Notes

• This list is about places in our genealogy data (for places in the Netherlands see Place lookup).  The list is not finished;  there still are –and probably always will be– several points requiring further investigation.
  • To find a place, click on the corresponding first letter in the frame above.
  • To get this Help-text, click on Help on the far right in the above frame.
• To locate the places, the list below includes the municipality (Dutch: gemeente), possibly a region, and always the province (Dutch: provincie).
  • All places are in The Netherlands, unless explicitly noted otherwise.
  • For places in the USA you will find —when known— the corresponding county and state.
  • The Dutch provinces are always indicated with 2 letters in 'mixed case' to distinguish them from the US states (all caps).
• Some names occur in more than one province (then the province should be indicated at the source).
• This Place Browser uses JavaScript for sorting;  you may need to enable scripting for proper working.  When JavaScript is available, you can sort on Place (default), Municipality/­County, Region/­State or Province/Country by clicking on the corresponding header.
  • The sort is always ascending (A → Z).
  • The sort is 'stable' (i.e. if the values in the column you are sorting are the same, it will keep the original order).  E.g. if you want the list sorted on Province and then on Municipality, first sort on Municipality then on Province (sort in the reverse significance).
  • You can still use the first letters in the frame above to jump in the sorted list.
• See also Dutch spelling and alphabetic ordering.
• Some places do no longer exist under their former name but have become part of a larger town or municipality;  in such a case the current name is also indicated.  There were also several merges and shifts between municipalities, in particular in the last decades ('gemeentelijke herindeling' = municipal rearrangement).
• In the past a town and its surroundings were sometimes organised as two administrative entities, typically called ‘… Stad’ and ‘… Ambt’.  Later these administrative entities were merged.
  Similarly, the adjective ‘Compagnie’ is sometimes used to indicate the rural surroundings of the named town (similar to 'La Campagne' in French).  A ‘… Compagnie’ is usually not a separate administative entity.
• In the province of Friesland they have a language of their own:  Frisian.  As Friesland is part of The Netherlands, many places there have two names:  a Frisian and a Dutch variant.  The language uses some letters not found in Dutch, e.g. the Æ-ligature as in Ængwirden.
• 'Holland' formally indicates the provinces Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland (North-Holland and South-Holland respectively), i.e. the western, most crowded, industrious and historically important part of The Netherlands.  But often Holland is also used to indicate the whole of The Netherlands, similar to the use of England for the whole of the Great Britan.  Because of this ambiguity, we will not use Holland here.
• Indonesia was a Dutch colony until 1949, and many Dutch lived and died there.  The Dutch used to indicate this area as Indië (not to be confused with India).

Abbreviations:

Dr	Drente (province)
Fr	Friesland (province); in Frisian: Fryslân
Fl	Flevoland (12th province) (polders)
gem.	gemeente (= municipality)
Gl	Gelderland (province); regions: Achterhoek, Betuwe & Veluwe
Gr	Groningen (province); capital is also called Groningen
Ind.	Indonesia (former Dutch colony Nederlands Indië = Dutch East Indies)
Lb	Limburg (province)
mun.	municipality (= 'gemeente')
Nb	Noord-Brabant (province)
Nh	Noord-Holland (province)
NL	Nederland (= The Netherlands)
Ov	Overijssel (province); region: Twente
prov.	province (= 'provincie')
UK	United Kingdom
USA	United States of America (states)
Ut	Utrecht (province); capital is also called Utrecht
Zh	Zuid-Holland (province)
Zl	Zeeland (province)

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