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v. t. e. Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities [1] ( Dutch: gemeenten) and three special municipalities ( bijzondere gemeenten) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public ...
Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea ( Dutch: Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Indonesian: Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It contained what are now Indonesia 's six easternmost ...
Westland ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɛstlɑnt] ⓘ) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It covers an area of 90.74 km 2 (35.03 sq mi) of which 9.47 km 2 (3.66 sq mi) is covered by water and had a population of 111,382 in 2021. Towns and other settlements: De Lier, 's-Gravenzande, Monster, Naaldwijk ...
Habsburg Netherlands [1] was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire 's House of Habsburg. The rule began in 1482, when the last Valois-Burgundy ruler of the Netherlands, Mary, wife of Maximilian I of Austria, died. [2] Their grandson, Emperor Charles V, was born in the Habsburg Netherlands and made ...
Protestantism (13%) Islam (6%) Other (6%) St. Martin's Cathedral in Utrecht. Religion in the Netherlands was dominated by Christianity between the 10th and 20th centuries. In the late 19th century, roughly 60% of the population was Calvinist and 35% was Catholic. Since then, there has been a significant decline in both Catholic and Protestant ...
A yellow field with a blue hexagon filling with a white fleur-de-lis towards hoist and surrounding by four Ls. 29 March 2019 [8] Flag of Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland. A blue flag with a yellow lion rampant in the middle and two vertical stripes alternatively in red and white in the hoist side.
The Netherlands accepted the convention on 26 August 1992, making its natural and historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. There are 13 properties in the Kingdom of the Netherlands inscribed on the World Heritage List. Eleven of those sites are in the Netherlands and one is in Curaçao, in the Caribbean.
