What is the capital of the Netherlands?

The Netherlands is the clearest case of a country whose capital is a title rather than an address.

What the constitution says

Article 32 of the Dutch constitution requires the monarch to be sworn in "in the capital city Amsterdam". That is the only mention, and it is enough: Amsterdam is the capital, by name, in the founding document.

What is actually in The Hague

• The States General, both chambers of parliament
• The Council of Ministers and the prime minister, at the Binnenhof
• The Supreme Court and the Council of State
• The monarch's working palace, Noordeinde, and the royal residence at Huis ten Bosch
• Every foreign embassy

The Hague has held the government since the counts of Holland made it their seat in the thirteenth century, long before the Dutch state existed. Amsterdam got the title when the Kingdom of the Netherlands was created in 1815, and the government did not move.

And the international courts

The Hague also hosts the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which is why it is sometimes described as an international capital. Those institutions are not Dutch, and they have nothing to do with the question.

Which to say

Amsterdam is the capital. The Hague is the seat of government. Both sentences are true and neither is a correction of the other. It is the same shape as Bolivia and Côte d'Ivoire.