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Holland is not the Netherlands

Shame on you, a Scottish newspaper, including a supplement for "Holland" which includes Utrecht.

That city is in the province of Utrecht, not Holland. What would you have thought of a Dutch newspaper supplement entitled "England" including features on Glasgow? Your supplement should have been entitled "Netherlands" which would have covered all 12 provinces, of which North and South Holland are only two.

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