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Netherlands

Kingdom of the Netherlands · Nederland
Europe · Western Europe

0Population

41.85Kkm² of land

$52.33KGDP / person

AmsterdamCapital

ISO codes: NL · NLD
Density: 414 /km²
Languages: Dutch
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Dial code: +31
Internet domain: .nl
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Has a coast
Map centre: 52.4220° N, 5.6110° E
Demonym: Dutch
UN region: Western Europe
Economy: Developed region: nonG7
Income group: High income: OECD
Total GDP: $907.05B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 2

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By the numbers

How Netherlands stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

67th

of 242 · 0.23% of world population

Land area

134th

of 242 · 0.03% of world land

GDP per person

23rd

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

30th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Netherlands

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

About a quarter of it lies below sea level, and it has more bicycles than people.

2

Population is about 17,332,850 people, the 67th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.23 per cent of everyone alive.

3

Covers 41,850 km², making it the 134th largest country here - about 4.5 times the size of Cyprus.

4

Population density is about 414 people per km².

5

The capital is Amsterdam, at 52.35° N, 4.91° E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,031,000.

6

Shares land borders with 2 countries: Belgium and Germany.

7

Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Amsterdam.

9

The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol €).

10

The official language is Dutch.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Europe/Amsterdam

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UTC+02:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 The Hague Zuid-Holland 52.0800° N, 4.2700° E 1.41M

2 ★ Amsterdam Noord-Holland 52.3519° N, 4.9147° E 1.03M

Land neighbours

2 countries share a border with Netherlands.