Geography Facts The Netherlands

The Netherlands has 20 national parks and hundreds of other nature reserves, that include lakes, heathland, woods, dunes and other habitats. Most of these are owned by Staatsbosbeheer, the national department for forestry and nature conservation and Natuurmonumenten (literally 'Natures monuments'...

The Dutch coast consists of sandy, multi-barred beaches and can be characterised as a wave-dominated coast. Approximately 290 km of the coast consists of dunes and 60 km is protected by structures such as dikes and dams. With the melting of the ice at the end of the last ice age the coastline ...

The land that is now Holland had never been stable. Over the millennia the geography of the region had been dynamic. The western coastline shifted up to thirty kilometres to the east and storm surges regularly broke through the row of coastal dunes. The Frisian Isles, originally joined to the ...

Holland is rich in water and is well- known for its expertise with regards to water management. Due to its location on the north-sea and all the inland waterways, water has also brought Holland a lot of prosperity. It is often said that water is flowing through the veins of the Dutch. General...

The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, administratively divided into 12 provinces (provincies). Even though the Netherlands is a small country, these provinces are quite diverse and have plenty of cultural and linguistic differences. They can be divided in four regions: * Wester...

Oosterscheldekering, part of the Delta Works The Dutch are famous for their struggle with the sea. As a former naval power, the Netherlands owed its 17th century Golden Age to the water, and still depends heavily on it for modern day trade and fisheries, as the massive, modern port of Rotterda...

Geography The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. No matter where you go, you are never far away from civilization. Cities can be crowded especially in the Randstad area, where congestion is a serious problem. Much of the country is flat and at or be...

The continental shelf of the Dutch coast is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain. Much of the shelf was exposed during glacial periods, but it is now submerged under relatively shallow seas (known as shelf seas) and gulfs and was similarly submerged during oth...

This is a table of municipalities of the Netherlands on January 1, 2012. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Municipality Province Population Aa en Hunze Drenthe 25,582 Aalburg ...

The Caribbean Netherlands (Dutch: Caribisch Nederland) refers to a group of three special municipalities of the Netherlands (officially public bodies) that are located in the Caribbean Sea: the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba,which are also known as the BES islands. Although they...

This is a list of islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. *  1 West Frisian Islands (in the Wadden Sea) *  2 In South Holland *  3 Island and former islands in Zeeland *  4 Islands in the IJsselmeer or former Zuiderzee *  5 Islands in the Caribbean, formerly kn...

Some Facts of The Netherlands The geography of the European part of Netherlands is in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes. Another factor that has influenced its physical appearance is that the country is among the most densely pop...

This is a list of the extreme points of the Netherlands, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.     1 European part of the Netherlands     2 Netherlands     3 Kingdom of the Netherlands    &n...

All of the Netherlands is drained into the North Sea, partly via the IJsselmeer lake. In the list below, rivers that flow into the sea are sorted following the North Sea coast (including IJsselmeer) from the Belgian border near Knokke to the German border near Emden. A large part of the Nethe...

The geography of the European part of Netherlands is in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes. Another factor that has influenced its physical appearance is that the country is among the most densely populated on Earth. It is ranked 1...