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The Netherlands is the official name of our country.

Foreigners often use the name Holland, which refers to the largest and richest province our country had during the Golden Age (17th century). People from other countries trading with e.g. the VOC (East-Indian trading Company) referred to the Netherlands as Holland, because every merchant they encountered came from that region. The name stuck throughout history, but it's not official.

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New York mainly, which then was called Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam)

Other settlements of New Netherland were in what is now New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut.

New York's Brooklyn comes from the New Netherland's name Breuckelen for that area.

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New York. The Duke of York (England) forced the Dutch under Peter Stuyvesant out of the area and renamed it New York.

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New York.

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