We live here, so we get asked the same questions all the time. Is it really below sea level? Why is everyone so tall? Is Holland the same thing as the Netherlands? Below are 25 facts about the Netherlands, checked against official Dutch sources and updated in August 2026. Some you will have heard. A few of the ones you have heard turn out to be wrong, and we say so.
Short on time? Start here. Each one links to the full explanation below.
| Fact | Figure |
|---|---|
| Population | 18.14 million (CBS, Q1 2026) |
| Population density | About 547 people per km² |
| Land area | 41,543 km², roughly the size of Maryland or Denmark |
| Capital city | Amsterdam |
| Seat of government | The Hague |
| Provinces | 12, of which only two are called Holland |
| Highest point | Vaalserberg, 322.4 m |
| Lowest point | Zuidplaspolder, 6.76 m below sea level |
| Land below sea level | About 26% |
| Languages | Dutch nationwide, Frisian also official in Friesland |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1), CEST in summer (UTC+2) |
| Currency | Euro |
| Bicycles | About 23 million |
| Historic windmills | About 1,261 |
The population passed 18.14 million in the first quarter of 2026, according to CBS, the national statistics office. That works out at roughly 547 people per square kilometre. The UK, for comparison, sits at about 280.
More than 45% of everyone lives in the Randstad, the horseshoe of cities formed by Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht, on about a fifth of the land. You feel it as a visitor in two ways. Trains go everywhere and go often. And space costs money, which is why Dutch houses are so narrow and why the country keeps making new land rather than new suburbs.
Dutch men average about 1.84 m (6’0″), which has topped the global list for decades. Dutch women average around 1.70 m (5’7″). The usual explanations are a dairy heavy diet, good healthcare for everyone, and a few centuries of natural selection. All the cheese probably did not hurt.
Here is the bit most articles skip: the Dutch have stopped growing. Men born in 2001 measure on average 1 cm less than men born in 1980, and women 1.4 cm less. Still first. But the lead is shrinking, and researchers are not entirely sure why.
| Country | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1.84 m (6’0″) | 1.70 m (5’7″) |
| Montenegro | 1.83 m (6’0″) | 1.70 m (5’7″) |
| Denmark | 1.82 m (5’11”) | 1.69 m (5’6″) |
| Germany | 1.80 m (5’11”) | 1.66 m (5’5″) |
| United Kingdom | 1.78 m (5’10”) | 1.64 m (5’4″) |
| United States | 1.77 m (5’9″) | 1.63 m (5’4″) |
Practical note for tall visitors: Dutch doorways in 17th century canal houses were not built for this. Watch your head on the stairs.
The law came into effect on 1 April 2001, along with the right for same-sex couples to adopt. Job Cohen, then mayor of Amsterdam, married four couples at midnight to mark the moment. Amsterdam remains one of the most openly LGBT friendly cities in Europe, with the Homomonument on the Westermarkt and a Pride that takes place on the canals rather than the street.
One year later, on 1 April 2002, the Netherlands became the first country to legalise euthanasia under strict medical conditions. Two world firsts, same date, two years apart.
The Wilhelmus only became the official anthem in 1932, but the tune goes back to at least 1572, which makes it the oldest melody used by any country. The lyrics are probably just as old, though nobody is certain who wrote them.
It is also one of the strangest anthems ever written. There are 15 verses, and the first letters of each spell out Willem van Nassov. It is written in the first person, as though the prince is speaking, and in the sixth verse he asks God for help. In practice you will only ever hear verses one and six, usually before a football match.
Nederland translates as “the low lands”, which is not a metaphor. About 26% of the country sits below sea level, and roughly 55% of the land would flood without defences once you count the rivers. The highest point is the Vaalserberg at 322.4 m. The lowest is the Zuidplaspolder near Rotterdam, at 6.76 m below sea level, which is also the lowest point in the European Union.
The Vaalserberg has a bonus fact attached: it is the exact spot where the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany meet. You can stand in three countries at once and take a photo that nobody at home will find as impressive as you do.
| Place | Elevation | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Scenery, Saba | +887 m | Highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, though it is in the Caribbean |
| Vaalserberg, Limburg | +322.4 m | Highest point on the European mainland part, and a three country border |
| Schiphol Airport | -3.4 m | You land below sea level, on a drained lake |
| Zuidplaspolder | -6.76 m | Lowest point in the European Union |
What surprises people most is that none of this is natural. The low ground is man made. It was drained over 800 years using dikes, windmills and pumps. The country is not sinking into the sea. It was pumped out of it, and it stays dry because thousands of people go to work every day to keep it that way.
This is the most repeated Dutch fun fact on the internet, and it is the one most likely to be wrong. The story says 17th century Dutch farmers bred orange carrots to honour William of Orange. Lovely story. Geneticists and food historians have taken it apart. Orange carrots turn up in Spanish and North African records long before William came along, and the mutation itself is older still.
What Dutch growers actually did was commercial rather than patriotic. They refined a sweeter, more uniform orange variety that grew well in wet soil and sold better at markets across Europe, and that variety became the ancestor of almost every carrot you have ever eaten. The royal connection was attached afterwards, once orange had already become the national colour.
| The claim | What the evidence says |
|---|---|
| Carrots used to be purple and white | True. Purple, white and yellow dominated for centuries |
| Dutch farmers bred them orange for William of Orange | No evidence. Orange carrots predate him |
| The Dutch made orange the world standard carrot | True. Dutch horticulture commercialised and spread it |
| Orange is the Dutch national colour | True, from the House of Orange-Nassau. Nothing to do with vegetables |
King’s Day on 27 April is the biggest party in the country. It has not always been called that. The Netherlands had queens without a break from 1890, so the national holiday was Queen’s Day on 30 April. When Beatrix handed the throne to her son in April 2013, the name and the date both changed to match King Willem-Alexander’s birthday.
Two things worth knowing if you are planning a trip around it. When the 27th falls on a Sunday, the whole country celebrates on the 26th instead. And for one day the rules on street trading are suspended nationwide, so anyone can sell anything on the pavement without a permit or tax. That is the vrijmarkt, and it is genuinely the best day of the year to buy somebody else’s old junk. Get there early. The good stuff is gone by ten.
Tulips came from the mountains of Central Asia and reached Europe through the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. Then came Tulip Mania in the 1630s, when single rare bulbs traded for more than a canal house before the market crashed in February 1637. Economists still cite it as the first recorded speculative bubble.
The flower only became a national symbol much later. During the Hunger Winter of 1944 and 1945 people ate the bulbs to survive, which is a detail the postcards leave out. Today most visitors see them at the Keukenhof gardens, the largest flower garden in the world, or by cycling through the tulip fields around Amsterdam.
| Tulips by the numbers | Figure |
|---|---|
| Bulbs grown in the Netherlands each year | More than 4 billion |
| Bulbs exported abroad each year | Roughly 2 to 3 billion |
| Bulbs planted at Keukenhof each season | 7 million, all by hand |
| Tulip varieties at Keukenhof | About 800 |
| Keukenhof visitors per year | About 1.4 million in an eight week season |
| Best weeks for the fields | Mid to late April |
In the 2026 World Happiness Report the Netherlands came 7th, with an average life score of 7.22 out of 10. That is the lowest placing so far, and it made the newspapers here. Worth keeping in perspective though: the country has never once dropped out of the global top ten since the report started in 2012.
| World Happiness Report | Dutch position |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7th |
| 2025 | 5th |
| 2024 | 6th |
| 2023 | 5th |
| 2022 | 5th |
| 2013 | 4th |
One number from the 2026 report explains a lot about the Dutch character: 67% say they give to charity, one of the highest shares measured anywhere.
The number you usually see is 1,200 bridges. Count every numbered crossing the city maintains and it goes past 1,700. Venice has around 400, which settles that argument.
Our favourite is free. Stand on the Herengracht where it crosses the Reguliersgracht after dark and you can see 15 lit bridges lined up in a row. It is on our list of free and cheap things to do in Amsterdam for a reason. A canal cruise will take you under a fair number of the rest.
| Amsterdam’s water in numbers | Figure |
|---|---|
| Canals | 165 |
| Total canal length | Over 100 km |
| Bridges, commonly quoted | About 1,200 |
| Bridges, every numbered crossing | More than 1,700 |
| Houseboats | About 2,500 |
| UNESCO status | The Canal Belt was listed in 2010 |
Houten sits just south of Utrecht. Like most Dutch towns it runs on bicycles, but Houten went further than anywhere else. The whole town was planned around a bike and pedestrian network, with a ring road on the outside that cars have to use to get from one neighbourhood to another. Cycling straight across is faster than driving. That was the entire point.
Road casualty figures there sit well below the national average, and urban planners fly in from all over the world to walk around and take notes. It is not a tourist attraction and there is nothing to see, which is sort of the highest compliment you can pay a town.
Wooden shoes, or klompen, date back to the 13th century. You will not see anyone in a city wearing them, and the pairs in the souvenir shops on the Damrak have never been near a foot.
Outside the cities it is a different story. Farmers, gardeners and dock workers still wear them, because a wooden shoe counts as safety footwear in the Netherlands. It carries the same European safety certification as a steel toed boot, and if something heavy lands on your foot the wood splits before your toes do.
The Netherlands came first out of 123 countries in the 2025 EF English Proficiency Index with a score of 624. That is the seventh year in a row at the top. As an English speaking visitor you will not have a single problem: menus, museum labels, ticket machines and staff will all switch without you asking.
A lot of the credit goes to television. The Dutch subtitle foreign programmes rather than dubbing them, so children grow up hearing English every evening. If you want to try a few Dutch words anyway, people will be pleased and will then reply in English.
| Dutch | Say it like | Means |
|---|---|---|
| Hoi | hoy | Hi |
| Dank je wel | dahnk yuh vel | Thank you |
| Alsjeblieft | al-shuh-bleeft | Please, and also here you go |
| Lekker | lek-ker | Tasty, nice, good. Used for almost everything |
| Gezellig | ghe-zel-lich | Cosy and sociable. No real English equivalent |
| Doei | doo-ee | Bye |
Under the Dutch Climate Act the Netherlands must cut greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030 against 1990 levels, and reach net zero by 2050. Those numbers are law, not ambition.
Whether it will happen is a different question. PBL, the government’s own environmental assessment agency, currently projects 45 to 53% by 2030 on existing policy, and says the target is unlikely to be reached. It is a permanent argument in Dutch politics. What you notice as a visitor is solar panels on a remarkable number of roofs, wind farms visible from the beach, and enough public charging points that renting an electric car here actually works.
About 1,261 historic mills survive, down from roughly 9,000 in 1850. That is still the largest concentration anywhere. They were built to drain wetlands, grind grain, saw timber and press oil, and around 300 of them still turn. Some working mills in towns can no longer catch enough wind because buildings have grown up around them. Many are now open to visitors, like the Zaanse Schans, and others only open on National Mill Day, the second weekend of May.
| Where to see them | What you get | From Amsterdam |
|---|---|---|
| Zaanse Schans | Working mills you can walk inside, plus cheese and clog workshops | 20 min by train |
| Kinderdijk | 19 mills from 1740 standing in a line. UNESCO listed | 90 min |
| Molen de Otter | A 17th century sawmill still standing inside Amsterdam | In the city |
| De Gooyer | Tallest wooden mill in the country, with a brewery at the foot of it | In the city |
| Alkmaar | Mills plus the Friday cheese market | 40 min by train |
Frisian, or Frysk, is the only regional language with official status in the Netherlands, secured by the Use of the Frisian Language Act in 2014. Several Frisian languages are spoken along the North Sea coast. This one belongs to the province of Friesland, where about 400,000 people speak it actively and roughly half the province uses it at home.
Linguists generally consider it the closest living relative of English. There is an old Frisian shibboleth that proves the point out loud: “Bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wa’t dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjochte Fries.” Butter, bread and green cheese. Say it out loud and you will hear it.
About 23 million bicycles for 18.14 million residents, which is roughly 1.3 each and the highest rate in the world. The infrastructure backs it up: more than 35,000 km of dedicated cycle paths, and around 153,000 km of roads and paths where bikes are welcome. Utrecht built the largest bicycle parking garage on the planet under its central station, with room for 12,500 bikes.
If you want to join in, read our guide to cycling in Amsterdam first. The rule visitors break most often, and the one that annoys locals most: never stop in a bike lane to take a photo.
Holland is two of the twelve provinces. North Holland covers Amsterdam, Haarlem and Alkmaar. South Holland covers Rotterdam, The Hague and Leiden. Together they are about 15% of the land. Calling the whole country Holland is roughly like calling the United Kingdom England, and people from Limburg or Groningen will let you know.
The habit stuck because those two provinces ran most of the trade during the Golden Age, so that is the name foreign merchants heard. In 2020 the Dutch government dropped Holland from its international branding entirely and now uses the Netherlands everywhere, including on the football shirts.
| Province | Capital | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| North Holland | Haarlem | Amsterdam, tulip fields, the North Sea coast |
| South Holland | The Hague | Government and the royal seat, Rotterdam, Kinderdijk |
| Utrecht | Utrecht | Canals with wharf cellars, the Dom tower |
| Friesland | Leeuwarden | The Frisian language, the Wadden islands, ice skating |
| Groningen | Groningen | A student city with the youngest average age in the country |
| Drenthe | Assen | Hunebedden, prehistoric stone tombs older than Stonehenge |
| Overijssel | Zwolle | Giethoorn, the village with canals instead of roads |
| Gelderland | Arnhem | Biggest province, Hoge Veluwe national park, Kröller-Müller Museum |
| Flevoland | Lelystad | The youngest province, reclaimed from the sea |
| North Brabant | ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Carnival, Van Gogh’s birthplace, the Efteling theme park |
| Limburg | Maastricht | The only real hills, Maastricht, the Vaalserberg |
| Zeeland | Middelburg | The Delta Works, wide beaches, mussels |
The ground under Amsterdam is peat and clay, far too soft to build on. So the city rests on timber instead. Builders drove wooden piles 12 to 20 metres down through the mud until they hit a firm layer of sand, then built on top of those. Across the whole city that adds up to an estimated 11 million poles.
The Royal Palace on Dam Square sits on exactly 13,659 Norwegian spruce piles, driven from 1648 onwards. Dutch schoolchildren learn the number with a trick: take the days in a year, put a 1 in front and a 9 behind. People at the time called the building the eighth wonder of the world. It is still standing on those poles almost four centuries later.
This also explains the leaning houses you see along the canals. Where the timber has rotted or shifted, the façade goes with it. Some of the tilt is deliberate, since merchants built the fronts leaning forward so goods hoisted up on the beam would not smash the windows. The rest is just the mud doing its work.
In 1602 the Dutch East India Company did something nobody had done before. It invited ordinary citizens to buy a piece of the business. More than 1,100 people subscribed and raised close to 6.5 million guilders, and the trade in those shares became the first real stock exchange.
Tradeable shares, shareholder registers, limited liability and even early derivatives were all worked out in Amsterdam within a few decades. You can still stand where it happened. The Beurs van Berlage on the Damrak and the streets around Dam Square are the direct descendants of that first trading floor. The VOC’s own history is a good deal darker than the financial innovation, which the Dutch have spent the last twenty years arguing about openly.
There is a Dutch saying: God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands. Flevoland is the proof. The Flevopolder covers around 970 km² that was seabed until it was pumped dry between 1957 and 1968, and it holds the Guinness World Record for the largest artificial island anywhere. It became the twelfth province on 1 January 1986 and now has more than 400,000 residents in cities like Almere and Lelystad.
It is part of the Zuiderzee Works, which ran from 1919 to 1986 and closed off an entire inland sea with the 32 km Afsluitdijk, turning saltwater into the freshwater IJsselmeer. Along with the Delta Works down in Zeeland, it regularly appears on lists of the seven wonders of the modern world. If you drive across the Afsluitdijk you can stop in the middle and look at open water on one side and a lake on the other.
A country the size of Maryland exported €137.5 billion of agricultural goods in 2025, up 8.4% on the year before, according to Wageningen Economic Research and CBS. Only the United States exports more, and the US is about 237 times larger. Dairy and eggs, cocoa, and flowers and plants lead the list.
The method is extreme intensity. Greenhouses in the Westland run on climate control, LED lighting and recirculated water, and produce yields per square metre that are among the highest ever recorded. Fly into Schiphol at night and you can see the pink glow of the greenhouse belt from the plane. It is also the reason Dutch farming is politically explosive here, since all that output comes with a nitrogen problem the country has not solved.
Over 2 kg of drop per person per year, which is around eight times the American figure and the highest rate in the world. Dutch shops carry more than 300 varieties. At one end you get soft sweet drop. At the other end sits dubbelzout, double salted liquorice loaded with ammonium chloride, which to most visitors tastes like being slapped by the sea.
If you buy one thing in a Dutch supermarket, make it this. Start with the sweet kind. Be aware that any Dutch friend offering you a bag will hand you the worst one first and then watch your face very carefully.
The Netherlands has over 400 registered museums, and Amsterdam packs more of them into each square kilometre than any other city. CBS counted 23.7 museums within 5 km of Dam Square and 45.4 within 10 km. Alongside the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum there are museums for houseboats, handbags, cats, microbes, fluorescent art and the Dutch resistance.
Practical tip: if you plan on three or more, a Museumkaart or an I amsterdam City Card usually pays for itself. Our overview of top attractions in Amsterdam is a decent place to work out the order.
Coffee intake here runs at about 1.79 cups per person per day, roughly five times the global average of 0.36. The habit dates to the 17th century, when Amsterdam merchants made the city the centre of the European coffee trade and Dutch traders carried the plant to Java and Suriname.
One thing to prepare for before you visit a Dutch home. The coffee comes with exactly one biscuit, then the tin goes straight back in the cupboard. Nobody can explain it. It is simply how it is done.
If you ask ten people abroad, you get tulips, windmills and bicycles. Ask ten Dutch people and you get a very different list. Here is both.
| What visitors say | What the Dutch would add |
|---|---|
| Tulips and Keukenhof | Water management, and the fact that half the country would be underwater without it |
| Windmills | Rotterdam, the biggest port in Europe |
| Bicycles and canals | Football, and an argument about it that will not end |
| Amsterdam and its coffeeshops | Directness. Dutch people say what they think and assume you want to hear it |
| Gouda and Edam cheese | Stroopwafels, bitterballen, herring and a strong opinion on drop |
| Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh | Design, from Rietveld chairs to the road markings used across the world |
| Wooden shoes | Sinterklaas in December, which matters far more here than Christmas |
| Being tall and blonde | Agenda culture. You cannot drop in on a Dutch person unannounced |
The capital deserves its own short list.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| The name | From a dam on the river Amstel, built around 1270 |
| The narrowest house | Not Singel 7, despite the signs. That is a 1 m rear facade. The real winner is Oude Hoogstraat 22 at 2.02 m |
| Bikes in the canals | Waternet fishes out 12,000 to 15,000 a year, which is a Guinness World Record |
| Cats with a job | The Poezenboot is a floating cat shelter on the Singel, free to visit |
| Population | About 935,000 in the city itself, around 1.2 million across the wider urban area, from more than 180 nationalities |
| Below sea level | Schiphol sits at -3.4 m, so you land under the waterline |
| The XXX on the flag | Three St Andrew’s crosses, on the coat of arms since the 1500s. Nothing rude |
If you are helping with a school project, these are the ones that land best.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where is the Netherlands? | Northwest Europe, bordering Germany and Belgium, on the North Sea |
| What is the capital? | Amsterdam, though the government sits in The Hague |
| How many people live there? | About 18.1 million |
| What language do they speak? | Dutch, plus Frisian in the north |
| What is the flag? | Three horizontal stripes: red, white and blue |
| Who is the head of state? | King Willem-Alexander |
| What is the tallest thing? | The Gerbrandy radio tower at 366.8 m. The tallest hill is only 322.4 m |
| What do people eat? | Cheese, stroopwafels, poffertjes and raw herring |
| Why so many bikes? | The country is flat, the towns are close together, and the paths are separate from cars |
Answers at the bottom. No peeking. We have used this one at a pub quiz and question 7 caught everybody.
| # | Question |
|---|---|
| 1 | How many provinces does the Netherlands have? |
| 2 | What is the highest point in the European part of the country? |
| 3 | Which city holds the seat of government? |
| 4 | In which year did the Netherlands legalise same-sex marriage? |
| 5 | Which country did tulips originally come from? |
| 6 | How many wooden piles hold up the Royal Palace in Amsterdam? |
| 7 | What percentage of the country lies below sea level? |
| 8 | Which province is the youngest, and how old is it? |
| 9 | What is the second official language, and where is it spoken? |
| 10 | Which company launched the world’s first public share issue, and in what year? |
| 11 | On what date is King’s Day? |
| 12 | Roughly how many bicycles are there in the Netherlands? |
Answers: 1. Twelve. 2. The Vaalserberg, 322.4 m. 3. The Hague. 4. 2001. 5. Central Asia, reaching Europe via the Ottoman Empire. 6. 13,659. 7. About 26%. 8. Flevoland, a province since 1986. 9. Frisian, in Friesland. 10. The Dutch East India Company, 1602. 11. 27 April, moved to the 26th when it falls on a Sunday. 12. About 23 million.
Is Holland the same as the Netherlands?
No. Holland is two of the twelve provinces, North Holland and South Holland. The country is called the Netherlands, and since 2020 that is the only name the Dutch government uses internationally.
How much of the Netherlands is below sea level?
About 26% of the land. Roughly 55% would flood without defences once you include the major rivers. The lowest point is the Zuidplaspolder at 6.76 m below sea level, which is the lowest point in the European Union.
Why are Dutch people so tall?
The usual explanations are a dairy heavy diet, universal healthcare, and generations of natural selection. Men average about 1.84 m and women about 1.70 m. The average has stopped rising and has slightly fallen for people born after 1980.
What language do they speak in the Netherlands?
Dutch. Frisian is also official within the province of Friesland, where about 400,000 people speak it. English is spoken almost universally, and the country ranks first in the world for English proficiency among non-native speakers.
How big is the Netherlands?
41,543 km², which is about the size of Maryland or Denmark, with 18.14 million people living on it. You can drive from the northern tip to the southern border in around three hours.
How many windmills does the Netherlands have?
About 1,261 historic windmills survive, down from roughly 9,000 in 1850. Around 300 still work. The best places to see them are Zaanse Schans, Kinderdijk and Alkmaar.
Do I need to speak Dutch to visit?
No. You will manage completely in English anywhere in the country, and in cities you will find it hard to get anyone to speak Dutch to you at all.
What is the best time of year to visit?
Mid-April for the tulips and Keukenhof, 27 April for King’s Day, and June to August for long evenings and terrace weather. More detail in our guide to Amsterdam in spring.
What is the Netherlands famous for?
Abroad: tulips, windmills, bicycles, canals, cheese and Amsterdam. At home people would put water management, the port of Rotterdam, football and Dutch directness near the top of the same list.
What is the highest point in the Netherlands?
The Vaalserberg in Limburg at 322.4 m, which doubles as the point where the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany meet. Counting the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, Mount Scenery on Saba wins at 887 m.
Written and fact checked by the ThingstodoinAmsterdam.com team in Amsterdam. Last updated August 2026. Figures come from CBS (Statistics Netherlands), Wageningen Economic Research, the World Happiness Report 2026, the EF English Proficiency Index 2025, the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, PBL, Guinness World Records and the Dutch government.
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Sounds like a beautiful place to be
I wish to visit this country to witness some of these facts like happy people,tallest community in the world, a city where bicycles are taken as main means of transport and agriculture as a profitable venchure.
Want to know about technical particularly medical instrumentation universities and cost of living,job oppurtunities
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Excellent facts about Holland. Very interesting and informative.
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Ohh woow how interesting about Netherlands. Am already interested to visit the country...Any voluñtee🥰
The country's icon artist Vincent Van Gogh missing the list, visiting his House Museum to the village Zundert in 2020 inspire me to became Artist
Netherlands can proud of Art&Culture Van Gogh made Era out of it...
That's wonderful! We agree that there's a lot more to tell about the Netherlands, we might update this blog later with some more fun facts!
Good list, but the "green" energy is destroying our country.
very helpul for school project
12. Hardly anyone wears clogs in the Netherlands. I'm from the Netherlands and I've never seen anyone with clogs
That's correct and precisely the point of 12; contrary to some beliefs, in urban areas, the chances you'll find someone walking on clogs are slim. However, in rural areas and on farms they are occasionally still worn.