![]() ![]() The country's official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamento as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. ![]() The Caribbean overseas territories- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba-became special municipalities of the country of the Netherlands in 2010. ![]() It also shares maritime borders with both countries and with the United Kingdom in the North Sea. In Europe, the Netherlands consists of twelve provinces, and borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coast-line to the north and west. It is the largest of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the others being Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten). ![]() The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland ( listen)), informally Holland, is a country located in Western Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean. Note: Even though the European Netherlands are located within the UTC☐ longitudes, the country adopted UTC+01:00 ( Central European Time) as its standard time under German occupation on 2 November 1942, with a +0:40:28 offset (+1:40:28 during DST) from Amsterdam’s LMT (UTC+0:19:32). ![]()
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