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 Europes natural gas.

ECONOMYThe 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.

GEOGRAPHYThe 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, Bechsteins bat, Brandts bat, Pond bat, Geoffroys bat, Greater Mouse Eared bat, Whiskered bat, Western Barbastelle bat, Matterers bat, Lesser Noctule bat, Noctule bat, Nathusiuss Pipstrelle bat, Common Pipstrelle bat, Northern bat, Brown Big Eared bat, Serotine bat, and the Gray Big Eared.

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

TRANSPORTATIONTransportation 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 Queens 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 CULTUREThe 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 PEOPLEFamous people in the Netherlands are saint Gerardus, Hooft, Cats, Huygens, Bredero, Rembrandt, Vemeer, and Joost Vonden Vondel.

MUSEUMSAnne Frank House, AmsterdamArmy museum, Delft Aviodrome (Airplane museum), Lelystad Boerhaave Museum, LeidenBonnefanten 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 MUSEUMSGroninger Museum, Groningen Het Domein, Sittard Historisch Museum Den Briel, BrielleKrller-Mller Museum, Otterlo Kunsthal, Rotterdam Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam Mauritshuis, The Hague Mohlmann Museum, Venhuizen Molen de Valk, LeidenMuseon, The HagueMuseonder, Hoge Veluwe National ParkMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden Naturalis, Leiden Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NEMO, AmsterdamNetherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch Northern Maritime Museum, Groningen Openluchtmuseum (historical buildings), Arnhem Polderhuis Westkapelle , WestkapellePrincessehof, Leeuwarden Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Scheepswerf 'De Delft', Rotterdam (Delfshaven) (Historical shipyard / museum)Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, LeidenStedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof, DelftTeylers Museum, HaarlemValkhof museum, NijmegenVan Abbemuseum, EindhovenVan Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

BIBLIOGRAPHYThe books I used were Netherlands and two books whose titles are The Netherlands. The websites I used were Mrs. Turschmanns blog, all about countries for kids, Yahoo kids about countries, every culture.com, and list of countries of the world,