Netherlands

Commonly known as Holland, the NETHERLANDS (Dutch: Nederland), a Benelux Country (Low Country), is located in Western Europe. It borders the North Sea and the countries Belgium (located south) and Germany (east). The Netherlands is particularly famous worldwide for its windmills, levees and dikes, tulips, dairy products, and those wooden shoes, of course! According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the Netherlands’ population in the year 2020 is about 17,427,000 and is ranked 69th among populations of the whole world’s countries, dependencies, and territories. The main capital of The Netherlands is Amsterdam, although The Hague (also named Den Haag or 's-Gravenhage) is where the monarchial, supreme court, and parliament systems are located. Other most-populated cities include Almere, Breda, Eindhoven, Groningen, Heerlen, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. Since 2002, the Euro is Netherlands' currency. Dutch people formerly used the Dutch Guilder as their currency, and the Guilder's ISO 4217 currency code was NLG.