Travel and Tourism in the Netherlands

Tourism in the Netherlands

Located Netherlands (or "lowland") in Western Europe overlooking the North Sea. Kingdom of The Netherlands is the official name of the Netherlands. Netherlands the name comes from the country's only two out of 12 carrying this name. Arabic language is usually referred to the lowlands in the Netherlands. So called because nearly half of its territory lies below sea level, was also more than two-fifths of the country's land covered with water sea or lakes. Germany is bordered to the east and south of Belgium and the rest of the actors of the North Sea. Kingdom is one of the Benelux countries and the European Union. The Netherlands is home to painters of the Worlds, Van Gogh and Ramberat, it is also the home of flowers (tulips) and many varieties of cheese known worldwide It is interesting in view of the nature of the country's flat used Dutch bicycles dramatically where there are about 13 million bicycles in the Netherlands while the population is 16 million almost.

Official Languages: Dutch and Frisian

Capital: Amsterdam
Largest city: Amsterdam
Area: 41.526 sq km
Population: 16,135,992
Population density: 389 people / sq km
Currency: euro

General information about the nature


1 - The first thing that draws the attention of the city of Amsterdam is navigable
Using small boats from the bottom of the elevated bridges.


2 - Amsterdam has many parks and a beautiful landscape and rich in many
Museums where more than 700 museum ...
Which includes the immortal works of art for artists such as Rembrandt


3 - also includes several historic buildings mixed with the
Ancient art with modern art .. and there are building music scene
Which opened in 1968


4 - popular sports: in the Netherlands engaged in sports such as hockey are plentiful -
Athletics - swimming - cycling - sailing
, Handball and volleyball.