Name: 地理Now!オランダ (Geography Now! NETHERLANDS)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:19:29.000Z
Duration: 18 min 27 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Hey guys, so this is gonna be a little awkward. Why?

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Because 2 years ago my Dutch friend, Vincent, who used to do the animations before I regrettably hired Ken...

...He came and visited here in L.A. Long story short, I promised him he could be in the Netherlands episode.

So we pre-shot some footage, and this was the intro we made.

I flew over this guy, a real Dutchman. Say hi to Vincent! Right here. Hey, Vincent! Hey.

Vincent, I know the Dutch are tall but just step down from the box, okay?

I can never top those days. Oh, and this episode is on the Netherlands.

Now, there are many countries that deal with water issues.

Some lack water, some have too much water,

and some, like the Netherlands, have bridled the wild stallion and have learned how to control the water and use it to their advantage.

Water is probably the most powerful element in the Netherlands and without it they would be, I don't know, pretty useless.

So yeah, stop calling this place "Holland." That's just 1 part of the country.

Even though their country's national tourism website is called Holland.com.

Oh, and hehe, there's a town called The Hulk.

First of all, the country is located in northwestern Europe along the North Sea, bordered by Germany and Belgium.

The country is divided into 12 provinces. Here's 2016 Vincent naming all of them for you.

They are Limburg, North Holland, Zeeland, South Holland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Overijssel, Drenthe,

Groningen, Friesland, North Brabant, and the newest province, Flevoland.

Almost all of Flevoland was reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in the 1950s.

So besides being famous for making cheese and clogs, we also MAKE OUR OWN LAND.

Amsterdam, the largest city and economic hub of the country and home to the royal palace,

and just a skip over, the third largest city, The Hague acts as the second capital,

which holds the seat of government as well as the International Court of Justice.

The second largest city, though, would be Rotterdam, which holds the busiest seaport in all of Europe.

The busiest airport, though, is of course Amsterdam's Schiphol International,

Europe's third busiest airport, carrying nearly 70 million passengers annually.

Apart from the mainland European part, the country actually holds sovereignty

over 6 other island entities in the Caribbean, remnants of the colonial past.

These are collectively called the "Dutch Caribbean," and here's where it gets a little confusing.

Technically, the Netherlands is a country made up of 4 countries:

the mainland Netherlands, as well as 3 other constituent countries,

kind of like what Wales and Scotland are to the UK.

They are Aruba, Curaçao and Saint Martin,

which is actually half of an island shared with the French overseas territory of the same name, but in French.

This means that this 1 island is the only area which the Netherlands technically borders France.

These guys hold a high level of autonomy. They can have their own constitutions and currency.

Otherwise, the remaining 3 islands are Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and little Saba

which by the way has the shortest airport runway in the world.

These 3 fall under the title of special municipalities and do not belong to any province.

They are directly controlled by the Dutch government.

However, in 2011, they decided to switch currencies and adopt the US dollar.

All these islands lie in the sub-region known as the Lesser Antilles.

Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire are usually referred to as the ABC islands, lying in the sub-region of the Leeward Antilles,

whereas St. Eustatius, Saba, and St. Martin, usually called the SSS Islands, are located in the sub-region of the Leeward Islands.

Keep in mind, at one point all 6 of these islands were called the "Netherland Antilles"

and operated collectively as a single constituent country with the capital at Willemstad in Curaçao .

They even competed separately in the Olympics.

With the exception of Aruba, who had autonomy in 1986,

it wasn't until the early 2000s when they all voted for their future and it kind of went like this:

NETHERLANDS: Okay, guys, you have 4 options for your future. Choose wisely.

You can have closer ties to us, remain just as you are in the Netherlands Antilles,

autonomy as a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands,

or you can opt for complete independence as a new nation and break away from us.

ARUBA & CURAÇAO: We vote for autonomy as constituent countries!

S. EUSTATIUS, BONAIRE, & SABA: We want closer ties, and we'll settle for special municipality status.

Really, Bonair? You're one of us, the ABC Islands!

You're really gonna ditch us like that and leave us with this half-Frenchy Magoo?

So there you go! That's how you make a Netherlands.

There's even a town with no roads and only canals. But how did it end up this way?

Somewhere around the 9th century, people were kind of fed up with all the flooding and invented these sea walls known as "dijks"

which surrounded "polders" or reclaimed land plots, protected by the dijks.

To this day, the Netherlands has reclaimed about a fifth of its total land mass from the sea.

So what would happen if all the dijks were destroyed and all the water just came and flooded everything?

Scientists speculate that the country would go from looking like this, to this.

Yep. Luckily, the Dutch are fantastic engineers and have been taming this dragon for centuries.

And speaking of engineering, there are so many notable spots to check out in case you ever visit.

but the most notable one probably being the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,

the enclaves and exclaves of Baarle-Nassau, we talked about this in the Belgium episode,

the world's largest flower garden at Keukenhof,

and of course there are somewhere around 1,000 historic windmills left in the country from the 1800s,

mostly in the Kinderdijk area, a UNESCO heritage site.

Keep in mind, though, the country has a ton of modern wind turbines that help supply energy to the nation,

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