On January 1, 2020, the name "Holland" disappeared from the world map. Now the country has only one name left - the Netherlands.

The Netherlands vs. Holland. The official name of the country is the Kingdom of the Netherlands. So how did it come to be commonly referred to as Holland?

The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces, and two of these provinces combined — Noord- and Zuid-Holland (North and South Holland) — actually make up Holland, as Holland.com explains.