North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant [ˈnoːrd ˈbraːbɑnt]), also unofficially called Brabant since 2001, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium's Antwerp and Limburg provinces in the south, the Meuse River (Maas) in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.