Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
CAPITAL: Constitutional capital: Amsterdam. Seat of government: The Hague ('s Gravenhage; Den Haag)
FLAG: The national flag, st...
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Netherlands
POPULATION 16,259,300ROMAN CATHOLIC 31 percentPROTESTANT 21 percentMUSLIM 5.3 percentOTHER 2.7 percentNONRELIGIOUS 40 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Netherlands, a small an...
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Netherlands, The
The Netherlands is a small country in the middle of Western Europe, bordering Germany, Belgium, and the North Sea. One of its best-known geographic characteristics is that one-third o...
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Area: 41,528 sq km (16,034 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 16,343,000Capital:
Amsterdam
; seat of government,
The Hague
Chief of state: Queen Beatrix
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Jan Peter...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - The Netherlands announced a complete ban on all
cattle transports on Saturday with immediate effect.
The Dutch Minister of Agriculture Gerda Verbur...
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The Netherlands has agreed to host the tribunal that will prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the United Nations announced Friday.U.N. Secretary-...
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The Dutch government will spend $38 million over the next four years to prevent both the growth of Islamic fundamentalism and right-wing nationalism, an official said Monday.The emphasis will be on...
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SABMiller, the world's third-largest brewer, said Monday will bid $1.2 billion for Grolsch, the Dutch beer with a distinctive swivel cap.Grolsch is the second-largest Dutch brewer after Heineken, w...
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The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software — freely distributed programs that anyone can modify — the Netherlands Ec...
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The number of euthanasia cases is falling sharply in the Netherlands where mercy killings were legalized six years ago, a government-funded report said Thursday.A survey presented to Deputy Health ...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Ruud van Nistelrooy was Friday named in the
Netherlands squad for the first time since a dispute with coach Marco
van Basten at last year's World Cup.
...
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One was a Somali refugee, the other an Argentine investment banker. Both are now high-profile Dutch women challenging this country to rethink its national identity.Princess Maxima, the Argentine-bo...
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Rembrandt is getting better with age. Four hundred years after his birth, he's drawing more people than ever to his native country _ for everything from art exhibits to walking ...
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Netherlands
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