Hook of Holland

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Hook of Holland

Total population

10,212

Coordinates51.98°, 4.13°

Demographic figures from CBS Netherlands. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Hook of Holland is a coastal village in the southwestern corner of Holland, hence the name; hoek means "corner" and was in use before the word kaap – "cape". The English translation using Hook is a false friend of the Dutch Hoek, but has become commonplace in the Netherlands. It is located at the mouth of the New Waterway shipping canal into the North Sea. The village is administered as a district of the municipality of Rotterdam. Its district covers an area of 18.53 km2, of which 14.19 km2 is land. On 1 January 2023 it had an estimated population of 10,560.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Hugo María Van Steekelenburg

Dutch catholic bishop

Anton Eduard van Arkel

Dutch chemist (1893-1976)

Oscar Moens

Dutch footballer

J

Jan Justus Dingemans

H

Hans Strikwerda

Dutch organizational theorist

S

Stefan Aartsen

Dutch swimmer

Arent van 's-Gravesande

Dutch architect (1610–1662)

Daniëlle Overgaag

Dutch cyclist and TV presenter

W

Wil den Hollander

Dutch writer (1915-2000)

Huub Kortekaas

Dutch sculptor (1935–2024)

Wim van der Voort

Dutch speed skater (1923–2016)

L

Leon van Nieuwkerk

Dutch football player

B

Bastiaan Jan Ader

Hans Kuyper

Dutch writer (*1962)

M

Marinus Dijkhuizen

Dutch footballer

Belinda Meuldijk

Dutch actress, writer, and activist (born 1955)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in South Holland

• Heenweg
  2.1 mi away · pop. 690
• 's-Gravenzande
  2.2 mi away · pop. 21,130
• Naaldwijk
  3.4 mi away · pop. 20,295
• Monster
  3.6 mi away · pop. 13,900
• Maasdijk
  3.8 mi away · pop. 4,340
• Ter Heijde
  4 mi away · pop. 685
• Honselersdijk
  4.7 mi away · pop. 7,565
• De Lier
  4.9 mi away · pop. 12,220
• Brielle
  5.4 mi away · pop. 13,407
• Kwintsheul
  5.9 mi away · pop. 3,660
• Tinte
  6.2 mi away · pop. 245
• Maassluis
  6.5 mi away · pop. 32,484

Browse all places in South Holland →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Hook of Holland

Walking the woods and the water

Nick Hunt · 2014

Sailing directions for the south part of the North Sea

Charles Wilson · 1878

The Story of The Committee of 300

John Coleman · 2000

The history of Detroit and Michigan

Silas Farmer · 1884

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Dendrocopos major

Seen 2026-10-03

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

Seen 2026-10-03

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Seen 2026-10-03

Eurasian Magpie

Pica pica

Seen 2026-10-03

Eurasian Jay

Garrulus glandarius

Seen 2026-10-03

Common Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

Seen 2026-10-02

Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Seen 2026-10-02

Brambling

Fringilla montifringilla

Seen 2026-10-02

Eurasian Wryneck

Jynx torquilla

Seen 2026-10-02

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).