Spoorwijk is a residential neighbourhood in the Laak district of

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 ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

. Its name, literally ''rail neighbourhood'' or ''track neighbourhood'', originated from the fact that the area borders the

Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway The railway from Amsterdam through Haarlem to Rotterdam (also: ''Oude Lijn'', Dutch for "old line") runs from Amsterdam Centraal to Rotterdam Centraal through Haarlem. From December 2011 it is used by all direct trains from Amsterdam to The ...

on the west. The neighbourhood has 4,161 inhabitants and covers an area of 33,3 ha.Den Haag in Cijfers
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Bewonersorganisatie Spoorwijk
Neighbourhoods of The Hague {{SouthHolland-geo-stub