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Zuid-Holland is situated along the North Sea in the estuary of the Rhine and Maas. The province is known for its elongated beaches, dunes, colourful bulb areas, stretched out polders, cheese farms, historical windmills and peat pools. The continental coast is determined by dunes and seaside resorts as Noordwijk, Katwijk and Scheveningen, all originated from small fishermen villages. Behind the coast we find the urban sites of Den Haag and Leiden and up North to it the bulb region. Zuid-Holland is due to its high population pressure a province with big contrasts. Between the beaches and polders it is more and more proliferating with the necessary space for harbour- and industrial areas, greenhouses and bulb fields, cities and villages.
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