The city of

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, consists of eight districts (''

stadsdelen A stadsdeel (; pl. ''stadsdelen''; lit. ''city part'') is the name used for urban or municipality districts in some of the larger municipalities of the Netherlands. Amsterdam calls 7 of its 8 ''deelgemeenten'' ''stadsdeel''. They form a level of ...

'', singular ''stadsdeel''). Each district is divided into subdistricts (''wijken''). Each of these stadsdelen has its own district office (''stadsdeelkantoor''), where most of the local government activity is organised. These stadsdeelkantoren make many aspects of local government more accessible to residents. The current division of The Hague into individual ''stadsdelen'' was created in 1988 by the main city government. This division of The Hague into ''wijken'' and ''buurten'' (neighbourhoods) deviates from the 1953 divisions that had been known to many residents.

List of districts

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{{Reflist Geography of The Hague