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Netherlands
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National anthem of the Netherlands
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- Head Of Government:
- Prime Minister: Mark Rutte
- Capital:
- Amsterdam
- Population:
- (2023 est.) 17,975,000
- Currency Exchange Rate:
- 1 USD equals 0.934 euro
- Seat Of Government:
- The Hague
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Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland). A parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch, the kingdom includes its former colonies in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten. The capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government The Hague. The country is indeed low-lying and remarkably flat, with large expanses of ...(100 of 24002 words)