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Netherlands scrapping its nickname
January 2 , 2020
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- The Netherlands has officially announced to drop the nickname ‘Holland’ from January 2020.
- Even the Netherlands’ Board of Tourism and Conventions is also scrapping its symbol featuring a tulip, the national flower, and the word “Holland” and replacing it with a new logo that has an orange tulip and the initials “NL.”
- ‘Holland’ refers only to the following two of the 12 provinces in the Netherlands.
- North-Holland, where Amsterdam is located, and
- South Holland consisting of Rotterdam and The Hague.
- But the name ‘Holland’ often used to describe the whole nation.
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