Regions


Dutch Coast

The Dutch coast is dominated by broad sandy beaches and extensive dune ridges.

Wadden Sea area

The Wadden Sea area is - with is dune islands and richness of birds and seals - one of the most important nature areas of Europe.
Texel: the largest Dutch Wadden island.
Vlieland: one of the smallest Wadden islands.
Terschelling: largest and most varied Frisian Wadden island.
Ameland: there are four villages: Nes, Hollum, Ballum en Buren.
Schiermonnikoog: the smallest West Frisian island in the possession of the Netherlands which is inhabited.

Groningen

The coast of Groningen offers the spaciousness and quietness that has gone lost almost everywhere else.

Frisian coast

The Frisian coast is a place of peace and tranquillity, of nature and water.

North Holland
The extremely varied province of North Holland includes an extensive peat moor and polder landscape between the North Sea and the former Zuyder Zee, as well as a part of the Wadden Sea and a West Frisian island (Texel).

South Holland

The province of South Holland is a province of glaring contrasts due to its high population density. An increasingly large number of conflicts occurs in the space between the beaches and the polders, which is a harbour area and industrial zone, and where greenhouses, bulb fields, towns and villages are found.
The Bulbs district is dominated by sand dunes, bulb fields and rapidly expanding villages. The extensive bulb fields make the region one of the most colourful in the world, at least in spring.


Zeeland

Zeeland is the most authentic coastal province of the Netherlands. No villages are further than 17 km from the sea or a former sea arm. The deltas of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt offer a great diversity of ecosystems: river arms and estuaries, mudflats and saltings, beaches and dunes, dikes and refuge mounds.