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Official name<br />

Form of government<br />

Head of State<br />

Capital<br />

Seat of government<br />

Administrative structure<br />

Surface area<br />

Location<br />

Number of inhabitants<br />

Number of inhabitants per km 2<br />

Monetary unit<br />

Languages<br />

Kingdom of the Netherlands<br />

Constitutional monarchy,<br />

parliamentary democracy<br />

His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, King of<br />

the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau<br />

Amsterdam<br />

The Hague<br />

Twelve provinces and the overseas<br />

territories of Aruba, Curacao and<br />

St. Martin. The overseas islands of Bonaire,<br />

Saba and St. Eustatius, all three of which<br />

are situated in the Caribbean, are ‘special<br />

municipalities of the Netherlands’<br />

33,800 km 2<br />

Western Europe, by the North Sea,<br />

bordering Belgium and Germany<br />

16,915,195 (April 2015)<br />

500 (April 2015)<br />

Euro<br />

Dutch, Frisian<br />

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