Nederland

Netherlands
	constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe
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Instance of	country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (15 December 1954),; constituent state,; country
Part of	Benelux,; European Union
Location	Netherlands;
Capital	Amsterdam (de jure);
Basic form of government	parliamentary monarchy;
Legislative body	States General;
Executive body	Government of the Netherlands;
Highest judicial authority	Supreme Court of the Netherlands;
Official language	Dutch;
Anthem	Wilhelmus;
Currency	euro (European Netherlands, 1 January 1999);
Head of state	Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (Monarch of the Netherlands, 30 April 2013);
Head of government	Mark Rutte (14 October 2010);
Population	17,000,000 (21 March 2016);
Area	41,543 ±1 square kilometre;
Top-level Internet domain	.nl;
Said to be the same as	European Netherlands;
	official website
Authority control
	VIAF ID: 156652814; GND ID: 4042203-3; OSM relation ID: 47796
	52° 19′ 12″ N, 5° 33′ 00″ E OpenStreetMap; Google Earth; Proximityrama;
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The Netherlands is a country with 12 provinces in Europe and three special communities in the Caribbean Sea.

Symbols of the Netherlands[edit]

Main category: Symbols of the Netherlands

Selected maps are included in the Wikimedia Atlas of Netherlands.

Main category: People of the Netherlands

Count Floris V of Holland and Zeeland (1254-1296)
Desiderius Erasmus, humanist and theologian (1466/9-1536)
Hadrianus VI, served as Pope 1522-1523
William the Silent, stadholder and first leader of the Dutch revolt (1533-1584)
St. Petrus Canisius, Catholic apologetic (1521-1597)
Hugo Grotius, jurist, philosopher, playwright, and poet. (1583-1645)
Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (1606-1669)
Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of the Dutch Republic (1625-1672)
Michiel de Ruyter, admiral (1607-1676)
Jan van Riebeeck, founder of the Cape Colony (1619-1677)
Christiaan Huygens, mathematician, astronomer and physicist (1629-1695)
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek tradesman, scientist and father of microbiology (1632-1723)
Isabelle de Charrière, Writer of letters, novels, pamphlets and plays (1714-1805)
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, politician (1798-1872)
Multatuli (pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker), novellist (1820-1887)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painter (1836 - 1912)
Abraham Kuyper, Theologian and politician (1837 - 1920)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1853-1928)
Piet Mondriaan, painter and publicist (1872-1944)
Johan Huizinga, Historian and philosopher (1872 - 1945)
Misha Mengelberg, Composer and pianist (1935 - 2017)
Wim Duisenberg politician and banker (1935 - 2005)
Ard Schenk, World champion speed skating (1944-)
Herman van Veen, stage performer and singer/songwriter (1945-)
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1967-)
(Monarch of the Netherlands)