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  2. Netherlands - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Kingdom of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkrɛiɡ dɛr ˈneːdərlɑndə(n)] ⓘ; [h], West Frisian: Keninkryk fan Nederlân, Papiamento: Reino Hulandes), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, [i] is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state.

  4. Outline of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Common English country names: Netherlands, (imprecisely Holland) Official English country name: Netherlands. A constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which comprises the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Common endonym(s): Nederland. Pronunciation: [ˈneːdərlɑnt] ⓘ Official endonym(s): Nederland

  5. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of the Netherlands (official, English), Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (official, Dutch), Nederland (Dutch), Holland (pars pro toto, English, Dutch and other languages), Batavia (former and poetic, English, Dutch and other languages), Pays-Bas (French, used alongside "Netherlands" as names in the two official languages of the Int'l Olympic ...

  6. Holland - Wikipedia

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    The name Holland has frequently been used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. [3] This casual usage is commonly accepted in other countries, and is even employed by many Dutch themselves. [ 4 ]

  7. Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    The Low Countries as seen from NASA space satellite. The Low Countries (Dutch: de Lage Landen; French: les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the ...

  8. List of cities in the Netherlands by province - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. List of ISO 3166 country codes - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.