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White dish U.S.A. BICENTENNIAL TOWN OF ROTTERDAM, N.Y. 1776–1976, with black coat of arms and cityscapes. The town of Rotterdam, located in the U.S. state of New York, was founded in 1661 by Dutch settlers, who named it after the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where many immigrants last touched European grounds. [117]
Relief map of the European Netherlands. The European Netherlands has a total area of 41,543 km 2 (16,040 sq mi), including water bodies, and a land area of 33,481 km 2 (12,927 sq mi). The Caribbean Netherlands has a total area of 328 km 2 (127 sq mi) [115] It lies between latitudes 50° and 54° N, and longitudes 3° and 8° E.
Map of the major municipalities in the Netherlands. There are no formal rules in the Netherlands to distinguish cities from other settlements. Smaller settlements are usually called dorp, comparable with villages in English speaking countries. The Dutch word for city is stad (plural: steden).
The latter, which had been known as Bataafs Brabant (English: Batavian Brabant), changed its name to Noord-Brabant, North Brabant, in 1815 when it became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which also contained (then) South Brabant, a province now in Belgium. This new unified state featured the provinces in their modern form, as non ...
English: Editable Vector Map of the Rotterdam Netherlands in SVG format. Can be edited in the following programs: Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, InkScape Principal streets and roads, names places, residential streets and roads, road number labels, water objects, land use areas.
The first steps toward this development were taken with the construction of a new fast light-rail connection between Rotterdam and The Hague: RandstadRail. A long-delayed extension of the western A4 motorway from the south of Delft to Rotterdam has also been constructed, creating a second connection from Rotterdam, via The Hague, to Amsterdam.
In 2020, Rotterdam was the world's tenth-largest container port in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) handled. [5] In 2017, Rotterdam was also the world's tenth-largest cargo port in terms of annual cargo tonnage. [6] Covering 105 square kilometres (41 sq mi), the port of Rotterdam now stretches over a distance of 40 kilometres (25 mi).
Betuwe (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbeːtyu.ə] ⓘ), also known in English as Batavia (/ b ə ˈ t eɪ v i ə / bə-TAY-vee-ə), is a historical and geographical region in the Netherlands, forming large fertile islands in the river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine (Dutch: Rijn) and Meuse (Dutch: Maas) rivers.