Location:
Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany
Geographic coordinates:
52 30 N, 5 45 E
Map references:
Europe
Area: Area - comparative:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Netherlands on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Netherlands Geography 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Netherlands Geography 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
total: 41,543 sq km
[see also: Area - total country ranks ]
land: 33,893 sq km
[see also: Area - land country ranks ]
water: 7,650 sq km
[see also: Area - water country ranks ]
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data):
135
slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.
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