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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 entity.
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.
This is a list of outlines of present-day nations, states, and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized.
Each entry below is an outline, an introduction to a subject structured as a hierarchical list of the essential points.Each of these outlines focuses on a country. Along with Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines, the outlines on Wikipedia form an all-encompassing outline of the knowledge of humankind.
Map depicts sovereign states and a de facto state (tw) fully located on islands: those with land borders shaded green, and those without shaded dark blue. Countries/territories not shown on the map: Antarctica (aq) (continental disputed territory), Australia (au) (continental country), the Cook Islands (ck) (free association with New Zealand), Greenland (gl) (constituent country of the Kingdom ...
Aruba is: an island, and a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. North America (just off the coast of South America, north of Venezuela) Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean. Antilles. Lesser Antilles (island chain) Leeward Antilles; Time zone: Eastern Caribbean Time High: Mount Jamanota 188 m ...
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 ]
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 ...