Laak has been a district of The Hague since 1988. It has an area of 4.27 km², making it the smallest of those districts in The Hague. In 2017, 42,405 people lived there.

The following neighborhoods belong to the district:

In this polder region, now called Laak and named after the peat river De Laak, the Amsterdam-The Hague-Rotterdam railway line was constructed, with a station on the website of the recent Hollands Spoor station, which is located on the outskirts of The Hague at Rijswijks. territory. The municipality Moving company The Hague claimed the area from the municipality of Rijswijk in 1844 for an annual (non-indexed) fee of 400 guilders[2] and was actually an annexation. The reason for this was to guarantee safety around the station and sufficient police supervision was demanded, but Rijswijk and its two field guards were unable to achieve this.
Around 1900, the Laak Canal and the harbors were dug, where the company was established. Almost the entire industrial area has been transformed into a campus of The Hague University of Applied Sciences and a residential area with (student) flats.
The housing associations and the municipality built public housing in the form of Berlage in the Laakkwartier, especially in the period 1915-1935. This building was partly replaced by modern new construction of single-family homes and apartments in low- and high-rise buildings.