[svandamme]

technically Holland is not the same as The Netherlands, or so the Dutch like to say.
Holland is the part of Holland that's by the coast, the stuff higher up north and to the German border would not be Holland anymore, but still the Netherlands.

Nobody outside Holland could care less really, it's all the same :
bad beer, flat land, and more likely then not, most of it will be called "North Sea" somewhere in the future.