
Laak () is district of
The Hague
The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
,
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. With a population of and an area of , it is the smallest and least populous of the city's eight districts. The district is officially divided into three neighbourhoods:
Laakkwartier,
Spoorwijk and
Binckhorst.
[Laak]
. Denhaag.nl. The Hague University of Applied Sciences can be found in Laak.
The municipality of The Hague bought the area from the municipality of
Rijswijk in 1844. The
Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway was constructed in this polder, together with the railway station
Hollands Spoor. In the period between 1915 and 1935, the municipality developed a residential neighbourhood in Laak, designed by Dutch architect
Berlage.
References
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Boroughs of The Hague