NETHERLANDS

=NETHERLANDS=
 * Capital || Amsterdam ||
 * Total Area (sqaure miles) || 15,768 ||
 * Languages Spoken || Dutch & Frisian ||
 * Major Religions || Christian, Muslim & Other ||
 * Population || 16,300,000 ||
 * Life Expectancy || 79 ||
 * Urban Population || 62% ||
 * Gross Domestic Product (per capita, US$) || $28,600 ||
 * Doctors (per 100,000 people) || 329 ||
 * Internet Users (per 100,00 people) || 522 ||

OVERVIEW
Most of Netherlands elevation is close to below sea level. There are some parts though, that are below sea level. The Netherlands climate zone is Marine West Coast, which means it has warm summers, cool winters, and rainfall all year. This country's vegetation zone is Deciduous Forest, which is mainly trees that shed their leaves before winter. The Urban Population Density for the Netherlands is over 250 people per square mile. The land use is commercial fishing. The resources used are, natural gas and petroleum oil.

CLIMATE
The climate zone in the Netherlands is Marine West Coast. This is a climate zone where they have warm summers, cool winters and rainfall all year. The best time to travel to Netherlands is during the summer or spring because, that is when the flowers bloom. The average temperature throughout the year is, 49 degrees F. The average amount of rainfall in a year is 3 inches.

VEGETATION
The vegetation zone is Deciduous Forest. A Deciduous forest is, somewhere of mainly trees that shed their leaves before winter. Lakes, marshes, peatland, woods, heaths, and agricultural areas determine the general floral species. Clay, peat, and sand are important soil factors for the inland vegetation regions.

POPULATION
The population density is over 250 people per square mile. The population density in people per square kilometer is over 100. the last estimated count of people who live in Netherlands turned out to be, 16,570,613, in July 2007. The Netherlands is the most populated country in the world with 477 people per square kilometer of the land (393 people including the internal waters). Netherlands is populated in 81% by Caucasian Dutch population of Germanic or Gallo Celtic descent. Contrary to the popular ideas, more Dutch are catholic 31% than protestant 21%. As in many Western countries, population of the Netherlands is getting older, and the median age is now almost 40. The Dutch call it "vergrijsing" of the population (from the colour of hair grey – "getting grey"). The population in the Netherlands has slightly more women than men.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
The land use in Netherlands is commercial farming. Commercial farming is, raising crops for sale, often on large farms. The two resources used in Netherlands are, coal and natural gas.