The Netherlands Project

1. The Netherlands Project
By: Jason Ercolano
Today we are talking about the
Netherlands

2. Border for Netherlands
• Germany is a country that borders the
Netherlands. A fun fact about Germany is that
they just won the World Cup (2014)

3. Netherlands Facts
• 1. They have NEVER won a World Cup
• 2. They have won 230 Summer Olympics
medals and 78 Winter Olympic medals
• 3. Their national meal is the Herring

4. Landforms Around the Netherlands
• Their Latitude and Longitude are 52.3167⁰
North and 5.500⁰ East
• The Artic Ocean is near the Netherlands
• The Hague and the Wadden Sea are in the
Netherlands

5. Amsterdam, the Capital City

6. History
• The Anne Frank house
is in Amsterdam. Anne
Frank was a little
Jewish girl that had a
diary of her family life
in hiding in WW2, and
got killed in a
concentration camp.

7. History
• The Netherlands used
windmills to drain all
of the water for better
and richer farmlands

8. Soccer• The
Netherlands is
famous for
their soccer
team even
though they
have never
won a World
Wup

9. • The
Netherlands
has the
population
of 16.8
million

10. • 70% of the world's bacon comes from
Netherlands.
• http://www.careertrotter.eu/working-
abroad/working-in-the-netherlands
• http://www.weekendnotes.com/interesting-fa
cts-about-netherlands/

11. The Netherlands are the tallest people
• The Dutch are the tallest in
the world with an average
height of 184 cm for men
and 170 cm for women
• http://www.weekendnotes.c
om/interesting-facts-about-
netherlands/

12. Plants in the Netherlands
• 75% of the world's
flower bulb production
comes from
Netherlands
• http://www.weekendno
tes.com/interesting-
facts-about-
netherlands/

13. COFFEE!!!
• The Dutch are the world's
biggest coffee drinkers
after the Scandinavians
with an average of 140
litres of coffee a year or
3.2 cups a day.
• http://www.weekendnotes.
com/interesting-facts-
about-netherlands/

14. Currency
• The Netherlands use Euros which is 1.13 of
an American dollar

15. Climate in the Netherlands
1. The Netherlands have a
temperate maritime climate
influenced by the North Sea
and Atlantic Ocean, with cool
summers and moderate
winters. Daytime
temperatures varies from
2°C-6°C in the winter and
17°C-20°C in the summer.
• http://www.weatheronline.co.u
k/reports/climate/The-
Netherlands.htm

16. Cheese (:
• The Dutch have been
making cheese since 400
AD
• Total cheese production
in Holland is 30 million
pounds per week
• http://www.hollandsbes
t.com/cheese/_popup/c
heese_facts.htm

17. Clogs
• Wooden shoes or clogs or
"Klompen" have been popular
in the Netherlands for about
700 years as industrial
footwear worn by farmers,
fishermen, factory workers,
artisans and others to protect
their feet from injury and keep
them dry
• http://www.weekendnotes.co
m/interesting-facts-about-
netherlands/

18. • It is the bicycle capital of the
world with more than 18
million in the country. That's
more than 1 bicycle per
person
• http://www.weekendnotes.co
m/interesting-facts-about-
netherlands/

19. • For 4 evenings in a row during May
and June since 1909, thousands of
Dutch school children and their
parents walk 5 or 10 km at a time
through streets in huge processions
called the avondvierdaagse, or
'evening four-day marches' while
slurping on half-cut lemons and
sweets on strings around their
necks.
• http://www.weekendnotes.com/int
eresting-facts-about-netherlands/