The name Holland ultimately stems (possibly) from holt land ("wooded land"). A popular, but incorrect, fake etymology holds that it is derived from hol land ("hollow land"), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English regionVarious terms have been used in English to refer to the Netherlands and its inhabitants.'(The) Netherlands' is the official name of the European part of the 'Kingdom of the Netherlands'. The term 'Holland' is commonly used as a synonym for the Netherlands, but the word Holland derives from a district in the west of the country that currently makes up two of the twelve provinces, namely North Holland and South Holland. The country's people and language are called 'Dutch'.