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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
NETHERLANDS
Photo by Bert Kaufmann
Land size:
16,033 sq. miles
Netherlands was one of the six founding members of the European Union.
Population:
16.8 million
People in the Netherlands are the tallest in the world. The average height for men is 184 cm and for women it is 170.
Official religion: Roman Catholic(31%), Dutch Reformed(13%), Calvinist(7%), Muslim (5.5%), other(2.5%), and none(41%).
Official language: Dutch.
Government: Constitutional monarchy
Independence: January 23,1579
Capital:
Amsterdam
Amsterdam was built on stilts,(entire city of was built on piles)the massive stakes that are driven into the ground. These piles laid the foundation for every building in the city. This means that if you stay at one of the many Amsterdam hotels, you are actually staying on stilts.
There are over 50 museums in Amsterdam and 1250 museums in all of Netherlands .
There are over 1 million bicycles in Amsterdam, and only 700,000 locals.
About 18 million bicycles in the whole country which makes it the bicycle capital of the world.
Photo by prosto photos
The Netherlands was the first country to legalise same sex marriages in 2001.
Rotterdam is the second largest port in the world.
It has more than 4,000 km of navigable canals, rivers and lakes.
Photo by Bert Kaufmann
The Netherlands is the world's main producer of sold tulips, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, mostly for export. Tulips did not originate from the Netherlands. The first tulip bulbs were imported from Turkey to the Netherlands. Tulip petals are actually able to be eaten. During the Dutch famine of 1944 in WWII, people often ate sugar beets and tulips.
Photo by MissTessmacher
Dutch wooden clog shoes are called klompen and are made of willow. They have been around for about 700 years.
Dutch windmills were traditionally used for corn/grain milling, saw milling and land drainage. Nowadays, they are used mainly as tourist attractions.
Once a year, there is “National Mills Day". Every 2nd Saturday in May, 600 windmill around the Netherlands let visitors come and see their windmills.
The Dutch were the first to import coffee to Europe on a large scale as early as the 1600s and 1700s.
The Dutch are one of the world's biggest coffee drinkers with an average of 140 litres of coffee a year(3.2 cups a day).
A person drinks on average 74 litres of beer a year.
Photo by jenny downing
