The Laan van Meerdervoort () is an

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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 ...

. At a length of 5.8 km, it is (as of 2011) the longest avenue in the

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.'De Laan van Meerdervoort, een stuk contemporaine Haagsche historie' in ''Het Vaderland'', 19 September 1940
Historische Kranten KB The Laan van Meerdervoort is more or less an isogloss of two subvarieties of

The Hague dialect The Hague dialect (Standard Dutch: ''Haags'', ''het Haagse dialect''; The Hague dialect: ''Haags'', ''et Haagse dialek'') is a dialect of Dutch mostly spoken in The Hague. It differs from Standard Dutch almost exclusively in pronunciation. It h ...

. The posher variety called ''dàftig'', ''Haegs'' or ''bekakt Haags'' is spoken roughly north of it, whereas a low-class variety called ''plat Haags'' or ''Hèègs'' is spoken roughly south of the Laan van Meerdervort.

Notable buildings

Gymnasium Haganum The Gymnasium Haganum is one of the oldest public schools in the Netherlands, located in the city of The Hague. First mentioned in 1327, the school is currently housed in a monumental Renaissance Revival architecture building, built in 1907. It ...

* Museum Mesdag

References

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