city in Netherlands, from Dutch Den Haag, short for 's Gravenhage, literally "the count's hedge" (i.e. the hedge-enclosed hunting grounds of the counts of Holland); see haw. In French, it is La Haye.
Seat of the government of The Netherlands, located in the western Netherlands, near the North Sea.
Note: The city is frequently the site of international conferences.
Note: The International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration are both housed in the city in the Peace Palace, which was built to fulfill the dream that The Hague might become the neutral capital of the world.
district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England, occupying an area of reclaimed marshland within the Fens. It borders the Wash, a shallow bay of the North Sea, to the northeast. The dry flatlands in the north along the Wash were formed as islands of silt interspersed with marshes when large stretches of silt penned in by glaciers of the Pleistocene Epoch piled up on the shores of a shallow inland sea. Flat plains of peat farther inland were formed as plants decayed on the shallow sea bottom. Throughout the Middle Ages piecemeal encroachment upon the edges of the silt land took place for agricultural use, but the whole expanse of peat land remained virtually undrained until the mid-17th century. Spalding, an ancient market town and now the administrative centre of the district, is a headquarters for the now elaborate drainage and flood-control system of the Fens.