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The recently re-opened DeLaMar Theater houses more commercial plays and musicals. A new theatre has also moved into the Amsterdam scene in 2014, joining other established venues: Theater Amsterdam is located in the west part of Amsterdam, on the Danzigerkade. It is housed in a modern building with a panoramic view over the harbour.
The largest urban network is known as Randstad, including the largest four cities in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. Of these, 3 have historic city rights: Utrecht from 1122; Amsterdam from 1306; and Rotterdam from 1340.
Amsterdam is the country's most populous city and the nominal capital, though the primary national political institutions are located in the Hague. [ 24 ] The Netherlands has been a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a unitary structure since 1848.
The subregions (Dutch: streek or landstreek (plural: (land)streken), literally translating to a combination of 'land/country area/region') are non-administrative area in the Netherlands that can be demarcated on grounds of cohesion with regards to culture or landscape. This means that a landstreek is not bound by provincial or municipal ...
BASIC countries, four large newly industrialized countries, Brazil, South Africa, India, China, to act jointly on climate change and emissions reduction; Benelux Union is a politico-economic union of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Dam Square with a view of the City Hall of Amsterdam in the late 17th century. Painting by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden). The Hague has been the seat of government of the Netherlands since 1588. The Binnenhof houses the States General of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the Constitution refers to Amsterdam as the ...
The 17th century was a Golden Age, Amsterdam was the most important trading hub in Europe and the leading financial center of the western world. [4] Amsterdam is colloquially called the " Venice of the North " for its numerous canals . [ 5 ]
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 ...