The Netherlands - The Low Country RECLAIMED (from the SEA)
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Everybody has heard of the Netherlands, but there are a lot of interesting things you might not know about it. The country's name comes from the Dutch word meaning "low country", a reference to the Netherlands' low elevation. 25% of the country is actually below sea level! And only 50% of the country is at an elevation of 1 meter or higher. Much of the country's land is reclaimed land, meaning that they created land where there used to be water. This ongoing process is accomplished using a system of dams, and traditionally, windmills to pump out the water. To illustrate the extent of this land reclamation, note that almost the entire province of Flevoland was reclaimed from the Zuiderzee.
Another thing that many people don't know about the Netherlands is that it's actually a kingdom containing four constituent countries: Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. The latter three are all located in the Caribbean.
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The Netherlands also have a border with France at the island of Sint-Maarten
True! Thanks for adding that.
And France is located in the north side, which is not true in Europe.
Also, the Saint Martin does not use the euro, though it's used in the French side or the island.
And Suriname 🇸🇷
@@EARART Suriname is an independent country
@@EARART suriname became independent but we still have good relationship with their people
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Hi Paul
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great video!👌
Spent the first 40 years of my life in Belgium, only 20 minutes drive from Zeeland where we each week went shopping. Loved the small towns of Hulst which was closest, Axel, where older people still wore their traditional clothing to church, and Sluis, with their traditional houses and lovely streets with little or no traffic. Very good memories.
Netherlands is the besy
Nice video. Some little points: Zeeland is not all reclaimed land, just a little. And not reclaimed from the Zuiderzee, but from the North Sea.
In the Netherlands we don't often get temperatures below zero and snow in the winter. That is mostly only some days/year. At the most a few weeks.
In Dutch the combination IJ is in someway an official letter, so IJsselmeer is written with two capitals.
Bye!
wtf ik wist totaal niet dat IJ samen met hoofdletters geschreven moest worden, thanks school
we used to get quite some snow but its become rare for a good 10 years now
Anders klinkt het gek en ziet er ook gek uit ik bedoel Ijsselmeer lijkt Op LJSSEL
That temperature is because we have a Sea climate.
in enschede (waar ik woon) vriest het heel vaak in de winter, maar ik weet niet waar jij woont dus ja
Paul, as a Canadian, you may know that the Netherlands offer thousands of tulips every Spring to the city of Ottawa. I let you find why.
(one clue: Margriet) ;)
Yeah, we love Canada 🌷🌷🌷
We should send them Margriets as well, they bloom after the tulips and bring summer!
In Spanish we call the Netherlands 'los países bajos' but refer to its people and language as 'Holandés'
We call you dickheads... Because Iniesta scored against us in an offside position... #HopeYouUnderstandThatThisIsAJoke:)
Only Iniesta is our enemy...
many latin language incorrectly do. But in the Netherlands we to refer ourselves as Nederlands, living in Nederland, speaking Nederlands. Holland only refer to the 2 Dutch provinces North and South Holland, but it is understandable since these two provinces are economically the main provinces. Some people who aren't from the Holand provinces might actually get offended if you refer to them as Hollanders, not many people though
@@Thuras yeah i know i learned that the hard way haha
Happy to see the GEOfocus Channel revitalised!
I just love all the dutch desserts.
I live in the Netherlands and they are all sooooo good.
And a fun fact new Zealand is named after old Zealand or the provincie zeeland
Dutch seafarer and discoverer, Abel Tasman, named New Zealand the way it is after mapping a bit of the West Coast and making land fall in 1643.
7:29 I got so happy when I saw the name ”Efteling”, it’s one of my favorite theme parks here and I have never seen it on a map that was zoomed out so far
Nice informative vid, I just somehow hoped to a mention of the Efteling theme park, as everyone tends to link/compare it to Disney but in a forest environment (the theme park may only use 11% of it's land or it looses it's nature park status which causes trouble with zoning, permits etc.)
Reviewers from abroad often call it whimsical, but the park is 70yrs old now and tries to both renovate and innovate, meaning much of the original park still is there, but you'll also see the newest (and sometimes buggy) technology
However, anything build is trying to stick to the original designers (Anton Pieck) philosophy: High quality and nostalgia, often by using techniques to make new look centuries old
Fun fact: Aton Pieck loved to take a hammer and beat up a chimney so it was crooked and looked like it was about to collapse, he also liked to get the builders drunk so they wouldn't be able to build straight walls (do note: Due to laws and safety rules no longer allowed but using shadowing etc.the illusion is maintained)
I basically grew up in the Efteling, but never knew about the drunk workers. Guess I was too little ;)
As far as I understand, the reason that Frisian from the province of Friesland can also be called West-Frisian is due to the fact that there is also an Eastern variety of Frisian that is still being spoken in particular parts of Germany along the coast. Hearing someone say that the Frisian language from Friesland can also be called West Frisian due to it being a language variant sounds really off to me though because I am from a particular region in the Netherlands called West-Friesland which actually wholly lies in the province of North-Holland. What we call West-Fries which actually directly translates to West-Frisian is a rich Dutch dialect. Hence my confusion. As far as I know the West-Fries dialect shares a lot of ancestral similarities compared to the Frisian language but has become a different thing altogether because the Dutch dialect developed separately from the Frisian province. Before reading up about it or seeing videos like this one I never heard that Frisian from Friesland could also be referred to as West-Frisian. All of this is brilliantly confusing to me.
@Remco Vdf Lindeboom From roughly 500 untill 1523. Could argue that it is from 400 bc instead.
I'm from Limburg and currently live in North-Brabant and never knew about the West-Friesland region. I did know about East Frisia being a country on the German coast. Somewhat similar there are provinces in Belgium called Brabant (seperated from Dutch Brabant by the provence of Antwerpen) and Limburg.
Something that I, as a Dutchie, believe should be known more is the story of Eise Eisinga. He made the oldest still existing planetarium in the world in his living room with parts of clocks.
also antoni van leeuwenhoek who invented the first microscope
@@z.kramer6027 debatable, he was the father of microbiology but theres a few others that may have had a part in the initial invention
@@ETools. yeah the lens was already invented and perfected by other dutchmen and by galilei, but van leeuwenhoek was the first one to realize that different shaped lenses could dramatically increase enlargement and he was the first scientist to make a device that could observe microorganisms. i count that as the first microscope but i get your point.
@@z.kramer6027 ah yes, that was it. Zacharias Janssen was one of them I believe.
@@ETools. yeah and his father Hans
Even if I already know a great part of the info shown, this series on countries have been quite enjoyable to watch. Good job. 👍
Fun fact about the Netherlands! During summer times, we officially do not have nights. This year, that period spans from May 19th to July 25th. The sun will set only marginally below the horizon, not enough to count for actual Night time. During these weeks...Sunlight can be seen all night long, just lingering at the northern horizon. It's not much, but it is still there.
what? we still have nights just shorter. we never have a time in the year that we dont have nights. 21 of june is the shortest night. but we still have it.
Hi Paul, I love you videos. I learn so much. I live near Holland and Zeeland in Michigan. I learned we pronounce Zeeland wrong. When I was a kid there were several roadside (US 31) Dutch museums and a Dutch Village. Those are gone, but Tulip time remains (and a delftware factory). Thank you for all the wonderful videos on both of your channels.
I would like to visit Michigan some time, due to the strong Dutch heritage that can be found there.
I love love love the Netherlands! Lovely people, beautiful country. Would live there if I was allowed
Me too, I'm from London but would swap if I could
@@EARART let’s swap ..would love to live in London …I live in Leiden ..you can visit the tulips fields by bike ..only 30 mins
@@EARART you can
@@EARART im from netherlands and a white kid said the n word to me and btw it ALWAYS RAINS AND WHEN YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE IT SHAKES SO HARD BC OF THE NOT STRAIGHT ROADS IVE BROKEN 3 BIKES BC THIS AND NO WE ALL PRETTY POOR MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN POVERTY BC EVERYTHING COSTS SO MUCH!!!!!!
@@sulfarussulfarus3378 bro it rains to much
i live in a small town that used to be located on the Zuiderzee(now Eemmeer) and its culture has declined yes but people still wear traditional clothing and the fish industry is still thriving it has just shifted, instead of fishing ourselfes fish gets brought here and gets produced into food and we also have 3 local bakery which have a small competition on their own. ooh and we are known for the only derby here in the Netherlands(inside one city/town, not like the frisian derby which is a competition inside a province).
I find fascinating the fact that Netherlands had 17% of its land reclaimed but I expected you would speak more about windmills. A great job like ever thank you
a lot of reclaimation was done with Flevoland tho and that was done mechanically without windmills just as a big part of the port of Rotterdam. on older reclaimation windmills were used
A few of the old windmills used in polders in North and South Holland are still operating, tho usually more as a museum/historical site. Kinderdijk is known for it's many windmills, so that might be interesting to look up.
It's 17%, not 70% 😉
interresting video. Visitors to the Netherland can avoid Amsterdam and have a great time. The city of Leiden where I was born has 10 interesting museums and is the birthplace of Rembrandt. Also the delta works are very interesting.
The city whith one of the biggest history of the country Leiden, it has the biggest univerity (located in Leiden and The Hague), Willem van Oranje giveted this to the city, Rembrandt was born here, and we have a special holiday on 3 october, the day that we where free from the spain, on that day we eat Hutspot (a mix of union, potato and carrot), Haring and Witte Brood (White Bread).
I was born there and I can advise everyone to visit Leiden but the university is only in Leiden.
Leiden is fine but a 'nieuwbouwwijk' compared to Utrecht, Nijmegen and Maastricht. Those cities were all founded by the Romans and have a much more impressive history. The only Dutch pope for example had his palace in Utrecht. Nijmegen was a place Charles the Great ruled from. And Maastricht was once the home of the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the Netherlands.
The Nehalennia temple altars were found near the Roman settlements of present Colijnsplaat and Domburg (not in the Westerschelde), she was a Celtic godess, worshipped by sailors and merchants.
Great video thank you so much 👍😁
Some one from the Netherlands here: weather kinda shit, and we don't get high all the time lol
Soon we'll have palm trees in Scheveningen and coral in the Oosterschelde.
When the Sahara takes over Spain and Italy.
Fun fact, Gouda cheese doesn't come from the city of Gouda. It derived it's name from that city because that's where most of it was traded. In fact, the name and shape aren't protected, so if you buy it in a different country it could've been made locally or on the other side of the world. Though Gouda Holland is legally protected (by European law) since late 2010 and should be both manufactured in the Netherlands and use Dutch cow milk. If you go to Gouda or the region and find cheese called "Stolwijker" this is locally produced cheese as Gouda once was.
Edit: I just noticed I didn't correct you on the Ij/IJ thing like 78% of the comment. Please forgive me :P
5:36 this wasn't drained with windmills. instead it was done with more modern pumps while it wasn't reclaimed before the 1930's... only the very old polders were drained by windmills
@Remco Vdf Lindeboom that's not true
@Remco Vdf Lindeboom That is only true for the Marker Wadden, small islands that were created a few years ago. The rest of Flevoland was created in the normal way: build a dike around it, then pump out the water.
I lived in the Netherlands for a university exchange term and was surprised by the public transit system (including regional trains, and local metro and bus systems). I think it's the most comprehensive and efficient system anywhere in the world. I'm sure part of its success is due to the high population density - contrast here in Canada, one of the least dense countries in the world, where many public transit endeavours would cost too much compared to the number of people they would actually benefit. People talk about the Dutch and their bikes (and it's true, the cycling infrastructure is beautiful too!) but I still won't shut up about the public transit over 5 years since leaving.
Yeah, the Netherlands is a very compact and densely populated country compared to Canada, which makes it much more viable to have public transit going to most places.
Canada could do much better even in the big metro areas though. North America seems to have been developed with cars in mind.
Paul: "East of Cuba"
Puerto Rico: "Am I a joke to you?"
The "ij" is seen as one letter in Dutch, and is usually capitalized as 'IJ", not "Ij". "IJsselmeer", not "Ijsselmeer".
Ijseljmeer I see in the picture -- but it is Ijselmeer (without the second j) - 'meer' means 'lake' and ijsel is a split from the river the Rhine.
Tbh idk what to let you know about my country so just a random history thing: in ww2 a dutch navy ship was ordered to retreat to Australia from the east indies when the Japanese attacked so to get away they disguised the ship as an island and slowly got away without being detected
Hello.
In My language in Slovak We called Netherlands "Holandsko", as Holland. But In Czech language name of country is "Nizozemsko", which is translation of Netherlands.
Also I have heard, that Old Dutch is also language of Franks, althought in Francia (Frankish empire) was used Latin, as official language.
I don't know, if It is true, this with Old Frankish, that It is also known, as old Dutch.
True, other than that the Franks spoke Old Dutch. Language and territory is always a bit messy and it's hard to say when the language of the Franks ends and Old Dutch begins. Dutch is absolutely a franconian language, but so is the confusingly named Franconian language spoken in Middle Germany. That's where we get Frankfurt from. It's kind of a band that goes from The Netherlands all the way to the Czech border
The history of the Dutch language is complex, but the Salian Frankish language was indeed the most important influence. Other influences were Frisian and Danish (some important islands in the delta were occupied by Vikings in the 9th and 10th century for a few generations) Holland as a county came into existence around the year 1000 (see f.i. battle of Vlaardingen in 1018).
07:55 i love to walk into that place i enjoy that really much
The Netherlands is - are? - an intriguing country, which has given the world a lot. One should never call the country "Holland," because the country has stated that this is an incorrect term. As a patriotic American who knows his history, l know only too well that America's much-vaunted religious and political freedom stems directly from the Dutch de facto colony of Nieuw Nederland ("New Netherlands"), situated from 1625 to 1664 in today's southern New York, eastern New Jersey and western Connecticut. By the way, New York City's "forgotten borough," Staten lsland, takes its name from the "staaten," the states of the Netherlands.
Very nice,thanks,janny,the netherlands.
Can't wait to visit there in January 2024!
Zeeland was not mostly reclaimed from the Zuiderzee but from the Noordzee and surroundings. And a lot was lost to the sea as well. Compare: verdronken land van Saeftinge in the Westerschelde or the area where the temple of Nehalennia was located.
The Nehalennia temple altars weer found near the Roman settlements of (present) Domburg and Colijnsplaat (not in the Westerschelde). She was a Celtic godess worshipped by sailors and merchants.
Rijkswaterstaat and the work they achieve.
Waterlevels
Of the rivers, canals and waterloopbos.
You tried to pronounce everything in a Dutch way (which you do very well).
Now only "Gouda" is pronounced completely different. I can try to explain it but you can better search it online.
Great video btw!
I just said it the English way, because that’s how I learned it as a kid. For most of the other words, I learned them more recently so I have no native English pronunciation for them. In those cases I tried to say them the Dutch way.
@@GEOfocusChannel Fair enough, loved the video btw. Just a little advice if you would have tried to pronounce it the Dutch way! 😁
I live in a old fishing town. Named Elburg. The town itself can be very beautiful.
Thank you. You're great.
Another fine video from Paul.
The Kingdom of Netherlands is wonderful but my beautiful island of Curaçao is the jewel in its crown. Then again, I'm biased.
Curaçao not only has a different, nicer climate but it also has quite a separate culture. We speak Papiamento and most people are black.
It's a hobby of mine to make videos documenting areas and aspects of my island.
You can find these videos on my UA-cam channel.
Not "black " but of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Dont limit its people with these meaningless color constructs.
10:42 Makes me hungry from only looking at it. XD
You forgot my personal favourite Dutch food item: Hagelslag.
Fun fact:Netherlands is so overcrowded and urbanized that the only Real wilderness left are in some parts of the wadden islands and the wadden sea,all of the rest is either man-made or heavily modified
Paul, I miss your video subtitles, it's always been a source of knowledge to me. Do you need any help with that? UA-cam has a tool which allows your viewers to contribute with subtitles... Isn't that a great idea?
UA-cam stopped allowing that. Too many people uploaded junk subtitles, like straight from Google Translate, or they added bad words or spam.
For example, UA-cam blocked one of my videos because somebody added a racist comment to to the subtitles.
Gran vídeo. Felicidades 👍
About the language.
As a tourist, you will get by with English just fine.
If you wish to live here, don't be like many other immigrants, living here for years, not learning Dutch and then complain how hard it is to befriend Dutch people.
When I speak to a foreigner other then German or Belgian, I speak English.
At home I speak Dutch.
At work I speak Dutch.
When shopping, I speak Dutch.
Going out to a restaurant, I speak Dutch.
When you are at work in the Netherlands, surrounded by 100 Dutch people, don't expect them to speak English among themselves just because there is 1 guy/girl that can't understand that language. They will speak Dutch and you will feel left out.
ps. It will still be hard to befriend people.
A friend to me, is someone who visits me at my place and whom I visit at theirs.
This includes getting a phone call at 0330 in the night, that your friend needs your help immediately, your answer has to be 'I'll be there in 5'. That is a friend, that you can rely on, no matter the time or day.
A contact on the internet is an internet contact.
A contact at work is someone from work.
Someone I know from the sporting club is someone at the club.
Those are not friends.
I don't let anyone in, on my personal life.
I have 1 friend, since 1981.
He knows me at a very personal level.
A new 'friend' that wants to get at that same level ? ...... Not a chance.
Hey Paul! Lovely video, but a few tiny factual errors. I could go through them with you if you like, let me know!
Thank you im dutch
Eindhoven with its high-tech hub (ASML, Philips ) is noteworthy.
The video I was waiting for
7:34 Zeeland is not reclaimed from the Zuiderzee but the North Sea instead
When you were talking about food, I expected you to say something about stamppot.
Why not about asperges with ham and hollandaise sauce?
Yummy and fresh from the fields right now!
For someone who also runs a language channel I was a bit disappointed you didn’t capitalize IJsselmeer correctly. A very forgivable mistake if you hadn’t already made a video on the dutch language in which the ij was specifically mentioned ;)
People have very unrealistic expectations of me based on Langfocus, even though it is not at all about me or my skill. Every video is a constructed project and I have always been open about that. Mentioning something about a language I don’t speak in a video I made 6 years ago doesn’t mean I remember it now.
@@GEOfocusChannel sorry, I meant it in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way but in retrospect I didn’t make this clear at all and I just sounded mean
Above comments are a great example of Dutch directness and the non Dutch receiver somewhat offended about it.
We go with the fiets (bike) to school (fun fact we write school the same) not with bus
het gaat over Nederland en half Nederlands kijkt
Am Netherlands
Well I’m Dutch so ik kan speak Dutch and live and born in the Netherlands
Greeting from Indonesia 😐😐😐
Suriname 🇸🇷 is also dutch owed and spoken
Suriname has been an independent country for almost half a century now.
I’m from the nethetlands
Netherlands
You told nothing about the 5 islands above the Netherlands. Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland en Schiermonnikoog
How can I go to live there in a small village for rest of my life in peace?🥺🥺🥺🥺
My contry
Great video guys. This is why I respect the Dutch so much for their ingenuity. While other Western powers-built cars, railways, planes, electrical products etc, the Dutch literally built lands and utilized the lands to become a highly productive country. Can you guys here suggest some books regarding this issue? I'm planning to do research for my upcoming UA-cam channel in my own country's language regarding how the Dutch solved land problems. Thanks in advance.
I am Dutch
I went twice to Maastrich to smoke weed all day.
Good times.
NEDERLANNDDDDD WK 2022 PAKKEN WE.
Please make Syria 🇸🇾, because Syria have a long history
@0:05 ye but an interesting and much lesser known fact is that it also has about as much pigs as people
And until last month twenty times more chickens...
It is not so brilliant as it look like. In the Early Middle Ages the Netherlands (Low Land) were couvert with a thick layer of bog, more or less 5 meters above sea level. Sometimes a storm took a part of these bog fields, like the later Zuiderzee (South Sea), now diked and called IJsselmeer. Big rivers like the Maas and Rhine and smaller ones cut though the bog plates on diverse places, sometimes changing their coarse. Along the banks of those rivers a system of naturally formed dikes existed. In the Later Middle Ages people start pumping with mills the water out of the central parts between the bog dikes, called them polders. Most of the dikes are still strengthened bog dikes. Along the bigger rivers people put sand and stones on the dikes nature has given the land. Breaking of dikes was common happening, often with loss of lives.
As you pump water out of bog it shrinks, sets at a lower level. So instead of five meter above, the polders are now all below sea level. Only on places where the underground was sand, like the dune coast and places where during Ice Ages sand was disposed are above sea level. Polders are two to ten meters below sea level in most places. Water is pump out but returns via the underground so there is still more water to pump out. For the use of modern big machineries also more water has to be pump out. Instead of rescuing the country from the sea the country is sunken so far that with rising sea levels it will disappear within some centuries completely. Nice country.
Ik verbaas mij erover dat dit veel mensen niet lijkt te deren en dat sommmige expats uit gebieden die hoog en droog liggen ervoor kiezen om in poldervastgoed te investeren.
Zelf vind ik het mooi meegenomen dat mijn huidige adres op de duinrand ligt.
Im from the netherlands
Gouda an Edam cheese designations were swapped.
Yep, Edam is red, Gouda yellowish...
Frisian is the official (2nd) language of the province of Fryslan. West Frisian, as mentioned in the video, is a dialect spoken in the northern part of the province of North Holland. West Frisian is not related to Frisian. (or at least not more so than standard Dutch).
What you just call Fryslan is referred to as “West Frisian” in English (at least when distinguishing it from its other dialects).
Linguists might refer to it as “Westerlauwers”.
What you call West Frisian (West-Fries) doesn’t have a single name in English. We would call it the “West Frisian dialect of Dutch”.
It’s just a (confusing) difference between Dutch and English terminology.
@@GEOfocusChannel thanks for the explainer
Netherlands can speak englesh to
I am of Nederland 😅😳
(yes dis is true)
I am from the Netherlands and what I would like to know others know about the Dutch is that we are the most handsome people in the world... Even better looking than French or Italians...!
Lol
and that is just a cap and a half. i am dutch my self.
It has tallest people but I’m the shortest out of the class :(
Zeeland isn't made up of land reclaimed from the Zuiderzee....
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
@7:33 wut.... no ...not at all
Gotcha lol so you're Danish (part) huh? Also if you can try checking out Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo, Japan 🤣😂😆
Huis Ten Bosch is more like Disneyland than the Netherlands. lol
@@GEOfocusChannel ah man 😔
Curqcao is in league a of the comcacaf nayions league
Boarders of the netherlands belgium germany and the rest of the world
Nederland gang
Limboerg.
Its not REclamed,but clamed!!Its land that wasnt before.
Ok, but the word used is always “reclaimed”. Look up “reclaimed land” on Google.
@@GEOfocusChannel That maybe so,but its wrong..That people talk like that doesnt mean its the rigt way to talk.
Like we talk about England,but in reality we talk about the UK..
Not tru
Only frysk is accepted as a language the rest are dialects that is somthing between accent and language
Haring as eaten in the Netherlands is NOT RAW!!! its fermented with salt
“Raw” as in “not cooked”. Not “raw” as in “straight out of the ocean”.
@@GEOfocusChannel What is fermentation simple words?
Fermentation is the process in which a substance breaks down into a simpler substance. Microorganisms like yeast and bacteria usually play a role in the fermentation process, creating beer, wine, bread, kimchi, yogurt and other foods.
@@jimmymiata And we put them in vinegar as well, zure haring and rolmops!
@@dutchman7623 klopt maar dat noemen we toch ook niet rauwe haring
@@jimmymiata Nee, natuurlijk niet. Anders eten we ook rauwe ham ipv ruwe ham (gerookt).
We kennen ook pekelvlees (ook in zout).
Stokvis (gedroogd)
Er zijn zoveel manieren om vlees en vis te bereiden anders dan koken of bakken.
Im short not tall :/ maybe for you guys im tall
Do Dutch people worry about climate changing? This terra looks a little bit dangerous if sea level rises...
We are already building a water infrastructure so that we can live with higher waterlevels.
We set the pumps one click higher, like the Americans do with the air conditioning...
Measured sea level rise has been around 1.6 mm/year over the last 50 years. Only the computer models (that always fail to accurately predict anything) are scary. The Netherlands will be just fine as our dikes and water infrastructure was already build to handle 1-2 meters of sea level rise.
Utrecht be like: Oetrekt
Freisland is Friesland not Wsest Friesland. West Friesland is the north of noord holland....
belanda negara penjajah semoga negara ini hancur lebur..
Which century do you live in?
As a Dutchman I am ashamed of our colonial past, but at least these lands now have their independence. On the other hand, Indonesia has itself become a colonizer after it became undependent: New Guinea, Eastern Timor, Kalimantan, RMS, ...
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denmark is lower lying
How many is below sealevel?
There are different to measure it, but Netherlands has a lower average elevation than Denmark (30 meters vs 34 meters). I also see some sources say 31 meters for Denmark, but I think that's the mean, not the average.
@@GEOfocusChannel ok
Lived in The Netherlands from Oct 2001-Jun 2003 and loved it. Something I found surprising was that even in such a densely populated country, it's fairly easy to get out into rural areas and small towns. Great video as always!
Also whilst just living here you almost make 10k steps a day by just riding your bike, walking around and other transport methods which are faster than a car. Compare that to the U.S where people on average make less than 4-5k steps a day....
@@maartent9697 because of how the cities in the US are designed
I have lived in the Netherlands all my life...
Stupid Americans are completely obsessed with driving and hate all other transport methods.
Loved the video, Paul. The Netherlands are a fascinating country, full of history and places to visit.
The weather is a little "meh", but nowhere is perfect, I guess :)
If you are going to complain about the weather, at least put your back into it like we do. :D
The weather is the same as in GBR, Germany, Belgium, Denmark etc.
True, but both Belgium as The Netherlands have despite their small sizes remarkable regional differences in weather. I noticed, during my time in Delft the weather was much more often grey and rainy than at Maastricht University.
@@luxembourger Maastricht is also Netherlands you dummy.
If IT rains we complain when it is hot it is to hot end when it is cold it is not cold enoug
The actual highest point of the Netherlands (not just the kingdom but only the Netherlands) is mt Scenery on the island of Saba at 887 m high. This has been the case since 2010 when the island of Saba in the Netherlands Caribbean voted to become a special municipality in the country of the Netherlands.
Thank you for starting as late in the timeline as you did. It seems the earlier people start when describing this the more they conflate medieval Friesland with the Dutch when they have a totally different history from each other up until the late middle ages. It took Frisians hundreds of years to finally be forcibly incorporated into the feudal structure by outsiders.
The historical region of West Frisia is located in North Holland and was conquered in the Friso-Hollandic wars that concluded in the 1400s. So today's Fryslan is the central part of the Frisian-speaking sphere. More or less, you do get small communities of North Frisian appearing as far afield as Denmark.