 Located
in the northwestern Europe, Netherlands is a
parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy.
Amsterdam is the capital city of Netherlands and The
Hague is its seat of government.
It has Germany on its
east, the North Sea on the west and north, and Belgium
on its south. The country has a dense population.
According to the Index of Economic Freedom, it ranks
12th as the most free market capitalist economy in the
world.
Netherlands is known for many things such as
Gouda cheese, bicycles, tulips, windmills and clogs. It
also has a very high social tolerance level. The nation
is divided in to two parts by three rivers and these
rivers are the Meuse, the Waal and the Rhine.
There are hundreds of natural reserves in the country
and this includes the twenty national parks. Majority of
these natural reserves consist of woods, heathland and
lakes.
Natuurmonumenten and Staatsbosbeheer own majority
of these natural reserves. The economy of the country is
open and it is flourishing. Netherlands’ main commercial
activities include electrical machinery, petroleum
refining, chemicals and food-processing. It has been
reported that the country is the tenth leading country,
in terms of nominal Gross Domestic product per capita.
It is also the sixteenth largest economy worldwide.
|
