10 Geography of The Hague

The Beatrixkwartier is a modern financial district in The Hague, near the Central Station, in the Bezuidenhout district. The name was thought up when they were renewing the Beatrixlaan. Officially this area is the strip of buildings along the Utrechtsebaan from Nationale Nederlanden to the Palace of Justice. Besides Nationale Nederlanden, many large international companies such as KPN, Siemens, PostNL, Sdu, Deloitte, Q8 and MN Services are located here.

The city of The Hague, Netherlands, consists of eight districts. 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.

Forepark is a business park in The Hague, Netherlands, east of the Prins Clausplein highway interchange. It was developed in the 1990s, together with the nearby residential neighbourhood Leidschenveen. Originally part of the municipality of Leidschendam, it was annexed by The Hague in 2002 and now falls under the district of Leidschenveen-Ypenburg. Since 2007, Forepark is home to Cars Jeans Stadion, the home stadium of ADO Den Haag. Since the construction of the RandstadRail network, the business park is connected to the metro line between Rotterdam and the city centre of The Hague via Forepark Station.

The Hofvijver is a pond in the centre of The Hague, Netherlands. It is adjoined in the east by the Korte Vijverberg (road), in the south by the Binnenhof and the Mauritshuis, in the west by the Buitenhof and in the north by the Lange Vijverberg (road). In the middle there is a small island with plants and trees which has no name, it is usually referred to as "the island in the Vijverberg".

Kijkduin en Ockenburgh is a Dutch subdistrict of the Loosduinen district in The Hague. The subdistrict is located in the western part of The Hague at the municipal border of Monster. The area is bordered by the North Sea, an imaginary line between beach pole 105 and the De Savornin Lohmanlaan, the Machiel Vrijenhoeklaan, the Duinlaan, the Kijkduinsestraat, the Ockenburghstraat, the Loosduinse Hoofdstraat, the Monsterseweg and the municipal border with Monster. As the name suggests, the subdistrict consists of two neighborhoods Kijkduin and Ockenburgh.

The Vliet is a canal in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It starts at the Oude Rijn at Leiden and joins the Delfshavense Schie canal at Delft. Places along its banks include Voorschoten, Leidschendam, Voorburg, The Hague and Rijswijk.

The Waalsdorpervlakte is an open place in the dune area "Meijendel", where between 250 and 280 members of the Dutch resistance were killed by the Germans during World War II. It is also the site were the top Nazi collaborators were executed.

The Willemspark is a neighbourhood in the Centrum district of The Hague, Netherlands. It has 1,393 inhabitants and covers an area of 34.6 hectares (0.134 sq mi). It is bordered by the Zeestraat to the south-east, the Scheveningseveer, the Mauritskade and the Dr. Kuyperstraat to the south-east, the Prinsessegracht to the north-east and the Javastraat to the north-west. The park was originally property of king William II, but he sold the area to the municipality of The Hague in 1855, after which it became a villa park. Iconic to the neighbourhood are the Alexanderstraat and the Sophialaan that intersect on Plein 1813. This square is marked by a monument commemorating the defeat of Napoleon and the establishment of the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands.

Zorgvliet is a neighbourhood in the Scheveningen district of The Hague, Netherlands. It is named after the estate of the same name, once owned by the poet and writer Jacob Cats,, later by 18th century politician Willem Bentinck van Rhoon and later again becoming the official residence of the Dutch Prime Minister. It has 377 inhabitants and covers an area of 876 hectares (3.38 sq mi). It is bordered by the Laan van Meerdervoort, the Groot Hertoginnelaan, the Stadhouderslaan, the Stadhoudersplantsoen and the Eisenhowerlaan. Zorgvliet is the location of The Hague's "international zone", which is home to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Europol and the World Forum Convention Center. The Peace Palace, housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice, is also located in Zorgvliet. Moreover, Zorgvliet is the location of the Museum Mesdag, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Museon.