---
id: "nl_province"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["NL"]
langs: ["nl"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/nl_province"
---

# Dutch province (`nl_province`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of one of the 12 provinces (provincies) of the Netherlands, such as Noord-Holland, Utrecht or Fryslân, which is also written Friesland. Their codes are the pattern nl_province_code.

- Parent datatype: `admin_area_1`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: Netherlands (NL)
- Languages: Dutch (nl)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `nl_cbs_province_code`

## Examples

- `Noord-Holland`
- `Utrecht`
- `Fryslân`
- `Friesland` — Fryslân, under its older official name

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.PROVINCE_NAME_NL`
- schema_org: `addressRegion`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- nl: Provincie
- ru: Провинция Нидерландов: Название одной из 12 провинций Нидерландов, например Noord-Holland, Utrecht или Fryslân (Friesland).

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Netherlands>
- wikipedia: <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincies_van_Nederland>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/nl_province.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/NL/geo/nl_province.yaml>