- "The Netherlands" and "Holland" are used to describe the same country?

- One quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level?

- The International Court of Justice is at the Peace Palace in The Hague?

- The Netherlands has approximately 480 inhabitants per square kilometre?

- With only 0.008% of the world's area, the Netherlands is the world's third largest agricultural exporter?

- The Netherlands was one of the European Union's founding nations?

- The Netherlands has at least 15,000 km of cycle tracks?

- Dutch is also spoken in Belgium, northern France, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba?

- The Netherlands still has about 1,000 traditional working windmills?

- The Dutch are the tallest people in Europe?

- Amsterdam is entirely built on piles?

- The Netherlands always has a coalition government, which makes it a country of compromises?

- The Netherlands has nearly 1,000 museums, with 42 in Amsterdam alone?

- Almost every Dutch person has a bicycle and there are twice as many bikes as cars?

- The Netherlands is the world's eighth largest exporter?

- People in Holland eat raw herring with onions on top?

- About 30% of all Dutch babies are born at home?

- You can see 22 paintings by Rembrandt and 206 by Van Gogh in Amsterdam?

- The Netherlands has the highest number of part-time workers in the EU (four in ten people)?

- The Netherlands' highest point is 323 metres high and is therefore called a "mountain"?

- You'll find a bunch of flowers in almost every Dutch living room?

- Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, but The Hague is the seat of government?

- Most Dutch people speak at least one foreign language?

- One in every three Dutch people belongs to a sports club?

- Rotterdam is the world's biggest seaport?

- After Scandinavians, the Dutch are the world's biggest coffee drinkers?

- People of 200 nationalities live in Amsterdam?

- The Netherlands has one of the youngest populations in the EU?

- When your plane arrives at Schiphol, it lands 4.5 metres below sea level?

- The Netherlands has the highest cable density in Europe?

- Amsterdam has 1,281 bridges?

- When Dutch schoolchildren pass their exams, they hang a Dutch flag and a school bag outside their homes?