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The countries that comprise the region called the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) all have comparatively the same toponymy.Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nedre, Nether, Lage(r) or Low(er) (in Germanic languages) and Bas or Inferior (in Romance languages) are in use in low-lying places all over Europe.
The province of Holland gave its name to a number of colonial settlements and regions that were called Nieuw Holland or New Holland. The largest was the island continent presently known as Australia : [ 3 ] New Holland was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Dirk Hartog as a Latin Nova Hollandia , and remained in ...
Its European mainland is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east. The European Netherlands constitutes the vast majority (by land area and population) of both the country and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as such 'the Netherlands' in common parlance often implicitly refers to this ...
A map showing the area claimed by the Dutch in North America and several Dutch settlements compared to present-day boundaries. Like the French in the north, the Dutch focused their interest on the fur trade. To that end, they cultivated contingent relations with the Five Nations of the Iroquois to procure greater access to key central regions ...
Following are links to lists of islands of the Americas which relates to all islands associated with South America and North America, including those of the Caribbean. North America [ edit ]
Country of Aruba ABW Dutch: Aruba: Oranjestad: 106,537 193 km 2 (75 sq mi) Aruban florin Netherlands: Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Bonaire [n 5] BES Dutch: Bonaire Papiamento: Boneiru: Kralendijk: 20,104 179 km 2 (69 sq mi) United States dollar: Special municipality of the Netherlands: Clipperton Island CPT French ...
Lake islands of North America: Atlin Lake, Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m; Lake Huron. Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island; Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island; Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island; Thirty Thousand Islands; Lake Superior
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.