Netherlandsby Ian

FUN FACTS

• The capital of The Netherlands is Amsterdam. • The major cities in the Netherlands are Utrecht,

Rotterdam, Delft, and Amsterdam.• The population is 16,570,613 people. Their

language spoken is Dutch.• The government is the King and Queen and a

monarchy.• The Netherlands is famous for their tulips.• The Netherlands provides most of Europe’s

natural gas.

ECONOMY

The Netherlands currency is the Euro. Crops grown in The Netherlands are potato plants, beet plants, wheat, sugar plants, lettuce, tomato, grapes, cucumbers, and barley. Imports in the Netherlands are food, gas, and many other supplies. Exports in the Netherlands are food, metal, gas, oil, crops, and many many more things. The Netherlands is a wealthy country. Jobs available are farming, food processing, metal working, banker, law firms, and a government officer.

GEOGRAPHY

The climate in The Netherlands is snowy, rainy, windy, sunny, shady, cloudy, wet, mild, human, warm, breezy, and warm breezes. Land forms in the Netherlands are rivers, seas, plains, canals, mountains, hills, valleys, dunes, islands, oceans, and swamps. The Netherlands location is Northern Europe. The Netherlands is located in the continent Europe. Countries nearby the Netherlands are Germany, The United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and Luxemburg.

ANIMALSAnimals in the Netherlands rodents are Eurasian Harvest mouse, Field vok,

Root vole, Common Eurasian mouse, vole, European Pine vole, Common Door mouse, Yellow Necked field mouse, Long Tailed Field mouse, Eurasian beaver, and the Black Belled hamster. Dolphins, whales, and porpoises are the Grey dolphin, Bottle Nosed dolphin, Pygmy Sperm whale, Atlantic White Sided dolphin, White Beaked dolphin, North Atlantic Beaked dolphin, North Atlantic Right whale, Common Minke whale, Beluga whale, Common porpoises, Atlantic dolphin, Devil fish, and the Long Finned Pilot whale. Carnivores in the Netherlands are the Cross fox, Beech Marten, Common otter, badger, European Pine Marten, Ermine, European Polecat, European mink, Least weasel, Arctic wolf, and the Common seal. Even toed Ungulates in the Netherlands are the Roe deer, an Elk, and a wild boar. Bats in the Netherlands are the Particoloured bat, Bechstein’s bat, Brandt’s bat, Pond bat, Geoffroy’s bat, Greater Mouse Eared bat, Whiskered bat, Western Barbastelle bat, Matterer’s bat, Lesser Noctule bat, Noctule bat, Nathusius’s Pipstrelle bat, Common Pipstrelle bat, Northern bat, Brown Big Eared bat, Serotine bat, and the Gray Big Eared.

PLANTS

Plants in the Netherlands are tulips, daisies, and dandelions. Trees in the Netherlands are pine trees, oaks, ferns, and apple trees.

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation in the Netherlands is air planes, bicycle, busses, cars, and boats.

HISTORYThe sports the Netherlands play are foot ball, soccer, bicycle races, and

yatching events winter events are ice skating, and ice boating. Holidays in the Netherlands are Easter, Thanks giving, Ash Wednesday, Memorial day, and Christmas. Celebrations: The people in the Netherlands celebrate Easter, Thanks giving, Ash Wednesday, Christmas, Memorial day, and the celebration of the Queen’s birthday. The Netherlands Religions are Catholic, Wednesday, and protestant Memorial day. Traditions in the Netherlands are Festivals, Catholic, The common Catholic ecclesiastical authority is represented by Bishops.

FOOD AND DRINKFood and drinks in the Netherlands are traditional foods: pea soup, kale stew, hotch

potch (a thick stew), white asparagus, French fries with mayonnaise, meat croquets, and raw herring. In the morning the Dutch consume several sandwiches with cheese, peanut butter, or chocolate sprinkles. Lunch consists of sandwiches, often with cold cuts and perhaps a small salad on the side. Diner is generally served between 5 and 7 pm. It is a three course meal that often begins with soup. The main dish usually contains a mixture of potatoes with vegetables and meat, fish, or poultry. This is followed by dessert. Chinese noodles, and Italian food have become part of the Dutch diet.

ARTS AND CULTURE

The Netherlands art and culture: music is classical music, Jazz, popular and folk. At least one person in every family plays an instrument. Some people enjoy singing in choirs, as well.

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous people in the Netherlands are saint Gerardus, Hooft, Cats, Huygens, Bredero, Rembrandt, Vemeer, and Joost Vonden Vondel.

MUSEUMS• Anne Frank House, Amsterdam• Army museum, Delft • Aviodrome (Airplane museum), Lelystad • Boerhaave Museum, Leiden• Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht • Bijbels Museum, Amsterdam • Centraal Museum, Utrecht • Cobra Museum, Amstelveen • Drents Museum, Assen • Dutch Cavalry Museum (Cavaleriemuseum), Amersfoort • Dutch Railway Museum, Utrecht • Escher in het paleis, The Hague • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem • Fries Museum, Leeuwarden • Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

MORE MUSEUMS• Groninger Museum, Groningen • Het Domein, Sittard • Historisch Museum Den Briel, Brielle• Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo • Kunsthal, Rotterdam • Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam • Mauritshuis, The Hague • Mohlmann Museum, Venhuizen • Molen de Valk, Leiden• Museon, The Hague• Museonder, Hoge Veluwe National Park• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam • National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden • National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden • Naturalis, Leiden • Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, • NEMO, Amsterdam• Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam • Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch • Northern Maritime Museum, Groningen • Openluchtmuseum (historical buildings), Arnhem • Polderhuis Westkapelle , Westkapelle• Princessehof, Leeuwarden • Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam • Scheepswerf 'De Delft', Rotterdam (Delfshaven) (Historical shipyard / museum)• Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam • Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden• Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof, Delft• Teylers Museum, Haarlem• Valkhof museum, Nijmegen• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• The books I used were Netherlands and two books whose titles are The Netherlands.

• The websites I used were Mrs. Turschmann’s blog, all about countries for kids, Yahoo kids about countries, every culture.com, and list of countries of the world,