Netherlands

Did you know?

• 🌊About a quarter of the country lies below sea level — they literally engineered new land out of the sea.
• 👥Has more bicycles (around 23 million) than people (around 17 million).
• 🥇Invented the modern stock exchange — Amsterdam, 1602 — and the first publicly traded company (the VOC).
• 👥The Dutch are the tallest people on Earth on average — men around 1.83 m.
• ✨About 30% of all babies in the Netherlands are still born at home.