Netherlands

The Netherlands, officially known as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is a country in northwest Europe. They border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and France with Sint Maarten in the Caribbean Sea.
Their current king is Willem-Alexander and their current prime minister is Dick Schoof (incumbent since 2024).
== History ==
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== Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ==
# Netherlands (constituent country) (1579-)
# Aruba (1986-)
# Curaçao (2010-)
# Sint Maarten (2010-)
== Provinces of the Netherlands (constituent country) ==
# Bonaire
# Drenthe
# Flevoland
# Friesland
# Gelderland
# Groningen
# Limburg
# North Brabant
# North Holland
# Overijssel
# Saba
# Sint Eustatius
# South Holland
# Utrecht
# Zeeland
== Former constituent countries ==
* Netherlands Antilles (1954-2010; was originally the colony of Curaçao and Dependencies prior to the 1954 charter of the kingdom and was divided into 6 provinces, each corresponding to one of the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten, in a similar fashion to the mainland Netherlands' 12 provinces. Aruba became a separate constituent country from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986, reducing the Netherlands Antilles' provinces from six to five, and the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved in 2010 when Curaçao and Sint Maarten became separate constituent countries, while the remaining islands became the 13th, 14th and 15th provinces of the Netherlands proper).
* Suriname (1954-1975; was originally the Dutch colony of Surinam (aka Dutch Guiana) prior to the 1954 charter; became an independent nation as the Republic of Suriname in 1975).
== Appearances ==
* The Cold War (Part 1)
*The Napoleonic Wars (Part 2) (Liberated by the Coalition)
*WW2 
== Trivia ==
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