaedrus42 · Post by **Phaedrus42** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:43 pm

Donald wrote:And I am working in the goldmine of the queen of Saaba.

whatever.

By the way, to return to the original topic: in Dutch we say "Nederland". Some people say "Holland", but mostly in a chauvinistic way. In English, I sometimes say "Holland", because I think "the Netherlands" is a stupid word. It should be "Netherland" or something like that.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 11:35 pm

Fons wrote:There is something wrong about the pictres from Holland with the provinces!,
A part of the red one in the middle is green, That is not right!,
Maybe someone can change it on place where he get it from.

Sorry, it was the only picture with all the provinces I could find. I did not check it for correctness. It is good enough to show the difference between Holland and the Netherlands.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 10:30 pm

Here you find Geilenkirchen, Fons.

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 8:36 pm

Donald wrote:
Here you find Geilenkirchen, Fons.

It's VERY close to the dutch border!

Thank you for the picture so I could see where it excactly is. (Geilenkirchen).