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Geography
Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany
52 30 N, 5 45 E
Area: 
total: 41,543 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
134
land: 33,893 sq km
water: 7,650 sq km
slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
total: 1,027 km
border countries: Belgium 450 km, Germany 577 km
451 km
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
Current Weather
temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters
mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast
lowest point: Zuidplaspolder -7 m
highest point: Mount Scenery 862 m (on the island of Saba in the Caribbean, now considered an integral part of the Netherlands following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles)
note: the highest point on continental Netherlands is Vaalserberg at 322 m
natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, salt, sand and gravel, arable land
arable land: 21.96%
permanent crops: 0.77%
other: 77.27% (2005)
5,650 sq km (2003)
89.7 cu km (2005)
total: 8.86 cu km/yr (6%/60%/34%)
per capita: 544 cu m/yr (2001)
flooding
water pollution in the form of heavy metals, organic compounds, and nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates; air pollution from vehicles and refining activities; acid rain
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Kyoto Protocol, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde)
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