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- Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).
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4 days ago · “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).
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4 days ago · The rest of the country is not Holland, and the nation as a whole is the Netherlands. You might also hear references to the Randstad, the conurbation that takes in the Netherlands’ biggest cities in Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland and Utrecht, which forms the country’s economic engine and is home to almost half of its population.
5 days ago · The Dutch language is a West Germanic language that is the national language of the Netherlands and, with French and German, one of the three official languages of Belgium. Dutch is also called Netherlandic or Dutch Nederlands; in Belgium it is called Flemish or Flemish Vlaams.
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- Dutch is the language of most of the Netherlands, of northern Belgium, and of a small part of France along the North Sea. Dutch is also used as the...
- The Dutch language derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea...
4 days ago · Haarlem actually holds this title. Nevertheless, Amsterdam is the largest and most populous city in the Netherlands. What is the difference between the Netherlands and Holland? Many people use the terms “Netherlands” and “Holland” interchangeably, but there is a slight difference between the two.
2 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 ...
2 days ago · Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, [14] [15] Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the " Venice of the North ", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [16] Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Amstel River, which was dammed to control flooding. [17]
