The two provinces are Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. The name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for these 2 of its 12 provinces. Holland is also an unofficial name for the country as a whole.
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