Netherlands by hanna

Background and Climate

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-Dutch United Provinces declared their independence from Spain in 1579.

- The country was a founding member of NATO and the EEC.

-October 2010, the former Netherlands Antilles was dissolved and the three smallest islands ; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba.

- The weather is temperate; marine with cool summers and mild winters.

Language and Religion and Population

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-Dutch (official) is the language.

-Religion: Roman Catholic 28%, Protestant 19% (includes Dutch Reformed 9%,

Protestant Church of The Netherlands, 7%, Calvinist 3%), other 11%

(includes about 5% Muslim and lesser numbers of Hindu, Buddhist, Jehovah's Witness, and Orthodox)

and none 42%

-16,877,351 population

Government, Capital

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-constitutional monarchy is government

-capital: Amsterdam

National Holiday

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-King's Day : celebrates the Nativity story of the Three Kings, also referred to as The Three Wise Men --Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar -- who brought gifts to baby Jesus in Bethlehem.

Flag of Netherlands

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meaning: horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. Variants of the flag have been in use since 1572, and in 1937 the flag was officially formalized as the national flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is the oldest tricolor flag still in national use.

Major Cities In the Netherlands

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Point of Interest

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The Delta Project or Delta Works are a series of constructions built between 1950 and 1997 in the provinces of Zeeland and South Holland to protect large areas of land from the sea. It is also one of the seven wonders.

Points of Interest

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Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is the largest and most prestigious museum for art and history in the Netherlands. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age

Points of Interest

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The Vrijthof is the best-known city square in Maastricht, a city in the southern most part of the Netherlands. It features the massive Saint Servatius Church and Saint Jan’s Cathedral. The Vrijthof regularly hosts large festivals at various times throughout the year, including autumn and winter festivals.

Interesting Facts of the Netherlands

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- It is made up of Holland which is my last name! :)

- Netherlands and Holland are not synonymous. Holland is largely the western coastal region of the Netherlands, comprising of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden and the Hague.

- The first country to legalize same sex marriages in 2001.

- 70% of the world's bacon comes from Netherlands.