What are some interesting facts about modern day Netherlands?

Question

ok so now i know where to get my tomatoes from. haha

Answer 1

amsterdam is not only lively, amazing, fun, but gorgeous, momentous and beautiful

however rotterdam is a tale all its own.

you will never never know if you never ever go.

Answer 2

The  Netherlands actually is a delta: the place where one, two or three rivers end up into the sea. That's why the netherlands are very flat and partly under sealevel. So whe have to fight the water with dykes and pumping-stations.

Even our royal prince WillemAlexander has graduated in water-management.

Also every day there are many traffic jams on the highways in the netherlands.  

Unfortunately tourists only seem interested in Amsterdam, the capital, because of the drugs and redlight district.   But the Netherlands is more then only Amsterdam.

Answer 3

Only 80 percent of the Dutch population is ethnically Dutch due to the large number of immigrants.

Answer 4

The Dutch are the tallest group of people in the world.  The average height for a man is about 180cm and women 170cm.  I'm 183cm (6ft), relatively tall in most countries but over here I'm used to havnig other men tower over men and often being eye to eye with girls.  It's quite nice if you like tall girls ;)

No one is sure exactly why they are all so tall, some say it's all the dairy products they eat - cheese, yoghurt, milk, with all that calcium making them big and strong.

Answer 5

"The Netherlands is a densely populated and geographically low-lying country and is popularly known for its windmills, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), dikes, tulips, bicycles and social tolerance. Its policies are liberal toward drugs, prostitution, same-s*x marriage, abortion and euthanasia."

"The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is formally incorrect as North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces"

"A remarkable aspect of the Netherlands is its flatness."

also a quarter of all the world's tomatoes come from the Netherlands..haha :)