Netherlands

Netherlands

Netherlands ranks 13th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sweden, Poland, and China. Memorable people born in present day Netherlands include Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Baruch Spinoza. Memorable people who died in Netherlands include Rembrandt, Baruch Spinoza, and Johannes Vermeer. Netherlands has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many painters and politicians.

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country in Western Europe along the North Sea coast. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. Together with the Caribbean Netherlands, consisting of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country's official language is Dutch, with English and Papiamentu as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands, and West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages, while Sinte Romani and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages. Read more on Wikipedia