Why was Holland renamed The Netherlands?

Question

Why do people still call the Netherlands, Holland and vice versa.

Why not just use one or the other??

Answer 1

Modern day Holland is two of the original thirteen states of The Netherlands.

Answer 2

In English I guess it means Forgotten,left behind though I cant figure out why?

probably was inundated and left as swamp?

Answer 3

Both names are used indistinctly.

Holland, is the name given to the group of provinces that comprise the old brabant and the north of what is now Belgium....hollow land (or low land,) as well as the provinces of Maastrich,  Flanders, East Friesland, the frison Islands, etc-...

However, in the Old German and Saxon "Nieder", means "low" and Land speaks for itself.  (Plural for Land in old German, is Landern) Niederlanden (low lands) is the proper name chosen by actual inhabitants of those two countries, although, for political and convenience purposes, Netherlands, refers only to the country that we do know as Holland....(although the northern part of Belgium, in physical geography, should be included too, by definition)

Answer 4

Holland wasn't renamed the Netherlands.

The correct name is the Netherlands

In Dutch it's Nederland (low land)

But official it's "Koninkrijk der Nederlanden" (Kingdom of the low lands)

Holland is only 2 provinces, North Holland and South Holland.

The reason that everybody calls Nederland Holland is probebly because the 2 main harbours (Rotterdam and Amsterdam) are in these provinces. Rotterdam in South Holland and Amsterdam in North Holland.

So in the old days sailors who came here came to Holland.

Between 1806 and 1810 the 2 provinces of Holland were even a seperate kingdom with Napoleon brother Lodewijk as king.