101 Facts about The Netherlands

Begroetingen Motherfactors! I hope you had a lovely festive period and didn't get too much facting withdrawal in them two weeks... but if you didn't, don't worry we've got you sorted with some DUTCH FACTS! The land of pretty scenary, pretty flowers, and some heckin' fun facts for you to enjoy! Anyway, I'm babbling: enjoy 101 Facts about The Netherlands!

[DaDoM]

I'm British but I absolutely llloooovvveeee the Netherlands wishing all the best for them.

[wendywb]

My daughter was there on a trip in the summer of 2019. She loved it there and would go back in a heartbeat

[robertboender]

The poles are not because it's low but because the soil is to soft to build on. So they used poles to reach a lower layer of sand who can.

[liltinglullaby]

Yay! The Netherlands is my favourite country on this entire planet. Love from Hungary! 🇭🇺❤🇳🇱

Edit: LMAO at his pronunciation of IJssel. 🤣

[robertboender]

The Rijn River doesn't flow into the IJsselmeer, the IJSSEL does. The Rijn flows through Rotterdam into the North sea.

[noahvandenberg]

fun fact: the second c in curacao isn't pronounced as a k, but as an s

[Mr-.Facts.]

Fun fact: KLM is the world's oldest airline

[timliefferink]

As a dutchie living in a small country, its really fun to see video's like this and reading the comments.

And yes, its a normal thing for us to watch video's about ourselves, we are a tad self-entiteld ;)

[robertboender]

The Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter after the US not China.

[TheKiyokoTek]

My favourite part was when he talked about the Netherlands

[Sam_Dabboi]

fun fact: one block in the nether equals to eight blocks in the overworld

[anttibjorklund]

"The poses of the lions have different names. You learn something new every day"

Me, a heraldry enthusiast: Yes, I knew that.

[Watdafok]

I really loved the video asa dutch person!
Thanks for the video!

[TheUrbanGaze]

American expat to the Netherlands here.
Every time you said Zuid, I actually cringed.
Also, the coffee thing is really true. We have free coffee machines in government buildings, coffee stands at train stations, the university I go to is flooded with those things... Coffee is everywhere.
One more note: Our agriculture is so good, we have some of the cheapest groceries in the world. For instance, I can buy a bag of apples for 3 Euros, a loaf of bread for 1 Euro, and a kilo of chicken for 7 Euros.

[VictorCowo]

I'm from Belize and despite being a Central American/Caribbean country our prefer cheese (other than Happy Cow cheese of Austria) Dutch Cheese (Edem) is our go to cheese that we put on practically any food that normal see other cheese like from pasta to Latin dishes and sometimes on pizza and they are found in or on our traditional breakfast dishes

[thirzzz_]

Love they way ur trying to pronounce all the difficult Dutch places 😂🥰

[acage]

Great video! Some more fun facts:
The dutch also invented donuts
They sometimes call their country a little frog country

Love your work, blijf zo doorgaan!

[RFGfotografie]

102: We Dutch are extremely direct, open and fair.

[TheSuperappelflap]

Another fun fact: We do have delivery services that solely deliver flowers. Also, the Netherlands is home to the largest flower auction in the world, from where flowers, bulbs, vegetables, fruit, and any other kind of plant is sold to buyers all over the world. It is so large, that it has its own internet exchange and a massive datacenter located nearby, to give buyers and sellers the lowest possible latency.

[SlayingPotato]

Fun fact: I've seen a lot of people struggle with double vowel sounds

Ui/Uy: I didn't know how to type this, so just look it up in translate xD
IJ/Ei: basically a combination of ‘Hey’ and a short ‘Eye’
Oe: Oo
IE: as ‘ee’ or ‘ea’
Eu: Not sure how to explain this one too
Ou/Au/Ao: ‘ow’
Ee: ‘a’
Oo: ‘oh’
Aa: ‘ah’
Uu: like ‘ou’ in a weird Scottish ‘you’

II is not possible, you'd use ‘IE’

Now triples:

IEUW: ‘ew’ the w is just used because why not.
Eeuw: like a long ‘ew’, same use of w
Ooi: Just like ‘oi’
Aai: ‘Eye’
Eau: ‘oh’

This may help with your pronunciation