page_title: Outline of the Netherlands
section_title: General reference
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of the Netherlands / General reference
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Netherlands.
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Netherlands.
  The Netherlands comprises the mainland located in Northwest Europe and several islands located in the Caribbean that, together with Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten in the Caribbean Sea, constitute the sovereign Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. Its European mainland is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.
  The European Netherlands constitutes the vast majority of both the country and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as such 'the Netherlands' in common parlance often implicitly refers to this entity. Similarly, the articles linked to below predominately consider the European Netherlands.
context_section_description: Pronunciation: /ˈnɛðərləndz/ (listen)
  Common English country names: Netherlands, (imprecisely Holland)
  Official English country name: Netherlands
  A constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which comprises the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
  Common endonym(s): Nederland
  Pronunciation: /ˈnɛðərləndz/, Dutch: [ˈneːdərlɑnt] (listen)
  Official endonym(s): Nederland
  Adjectivals: Dutch, Netherlands
  Demonym(s): Dutch
  Etymology: Name of the Netherlands
  International rankings of the Netherlands
  ISO country codes: NL, NLD, 528
  ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:NL
  Internet country code top-level domain: .nl
caption: An enlargeable map of the European Netherlands
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