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Information about country:Netherlands

Area: 41526 km2.
Population: 16200000 people.
Phone code: 31
Capital: Amsterdam
Currency: EUR.
Languages: English, Dutch, Netherlands
Religion: Catholicism, Protestant
Emergency telephone: 112
 

The kingdom of Netherlands is located in the Western Europe, its coast is washed by the North Sea. The political system of the Netherlands is constitutional monarchy; the head of the state is the king (queen).
Climate here is marine. The winter is soft and usually it rains, average temperature of January fluctuates from +1 °С to +3 °С, in the summer - from +16 °С to +17 °С. The climate is unpredictable and weather changes fast.
It is developed country where highly technological branches of industry prevail. The especially developed branches are: aviation and ship industries, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, agriculture, diamond refinement. The Netherlands is the large manufacturer and the exporter of flowers.
Veluwexoom and Kennemer dunes are the national parks. You can take part in water excursions. During the excursions it is possible to see King’s palace of XVII century, Freedom monument, and also the Amsterdam tide gauge.
Here there are a lot of flower plantations, museums, churches. In Zandam there is Peter's house. In Rotterdam there is Erasmus Roterodamus’s bridge, the largest bridge in the world. The red-light district is the famous area of Amsterdam, it occupies the most part in the oldest quarter of a city.
In this country it is not recommended to carry a fur coat and clothes from a natural skin, because of the defenders of animals. The basic resorts are located in cities of Harlem, Maastricht, Hague and Amsterdam.

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