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And I have one question for you, Pirog. What makes someone an American?
But Americans in general seems to have VERY little knowledge of the rest of the world...
Orion, Hunter and guide wrote:I'm not flaming here, just expressing my opinion.
American Textbook wrote:The Netherlands
With about 14,5 million people jammed into an area half the size of Maine, the Netherlands is one of the world's most densely populated nations.
erm? We have plenty of room, we even have 16,3 million people in our country. Ok, the city's are big, the houses arn't cheap, but in the east of the Netherlands, there's enough space
There are more thatn 1000 people for each square mile. The country is sometimes called Holland, although strictly speaking Holland makes only a fraction of the Netherlands, about one-sixth.
The people of the Netherlands are called the Dutch. They speak the Dutch language, wich is derived from ancient German. The Netherlands is truly a low country. Only in the far southwest does the land rise in gentle hills, to attitudes, as high as 1000 feet.
The Dutch have been working ever since the 10th century to push back the sea and make more land for farms and homes.
erm... farms and homes? We have industry and all that stuff. Actually, Rotterdam (bigest harbor in the world) is situated in a place what was once sea... so farms
By building dikes they have created seaside lakes. Sometimes it was possible to drain the lakes by means of ditches. At other times, it was necessary to scoop out the water. Once this lakes were drained, they became large, flat fields. Some were turned into pastures for dairy cows. Other were planted with crops like wheat, sugar, beets and potatoes.
Uhuh, but we do have city's on those 'polders'And not only farms...
Reclaimed fields of this sort are called 'polders'. Roughly one-third of the land area of the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea.
Creation of new land an freshwater lakes is not the only reason for Dutch dikebuilding. Another is to protect lowlying areas against floods caused by storms and high tides. Along the southwest coast of the Netherlands, three major rivers (the Rhine, the Maas and the Schelde) fan out in a sprawling delta as they pour their waters into the North Sea. The Dutch have constructed dams, accross some of the rivers outlets to keep water from smashing in and destroying farms and towns, as had happended in the past.
last time we had a flood with people who died, was in, i believe, 1953. And this book lets me think, the Netherlands only have frams and towns... allthough we have more industry and stuff like that, that than farms.
The Dutch have exploited their location at the outlet of three major rivers to become a major trading nation.
Ships from all parts of the world dock at Dutch harbors like Rotterdam and Amsterdam. There they meet barges that ply the Rhine and other rivers reaching deep into Europe's heartland. An intricate network of canals helps in the movement of watertraffic. Rotterdam handles more cargo than any other port of the world. The Netherlands contains one of the worlds largest producing fields of natural gas, near the northern city of Groningen. There is engough gas to meet alt Dutch needs and sufficient amounts for exprot. But the Netherlands has only limited supplies of oil and coal and almost no mettalic minerals. To build industry the nation ahs depended heavily on imported raw meterials. Among the leading Dutch industries are oil refining, metalworking and food processing. Dutch chocolate, made from imported cocoa has a wide market. The Dutch countryside contains many small farms, but only a small fraction of the work is employed in agricultue. Because the reclaimed land is so valuable for farming, the Dutch often built their villages and roads atop dikes or on less fertile land.
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