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1 day ago · The Dutch ( Dutch: Nederlanders ⓘ) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common ancestry and culture and speak the Dutch language.
3 days ago · The Dutch Republic originated from medieval statelets, and its legal successor, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, has attracted countless immigrants through the centuries. A strong impetus was the principle of freedom of thought, which engendered the relative tolerance that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries.
3 days ago · The Netherlands is bounded by the North Sea to the north and west, Germany to the east, and Belgium to the south. If the Netherlands were to lose the protection of its dunes and dikes, the most densely populated part of the country would be inundated (largely by the sea but also in part by the rivers).
4 days ago · KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS: FACTS. Capital: Amsterdam, (government) The Hague. Area: 41,850 sq km. Population: 17.7 million. Languages: Dutch, also West Frisian, Papiamento, English. Life...
3 days ago · The people of the northern Netherlands began to be distinguished from the inhabitants of the south (to whom the name Flemings continued to cling) by the appellation Hollanders (French: Hollandais; Italian: Olandese; German: Holländer; and so forth), after their principal province. The English, however, came to apply exclusively to the ...
3 days ago · Dutch ( endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language [4] and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (or 60% of the population ...
3 days ago · The Netherlands is located in Western Europe on the North Sea, bordered by Germany and Belgium. The country’s name is quite appropriate, as about one quarter of the Netherlands is below...
