Interesting facts about the Netherlands
1. In the Netherlands, it is not necessary for a soldier to salute a superior officer.
2. The Netherlands has built 1400 km of long divisions on its seaside so that seawater does not enter the country. If these divisions are removed, 40% of the Netherlands will be submerged in water.
3. The people of the Netherlands are the tallest in the world. The average height of the men here is five feet and a half eleven inches, but in the southern Netherlands, it is an average less than an inch.
4. the Netherlands has the highest population density in the world. This is followed by Belgium and then Japan.
5. A 70 percent pig mass is made in the Netherlands.
6. Netherlands and Holland are not common words. Except for a small part of the Black Netherlands, its western part is called Holland.
7. In Netherlands, prostitution is legally recognized, but the condition is that girls should be more than 18 years of age and their customers ie boys should be 16 years and above.
8. The highest place in the Netherlands is only 323 meters above sea level.
9. There is a 'Christmas tree' at the main square of every city in the Netherlands.
10. On average, a Netherlands resident drinks 74 nectar in a year. Not only men but also women.
11. In the case of coffee drinkers of the Netherlands, Scandinavian is the second number after Cassio who drinks 140 liters of coffee on an average year.
12. The windmill has been used in the Netherlands for hundreds of years to extract water.
13. 86 percent of people from the Netherlands use English as a second language.
14. The total area of the Netherlands is 41,543 square kilometers which are 135th place in the world and the population is 1,67,88,973. Its area is less than 20 states of India while the population is less than 24 states. Its area is slightly less than Haryana (42,212).
15. The people have been making cheese since 400 AD. Apart from this, it also exports cheese worth seven billion euros every year, which is the highest in the world.
16. Despite being such a small country, it has close to 100 odd houses.
17. In Netherlands, water mills were used long back. Where 1000 hydro-mills exist several hundred years ago in one place, which still works today. At one time there were about 10,000 water mills at this place.
18. Due to rainy weather in the Netherlands, where people use raincoat instead of an umbrella. Because when the rain comes, there is strong wind along with it, due to which their umbrellas fly.
19. Where people use bicycles a lot. Almost everyone has a bicycle.
20. Only three percent of the people here do farming.
21. The international court is in the city of Haag, Netherlands.
22. There are 1,281 bridges in its city of Amsterdam.
23. In Dutch, Netherlands means "low country". A quarter of it is less than a meter below sea level.
24. The Netherlands is the best country for children according to a 2007 report.
25. The Netherlands national anthem is the oldest. It was written in 1568 but received official recognition in 1932. The flag of the Netherlands is also of 1572, which is the oldest three-color flag.
26. Orange carrot was first grown in Neerland and orange color is the national color of the Netherlands.
27. Duchess was the first European who discovered Australasia and New Zealand. He named Australia 'New Holland'.
28. India was a colony of the Netherlands until 1947, as India was a colony of England until 1947. Many Indonesian people still speak the Dutch language.
29. The Netherlands has two capital cities - Amsterdam and Haag. Amsterdam is the official capital according to the constitution and the Haag was from 1584 till then and still has some divisions concentrated in it.
30. Microscope, telescope, pendulum clock was invented in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries.
31. The Dutch company Philips taped audio in 1967, taped videos in 1972, C.D in 1982, and C.D-ROM in 1985.
32. In 2010, the highest number of people in the Netherlands has a broadband connection. (Nearly 38 percent people)