Provinces of the Netherlands

Name the twelve provinces of the Netherlands.

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First submitted	May 3, 2012
Times taken	27,264
Average score	66.7%
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Province

Drenthe

Flevoland

Friesland

Gelderland

Groningen

Limburg

Noord Brabant

Noord Holland

Overijssel

Utrecht

Zeeland

Zuid Holland

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Level 76

Dec 9, 2015

Oh no, having read thousands of times that Holland is just a province I thought that would be an easy guess... didn't think of adding North and South!

+27

Level 66

Jan 27, 2019

Welcome to the Great nation of Holland: where the tulips grow, the windmills turn, the breakfast is chocolatey, the people industrious, and the sea tries to drown it all.

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Level 74

Oct 12, 2019

Except....

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Level 85

Feb 7, 2020

This country isn't Holland.

Level 67

Mar 29, 2020

r/unexpectedcgpgrey

Level 60

Dec 29, 2020

Ah yes CGP Grey

+10

Level 64

Mar 26, 2016

Thanks EU4! :)

Level 32

Apr 27, 2016

My thoughts exactly

Level 53

Mar 30, 2016

Very happy that you put the Limburgish flag in the image! :)

Level 65

Apr 27, 2016

King's day today! Apparently I was born in the second least guessed and now live in the least guessed province...They should send more tourists our way :)

Level 70

Apr 27, 2016

How thoughtful to show this quiz on the front page today. :) Happy King's Day everyone! Fijne Koningsdag!

Level 37

Mar 28, 2022

dan ben ik jarig then is my birthday

Level 77

Apr 27, 2016

So weird to move that holiday 3 days and then change the name. It's never even been called King's Day before, Princess's Day or Queen's Day. Beatrix didn't move it even if it wasn't her birthday.

I got 8/12 and feel a bit ashamed. I lived 4 years in Limburg after all.

Level 61

Apr 28, 2016

Well, I believe the reason why Beatrix didn't change the date of Queen's day when she got on the throne is because of the fact that her birthday is somewhere in january. The weather is (generally) much nicer in april and since there are so much outdoor activities on Queen's day she chose not to change it. For Willem-Alexander the situation is different because his birthday is in april as well. I wonder what his eldest child Amalia will choose to do for Queen's day when she'll be queen, since her birthday is in december.

Level 37

Oct 4, 2016

It could also be that Beatrix left it as April 30th out of love and respect for her Mother, Queen Juliana. How sad that the younger generation suffers such a dearth of appreciation for their elders.

Level 61

Apr 28, 2016

Me being an American and knowing only very basic Dutch geography (if that), I literally got zero on my first try! I did try Holland, although I didn't realize there was a North and South.

Level 70

Jun 21, 2016

100%

Level 46

Feb 11, 2018

I saw in a video that Holland refers to North Holland and South Holland, so I got those two, but other than that.............

Level 68

Aug 28, 2016

really surprised that Fryslân is 4th most guessed! would've thought Utrecht and Limburg would be higher...

Level 74

May 31, 2017

Actually Fryslân is the correct name for the province. "Friesland" is a translation, but not the offical version. Fryslân should be the name which shows up (even though both should be acceptable answers).

Level 74

Jun 13, 2018

@Daan. Without going into the dialect/language question, the name of the province is really Fryslân, whether another name is more common or not. A little like Ivory Coast, we can all call it that, still doesn't mean it's the name of the country (which is Cote D'Ivoire). The offical website will only show the Frisian name, even if you display the site in Dutch rather than Frisian: https://www.fryslan.frl/

Level 24

May 9, 2018

In the UK, Friesian cows possibly contribute partly to name recognition, for my part, it's one of four northern provinces I have yet to visit/drive through. Once you have visited a few times it gets fairly easy to remember which you have and haven't visited and as such one of the easier (for me at least), geography quizzes.

Level 50

Aug 7, 2018

@Daan: Frisian is not a dialect. It's a language. And it's actually more closely related to English than to Dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisians#Language

Level 59

Aug 3, 2020

There's no scientific, linguistic difference between a "language" and a "dialect". The distinction is political.

Level 69

Dec 28, 2017

My ancestors immigrated to the US from Groningen and Zeeland.

Level 76

Dec 1, 2018

South Holland is out of alphabetical order.

Level 93

Dec 14, 2018

if in dutch like the rest north and south in the answers should be noord and zuid and would be in the right place.

Level 75

Mar 31, 2021

Hi Cwej,

First of all thanks you for this great quiz!

I wanted to tell you that I have made a French version of this quiz. I am sorry I didn't ask you first. If it bother you I can delete my version.

Level 64

Jun 28, 2021

Any reason why 'Guelders' isn't accepted for Gelderland? It's a pretty common English-language version of the name that goes back to the middle ages.

Level 43

Nov 9, 2021

Level 60

Feb 16, 2022

HOW DO PEOPLE KNOW THIS (except from euiv i can understand that)

Level 38

Aug 24, 2023

because some people are european and live in the country (or next to it, like me)

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