Country profile. This paper is about the Netherlands. Im going to tell something about the culture and history of the Netherlands. Which holidays do we have? The demography of the Netherland.

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Table of content:

  • Page 1: Frontpage
  • Page 2: Table of content
  • Page 3: Introduction
  • Page 4: Culture + history
  • Page 5: Demography
  • Page 6: Pictures of the demography
  • Page 7: Economy
  • Page 8: Infrastructure
  • Page 9: Pictures of the infrastructure
  • Page 10: Political situations
  • Page 11: Conclusion

Introduction

This paper is about the Netherlands. I’m going to tell something about the culture and history of the Netherlands. Which holidays do we have? The demography of the Netherland. What’s the age, the work, and the salary differences of the residents? The economy of the Netherlands.  How do the residents earn and spent their money? How do the government spend and earn their money? The infrastructure is about the railroads, roads, main ports Rotterdam and Amsterdam. How long are the railroads?  How big is the biggest airport of the Netherlands?  And how is the political situation of the Netherlands?


Culture and history of the Netherlands

The Netherlands culture includes different kind of cultural activities. There are also a lot of traditions , holidays and so on. We have a lot of holidays. Queens day is on 30 April that’s the day of our previous queen’s birthday. In the Netherlands a lot of people are Christian so we celebrate Christmas, good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost are national holidays. In  a lot of places they celebrate before Ash Wednesday carnival. On 5 december we celebrate St. Nicolas, but that isn’t a holiday. St. Marten is also a Christian party, but it isn’t national. In the Netherlands we celebrate just like in any other places new years eve.

Each province has its traditional dishes and delicacies such as boluses from Zeeland, Bossche bulbs from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant and Limburg flan. The Netherlands is also familiar for their cheese and their Dutch herring. What is also very known about the Netherlands are the clogs. They were invented over 800 years ago so it’s a part of our culture and history.

In the Stone Age and Iron Age there wasn’t a Dutch identity. In the Roman Age the Roman had a name for Dutch people living in certain parts of the country. They called them in general the Belgian people so they weren’t aware of the Dutch’s yet. The history of the Netherlands is separated in seven periods. In 1945 the Netherlands officially belongs to the European Union. On 1 January 2002 the Euro was introduced in the Netherlands and other countries in the EU as the currency. Now we’re in the period of television and computer. This period is started since 1950. For example in 1953 there was a flood and in 1992 there was the Bijlmer disaster. This event include to the history of the Netherlands.

Demography

In the Netherlands the population contains 16.660.734 people. Each day the residents grow with 235 persons. The most people who live in the Netherlands are 40 years old. 135000 men has this age and 132.000 women are 40. The people of 45 years old are also a lot, because there’re 134.00 men and 131.000 women with this age. In the Netherlands live 1743 people who are older than 100 years. The most of the people are women, but the men who reaches this age is growing. Men are in the minority with this age only 1  of the 7 people above 100 are men. You can also see that there’re not a lot of people who gets above the 105 years old.

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There are Two years ago the work population of the Netherlands contained 7715 million people. These people work in the agriculture and horticulture, livestock sector, fishery, industry, trade and banking, transport sector and tourism. 64% works in the Services, 29% works in the Industry and 4% works in the Agriculture. People who work in the Netherlands has a lot of safeties. if you work somewhere your boss can’t fire you without a good reason. If you get fired you can get for instance an unemployment benefit it depends on how long you worked somewhere and other things the benefit also ...

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