Guys , he lives in Philly . It should be the Owls and you both know it . <| sep |> I ' m pretty sure the Netherlands , as a nation , knows much better what they call themselves . we just don ' t make a big fuzz of it when other nations call us by the wrong name . I ' m getting pretty amused now why you are getting so upset about such a simple fact . The British call us Holland . We call ourselves the Netherlands . Both aren ' t wrong from a relative stand point , but by international law and what the average Dutch person will say calling it Holland is very wrong . A little history lesson from the Wiki I linked you The Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland , a constitutional monarchy , was established by the Constitutie voor het Koningrijk Holland on 7 August 1806 . By calling it Holland you are denying our independence and freedom and labeling us as part of France .