Water in the Netherlands is very important.
They make their own Cheeese and Clogs (which is a type of shoe), clogs were used by fishermen and farmers to protect their feet from fishhooks and nails, now they are sold as souvenirs, and sometimes people wear them.
Capital Amsterdam is home to the royal palace.
Water Dominates the country and there is a town called Geithoorn which has no roads only canals, dieks which are like smaller dams that keep the sea from getting to the land, if all the dieks were to break simultaneously, well the most feasible answer would be the whole country would be a big lake, and Belgium ah Belgium the most outlandish borders to ever been seen by anyone.
Around 1000 scattered windmills from the 1800s, the windmills were used in the past to pump out excess water,
1/4 of the land and 1/5 of the population (which is 17.5 million) is below sea level and half of the land is half a meter above sea level.
The Delta works are dams that stop the ocean from reaching the mainland and have backups just in case some of them break also it is the largest engineering project in modern history.
Shell the fuel company started in The Netherlands because of Gas fields.
The Dutch are on average, the tallest people on earth.
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