NETHERLANDS Provinces, constituent countries/ Special municipalities EXPLAINED

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[GeographyNow]

This was a fun one! Auke from Atlasova came over to not only help with some footage I needed for future projects, but we figured, why not also cover his country, the Netherlands in an all new administrative division video? We haven't done one in a while! Everything from the flat polders to the top of Mt. Scenery, it's the KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS! ENJOY!

[liamweaver]

Another thing about Zwolle is during WW2, it was liberated by a single one-eyed French Canadian soldier named Léo Major. A street is named after him in the town itself. As a little bit of personal trivia, someone I know from the Netherlands was born in Zwolle, in a hospital that had been around for decades, and she surmises that if it wasn't for Major, that Hospital would have likely been destroyed by allied artillery.

[justcrazymarijn]

As a Dutch person, this is what i've dreamt of for many years.
Thanks Paul and the team <3

[VinnieTheGreat]

As someone who grew up on Curaçao, I’m so glad to have y’all talk about it and the other administrative divisions in the Netherlands. Masha Danki Barbs and Auke!

[qhairunhaziq]

Hey Barbs, if u had time, can u do videos of :

- Provinces of Indonesia 🇲🇨
- States and federal territories of Malaysia 🇲🇾
- Regions of Greece 🇬🇷
- Regions of Italy 🇮🇹
- Departments of Colombia 🇨🇴
- Administrative regions of Myanmar 🇲🇲
- Federal entities of Mexico 🇲🇽
- Administrative regions of China 🇨🇳
- Provinces of South Korea 🇰🇷
- Governorates of Iraq 🇮🇶
- Counties of Ireland 🇮🇪
- Provinces of Iran 🇮🇷

Love Netherlands from Malaysia. 🇲🇾🧡🇳🇱

[DenDave_]

Bonus fact about Noord-Holland: The capital (Haarlem) is the place that gave it's name to the neighbourhood Harlem in New York. Another such place is Brooklyn, named after Breukelen, and then there are various other places with minor name connections like Broadway, Wall Street, Staten Island, Bronx and more. Lots of famous places in New York (formerly New Amsterdam) with Dutch roots, i rather like that history personally.

[bbslugger]

curacao and aruba are huge in baseball, they pretty much carry the kingdom of the netherlands team in the baseball world cup

[lennartvers]

Fun fact that the Brabo in the video did not mention. Is that Noord-Brabant is the proud world leading producer (over 75% of total production) of what the Americans refer to as 'Molly'.

[pianemova]

As a Brazilian-portuguee-dutch I am very proud of my heritage, visited all of these islands, fun fact: in the ABC islands they speak "Papiamentu" a Portuguese based creole with some Spanish, dutch and arawak native language mixed into it, if you are fluent in Portuguese you can still understand most of it. Pasa bon dia (have a nice day)!!!

[FairyCRat]

5:57 by the way, that part of Belgium is actually 2 provinces, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant, plus Brussels which is an enclave in the Flemish Brabant province. And the province east of that is called Limburg, just like the one in the Netherlands.

[denisevlogiev]

I love the Dutch they are such an amazing nation and the people are all kind and know how to have fun, I'm happy to have several Dutch friends. Love from Bulgaria

[aafkeroest]

2:58 fun fact: my name is frisian too! Even though I'm not from Friesland either.

[soanyway]

Fun fact about Curaçao: Most of the Oil the allies used during WW2 was refined here, so The kingdom of the Netherlands was sending the most oil. Not the United States. Oh, and Curaçao only actually became a ‘country’ in 2010, making it one of the youngest countries in the world. (I’m 12, and I’m older. It’s a fact I love saying.)

[googleboy]

During WW2, the Aruban oil refinery (known to the locals as ‘Lago’) was used as a fueling hub for the Allies. Fuel and oil from Aruba was also used for the European Allies.

The oil refinery has nothing to do with Venezuela, however; many years later - Citgo did have gas stations in Aruba. Citgo is a Venezuelan owned oil company with fueling stations in the USA too.

[SirThanksalot_]

to add some more context regarding some province names:
1. There is also a Limburg in Belgium. We call the Dutch one Nothern Limburg. As the name might suggest, they used to be one, until the Belgian Revolution officially ended in 1839.
2. The two Brabants have a third province in the middle: Antwerp. Join them together and you have more or less the historical Duchy of Brabant.

[ADBProductions_]

I hope you can do one of these on the Departments of Colombia, they are so diverse both physically and culturally, and I think you will have a really fun time researching it!

[chrisclancy]

Bonaire has the best diving and windsurfing in the Caribbean. I was lucky enough to go there and also Curacao in 2008! Also, both Curacao and Aruba are really into baseball with many players from there joining the MLB

[themetroidprime]

The video of tye Old English and Frisian speakers really feels like 2 wizards speaking the Olde Tongues together that absolutely no other mere mortal could comprehend.

[Aldmeris]

these videos are my favourite on this channel, I like these more than the full-on country episodes, I hope we'll see more of these after Zimbabwe video is concluded.

[treyshaffer]

11:20 Fun fact about Bonaire: They held my great-uncle ransom in the 70's!

My grandpa started a company for testing oil and my great-uncle went there. The business deal fell through, so they held him hostage there for a year. Eventually, my grandpa paid the ransom and he got back to his native Texas.