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The Netherlands (in Dutch: Nederland ˈne: dərˌlɑnt) is a constituent country that forms the European part of the Lowland Kingdom (in Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) which formally consists of a European part of twelve provinces, located in northwestern Europe, and a Caribbean part consisting of three islands in Caribbean Sea, Latin America. The European part borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares its maritime borders with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. The system of government in the Netherlands is a parliamentary democracy, and its official capital is Amsterdam, while the king and government are based in The Hague. The port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe - and the size of the three ports that follow together - and was the largest port in the world between 1962 and 2004. The name Holland is often used to refer to the whole lowland kingdom.
About half of the area of the Netherlands is located below the sea level in an area inhabited by about 21% of the total population, while the other half of its territory is located less than one meter (3.28 feet) above sea level. It is this geographical feature that gave the country its name: Nederlanden (Lowlands). Most of the lowlands below sea level were human-induced as a result of unfair peat extraction processes (which are a charred plant) that lasted for several centuries and on a large scale, and by bulldozing even in flooded areas, which led to land subsidence below sea level. In the late sixteenth century AD, reclamation operations began for marine lands, and large areas of this land were preserved until now through drainage systems for dams, canals and pumping stations. Most of the land of the Netherlands consists of the mouths of three important European rivers, which together with its branches form the Rhine - Diamond - Schelde Delta. Most of the country is very flat, with the exception of a few individual hillsides in the far southeast, and a low-rise hill chain in the central parts.
The Netherlands was one of the first countries to introduce the system of elected parliaments, and it is a founding member of the European Union, the euro area, the Group of Ten, NATO, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Trade Organization, and the Triple Economic Union of Benelux. It hosts the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and five international courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the International Tribunal for Lebanon. The headquarters of the first four courts are located in The Hague, just as is the case with the headquarters of the European Union's Criminal Intelligence Agency, Europol and the European Judicial Cooperation Agency, Europe, which has led some to call the city "the legal capital of the world" .. The Netherlands is also part of the Schengen area.
The Netherlands has a mixed market economy, ranked 17th out of 177 countries in the Index of Economic Freedom. It is the second largest exporter of food and agricultural products in the world, after the United States. It is the tenth country in the world with the highest per capita income in the world (in 2011) and in May 2011 it was classified as the happiest country according to data published by the Organization for Development and Cooperation.
About half of the area of the Netherlands is located below the sea level in an area inhabited by about 21% of the total population, while the other half of its territory is located less than one meter (3.28 feet) above sea level. It is this geographical feature that gave the country its name: Nederlanden (Lowlands). Most of the lowlands below sea level were human-induced as a result of unfair peat extraction processes (which are a charred plant) that lasted for several centuries and on a large scale, and by bulldozing even in flooded areas, which led to land subsidence below sea level. In the late sixteenth century AD, reclamation operations began for marine lands, and large areas of this land were preserved until now through drainage systems for dams, canals and pumping stations. Most of the land of the Netherlands consists of the mouths of three important European rivers, which together with its branches form the Rhine - Diamond - Schelde Delta. Most of the country is very flat, with the exception of a few individual hillsides in the far southeast, and a low-rise hill chain in the central parts.
The Netherlands was one of the first countries to introduce the system of elected parliaments, and it is a founding member of the European Union, the euro area, the Group of Ten, NATO, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Trade Organization, and the Triple Economic Union of Benelux. It hosts the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and five international courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the International Tribunal for Lebanon. The headquarters of the first four courts are located in The Hague, just as is the case with the headquarters of the European Union's Criminal Intelligence Agency, Europol and the European Judicial Cooperation Agency, Europe, which has led some to call the city "the legal capital of the world" .. The Netherlands is also part of the Schengen area.
The Netherlands has a mixed market economy, ranked 17th out of 177 countries in the Index of Economic Freedom. It is the second largest exporter of food and agricultural products in the world, after the United States. It is the tenth country in the world with the highest per capita income in the world (in 2011) and in May 2011 it was classified as the happiest country according to data published by the Organization for Development and Cooperation.
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