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Various terms have been used in English to refer to the Netherlands and its inhabitants. '(The) Netherlands' is the official name of the European part of the 'Kingdom of the Netherlands'. The term 'Holland' is commonly used as a synonym for the Netherlands, but the word Holland derives from a region in the west of the country that currently makes up two of the twelve provinces, namely North Holland and South Holland. The country's people and language are called 'Dutch'. The term 'Low Countries' is used sometimes to refer to the Netherlands, but technically it refers to a bigger region in Western Europe, including Belgium and Luxembourg. To address this confusion some solutions have been proposed, for instance, in linguistics, the term Netherlandic has been coined |
Netherlands Information: Inside
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