Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Geography of the Netherlands Location: Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany Geographic coordinates: 52 30 N, 5 45 E Map references: Europe Area: total: 41,526 kmē land: 33,883 kmē water: 7,643 kmē Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey Land boundaries: total: 1,027 km border countries: Belgium 450 km, Germany 577 km Coastline: 451 km Maritime claims: exclusive fishing zone: 200 nautical miles territorial sea: 12 nautical miles Climate: temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters Terrain: mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast Elevation extremes: lowest point: Prins Alexanderpolder -7 m highest point: Vaalserberg 321 m Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, arable land Land use: arable land: 25% permanent crops: 3% permanent pastures: 25% forests and woodland: 8% other: 39% (1996 est.) Irrigated land: 6,000 kmē (1996 est.) Natural hazards: the extensive system of dikess and dams protects nearly one-half of the total area from being flooded Environment - current issues: 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 Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Biodiversity, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol Geography - note: located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde) Table of contents 1 See also 2 External links 2.1 Maps See also Municipalities in the Netherlands External links Find postal code for address, and address for full postal code plus street number Locate town or village; find municipality it is part of, and some basic data For each municipality a pdf file - with statistics in Dutch, and with (towards the end) a map showing the neighborhoods (together ca. 11,000), and listing (a few pages further) the population figures etc. as well as the grouping into quarters (together ca 2,400) Lists of "places" (towns, villages, and various smaller entities), with municipality: alphabetical (ca. 4,800) - by province (extended, ca. 7,000) Maps Vialys http://www.locatienet.nl/ - almost the same as http://www.routenet.nl - apart from producing maps, also gives address range for a full postal code http://www.map24.nl/index.php?language=en (also used by http://www.lycos.nl/lycos/route/ ) http://www.routemaster.nl/ ; similar or the same: http://route.anwb.nl/zoek_plattegrond.html http://www.andes.nl/ (select "Interactieve kaart"): the same but one has to know the postal code http://www.travelmanager.nl/nl/contentimap/index.html: ditto maps of public transport planner http://www.ovr.nl http://www.mapquest.com/maps/main.adp?countrycode=169 to link directly to a city: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=NL&city= , type city at the end http://de.maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?country=nl Michelin NS rail travel planner - contains a detailed map of the whole country; to view a location, specify it as destination and choose an arbitrary point of departure, then ask for the route map of the post transport from the train station. Of course the map shows railroads and train stations clearly. If you specify "Public transport" as means of pre or post transport, you will be redirected to http://www.ovr.nl (see above). Yellow pages / Telephone directory - A map (plattegrond) is provided after searching for a company or person; if one just wants to use the map, do an arbitrary search like [1] , select Plattegrond and by zooming out and selecting an area to zoom in go to any part of the map. See also the links of: http://www.landkaartenindex.nl/nederland/nederland.htm ; includes [1], a list of links to towns maps Detailed town maps of Rijnland/Citoplan (note that on the overview maps, for enlargement one can often either select a box or a town and then a box) Detailed town maps of Falkplan (see at the bottom of that webpage) For public transport maps see Transportation in the Netherlands#External links. Beach locations are defined by km-pole numbers, indicated on wooden poles every 250 m. See map (zip-file) with beach from Den Helder to Hoek van Holland, showing these numbers and also public transport info. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.