Renowned for her cheese, canals, tulip fields, windmills, coffee shops and flat landscape, the Netherlands is a country located in Northwestern Europe. Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. The five largest cities of the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, and Eindhoven. Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands, with West Frisian, Papiamento and English being official regional languages. The October 2018 estimate of the Dutch population stands at 17,259,111. The country's form of government is the unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The Euro and the US dollar are the currencies used in the Netherlands. Willem-Alexander is the Netherlands' monarch, and Mark Rutte is the prime minister. Herewith a good number of impressive facts about this low-lying Dutchland country: 1. The Dutch consume the most licorice in the world. Dutch shops sell more than 80 varieties of licorice, with each person eating more th...
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