Westland (municipality), Netherlands

Westland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɛstlɑnt] ⓘ) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

Towns and other settlements: De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk, Wateringen, Heenweg, Honselersdijk, Kwintsheul, Maasdijk, Poeldijk, and Ter Heijde.

Westland was created on 1 January 2004 by a merger of the municipalities De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk and Wateringen.

[6] The town of Honselersdijk also possesses the largest Flower Auction, FloraHolland, which also has a location in Rijnsburg.

It is not unknown for every holiday campsite to be fully booked with tourists because of their relative proximity to the more popular Scheveningen.

Dutch Topographic map of Westland, July 2013
Aerial view of Westland (in the image center); behind it: Hook of Holland (the sharp-shaped promontory ), Europoort (in between the two rivers), and Maasvlakte (protruding into the sea)
Franco Petri Burgersdijk, ca.1620
Maria van Aerden-Ponderus, ca.1700
Kees Broekman, 1968
Mandy van den Berg, 2011