Netherlands

Introduction The Netherlands is located in Western Europe between the countries of Belgium and Germany. The nation is approximately twice the size of the state of New Jersey in land. The country also has many natural resources such as natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, salt, sand, and gravel which play a key role in the economy. Some of the main economic industries of the Netherlands include electronics, chemical, automobile, shipping, agriculture, horticulture, service industry, banking, and media (The World Fact book: Netherlands ) The Dutch Untied Providences were under Spanish rule until 1579 when they declared their independence (The World Fact book: Netherlands). In the 17th century, the Netherlands was one of world’s leading…

The Monarchy of the Netherlands The monarchy of the Netherlands is a very young monarchy. It’s a constitutional monarchy and has been since it’s independence. The Netherlands has been ruled by the House of Orange-Nassau since then. The kingdom has evolved well due to the success of the monarchy. The monarchy itself is very effective due to the governmental system it works off of. So far the country has been mostly a neutral country, by not getting involved in world affairs. However, that…

In the book The Geography of Bliss from Eric Weiner, through the first four chapters Weiner visits the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan and Qatar to discover the factors that makes these countries happy. People in both the Netherlands and Switzerland are provided healthcare and education, since both are socially-minded European countries. But one, the Netherlands, has a loose lifestyle, while Switzerland has strict social rules. In the other two countries, Bhutan and Qatar, one focuses too much…

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The Netherlands, located in northwestern Europe, is commonly addressed as “Holland” when talking about the provinces. The two provinces of Noord and Zuid together make up Holland. The geography of Holland (the Netherlands) in Europe is deemed unusual by many in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea, with almost 25% of its land at or below sea level, while remaining protected by dikes. The European part of the country can be split into two areas: the low and flat lands in the west…

This led to an amendment of the Opium Act that legislated the difference between soft and hard drugs (Sarkany). This distinction is very important for the Netherlands because it allows the government to focus on the hard drugs that are affecting it’s citizens and helping people with addictions to those drugs. There is one controversial practice in the Netherlands today and that is the coffee houses that have special permission to sell a limited amount of soft drugs, as long as they abide by the…

administration needs to support tourism by pulling in more guests from abroad. It likewise plans to scrap superfluous regulations for tourism organization. NBTC anticipates that inbound tourism will keep developing in the nearing years taking into account its reckonings. Part of the way because of the marginally weaker monetary conditions that will win in the nearing years, this increment will at first be accomplished with low development rates, however higher development is prone to happen…

best. The plan was offensive, trying to avoid future problems that would have been possible to happen. The plan was that most of the troops would go west and find a way around the French. They would try and go through Belgium and the Netherlands. The troops who were still remaining would be at the border and would get the French to battle with them. This was very complicated due to the fact that, if they went through Belgium, that would basically mean Britain was in the war as well. Belgium was…

At the young age of 17, Henrietta got married to a man named John who was 20 years her senior. This means the wedding took place in the month of November in the year 1952. Even though he was a number of years older, she did not care. They were truly in love because she lit up every time we would talk about him. He was from Indonesia, but was living in the Netherlands (due to the Dutch rule in Indonesia). He was twenty years older than her but that did not seem to bother her discourage her…

more time with each other and communicating with each other. Typically, in Europe there is only the main course. They do not have a salad course it comes along with the main course. The culture was just so different from America it took time for Michaela and her family some time to get use to everything. With Belgium being so close to other countries Michaela was able to visit many other countries while living there. She had the opportunity to visit France, The Netherlands, Austria, Spain, and…