Location
Location of the host city in the Netherlands. For more details on the host city, see The Hague.The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants, and more than one million inhabitants including the suburbs, it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre of the Haaglanden conurbation and lies at the southwest corner of the larger Randstad conurbation.
The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government and parliament, the Supreme Court, and the Council of State, but the city is not the capital of the Netherlands which constitutionally is Amsterdam. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives at Huis ten Bosch and works at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. Most foreign embassies in the Netherlands and 150 international organisations are located in the city, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which makes The Hague one of the major cities hosting the United Nations, along with New York, Vienna and Geneva. Nederlands Congrescentrum (presently known as The World Forum Convention Center) was the venue for the twenty-first edition of Eurovision. The venue was constructed in 1969.
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