The land of pot , hookers , tulips , windmills , wooden shoes , and bicycle lanes ( which seem to intrigue tourists )
The Netherlands (i /?n?ð?rl?ndz/; Dutch: Nederland, pronounced [?ne?d?rl?nt] ( listen); West Frisian: Nederlân; Dutch Low Saxon: Nederlaand) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with parts in the Caribbean. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. The capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government is The Hague.[8]
The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland, although North and South Holland are actually only two of its twelve provinces (see terminology of "the Netherlands"). The word Dutch is used to refer to the people, the language, and anything pertaining to the Netherlands. This lexical difference between the noun and the adjective is an attribute of the English language that does not exist in the Dutch language. The adjective 'Dutch' is derived from the Diets language that was spoken in the area, which is now called Middle Dutch.
The Netherlands was one of the first parliamentary democracies. Among other affiliations the country is a founding member of the European Union (EU), NATO, OECD and WTO. With Belgium and Luxembourg it forms the Benelux economic union. The country is host to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and five international courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The first four are situated in The Hague as is the EU's criminal intelligence agency Europol and judicial co-operation agency Eurojust. This has led to the city being dubbed "the world's legal capital".[9] The Netherlands has a capitalist market-based economy, ranking 15th of 157 countries according to the Index of Economic Freedom.[10]
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 25% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level,[11] with 50% of its land lying less than one metre above sea level.[12] Significant land area has been gained through land reclamation and preserved through an elaborate system of polders and dikes. Much of the Netherlands is formed by the estuary of three important European rivers, which together with their distributaries form the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Most of the country is very flat, with the exception of foothills in the far southeast and several low-hill ranges in the central parts. The BES islands, or Caribbean Netherlands, became part of the Netherlands proper after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010.
Map
A map of the area where i reside ( i live in a tiny town near the 'U' from Uithoorn called 'Kudelstaart'
Mah village has wiki link!!!]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudelstaart]The bus line that is mentioned is thankfullt uses by me to go to my work....
I work at Burger King in the coolest city of the netherlands ... AMSTERDAM
Some pics of amsterdam ... my city Ft. some famous landmarks The munt tower with my BK in the foreground
The I AMsterdam sign with the 'Rijksmuseum' in the background where rembrands nightwatch painting resides 
Dam square with the war monument in the foreground the dam palace in the background , and madame tussauds and the 'bijenkorf' ( Beehive) wherehouse on the sides
