From those of you who live in the Netherlands: can you share with me a little about your countries? More?

Question

than one country right? Where are you located?? Weather? Anything you care to share

Answer 1

The Netherlands are/is one country. The plural in the name is old, maybe because it used to include Belgium, Luxembourg, Suriname, Indonesia and the Netherlands Antilles too, but in Dutch we use the singular in daily use and the plural only in formal occasions like the passport.
It is situated north of Belgium (and that is north of France) and west of Germany.

We are on the other side of the North Sea from England, and have about the same weather as most of England, often rain or mist, grey skies, mild winters and cool summers.
But we also have the occasional nice day or week with sunshine and warm weather or in winter frost.

We are a fairly small country, it takes 4 hours to drive north to south, and less than 2 hours east to west. But with 16 000 000 people the economical power of the country is bigger than the size predicts.
Fairly easy going, although there are laws about almost everything.
On the whole, a nice country to live and most visitors seem to enjoy their stay too.

The landscape is pretty flat, the highest hill is about 300 meter or about 1000' high, and it in the outmost south, near the borders with Belgium and Germany.
The western and northern parts of the Netherlands are for a great part "polder" reclaimed land, and often below sea-level.
Makes for great sky shapes which we had today.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps
If you do not see the Netherlands on this map enter Amsterdam into the searchbar. That is the national capital, and the most known town.