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!
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.
Yeah, from what I've heard the Dutch and Canadians have quite the bromance going on, since the Canadian military actually played the biggest role in the liberation of the Netherlands.
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!
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.
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.
And to keep going with Zeeland, the Roosevelt family is originally from this province. The capital Middelburg is also the host to University College Roosevelt, a vibrant UC paying tribute to the Roosevelts.
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
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. 🇲🇾🧡🇳🇱
9:44 the name what he probably wanted to hear is "Hollandse Nieuwe". This is what we call the haring when it's catched during a certain time of the year.
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
Zelfs voordat ik de video heb bekeken, dankjewel. Niet alleen voor de video's over het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden maar ook zeker voor alle andere video's. Openheid van "zaken" helpt de wereld en de ontwikkeling daarvan. Nogmaals, Dankjewel Barb.
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)!!!
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.
Just adding some background. The Spanish king, which he worked for was Charles V, who reigned over large portions of Europe. He traveled and visited most of his lands and was respected and a decent leader. The Netherlands were also part of the Holy Roman Empire. Charles successor, King Philip II kinda changed the deal with the Netherlands and forced catholicism and higher taxes on our country. Therefore that sentence was mentioned, we used to be a fairly happy part of the Empire...we respected Spanish leadership, but the oppression since Philip II made us declare independence.
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.
There is a small part of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, NY that was the town of New Utrecht. There’s a Dutch Reform Church that pre-dates the American Revolution, and a Mile Stone (replica) that explains the old make up of Dutch Brooklyn. My old High School is even New Utrecht High School (the outside was used as the location establishing shot for the TV series “Welcome Back Kotter”).
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!
I love these more in depth videos about country subdivisions. I’m from Assen I know some fun facts about the northern provinces: Friesland and Groningen have a big rivalry with eachother It’s a common joke to say no one lives in Drenthe The people from Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe are often very antagonistic towards city people, but If you’re not being too insensitive no one will mind.
Where Frisians live was way bigger, stretching from north Holland province all the way to Hamburg, but since it never had a kingdom, most Frisians were assimilated into Dutch and Germans by the Dutch and Germans and for the Dutch and Germans
One of my best friends is half-dutch and half-dominican. Her and her family are just awesome. I have also met many people from The Netherlands and I am doing businesses in Curaçao so, I can definitely say that most people under the Kingdom of The Netherlands are some of the friendliest and lovely people I have ever met in the world. Much love from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 ❤
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'.
Fun fact about Belgium we had 9 provinces. So they build the atomium with 9 spheres but then they separated Brabant in between Flemish and Walloon so now we have 10 prov.
Started watching Geography now years ago and never could I have guessed my hometown of Nijmegen would ever be featured, love to see it. Keep up the good work 👌
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.
Glad to see you talk about the Caribbean Regions this time, unlike in the France Episode. My colleague from St. Martin is still salty about that. Still love the show though haha
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.
Thanks for this video, I'm a Czech but I was born in Limburg, In Landgraaf. I don't remember my life there but It's always been my dream to go back. Great video!
I love this little crazy country, near whose border I grew up. 😍 The Low German from my home region has many Dutch loan words, the landscape is the same, we also call our land gains "polder", visiting Groningen is huge fun every time and Amsterdam also offers a lot to marvel at outside of the tourist crowds (I think the drive to Amsterdam over the Afsluitdijk alone is great) 🤩
The Enschede fireworks disaster was wild. I was born and raised in that city. At the time, I was still in high school. There were two massive explosions, a few minutes apart. We felt the first one, but it was a slight tremor. I asked my mom if she felt it too. As we were talking, the second major explosion occurred and it felt like a mini earthquake. The thing is, we were about 5km (~3 miles) from where it happened. Pretty far all things considered. I thought maybe the nearby gas station had exploded. We looked to the north and saw this MASSIVE black smoke cloud and turned on the TV, realizing it was so much worse than we thought. Apparently it was visible from dozens of kilometers away. It wasn't long before all the information came in. The area it happened in was close to our childhood home, near downtown. The district has since been built up again and it's one of the fancier neighborhoods in my city these days, but holy crap, that was insane. The whole district was cordoned off for a very long time. It was just GONE. More than 1200 people lost their homes. About as many were injured. And a few dozen people lost their lives. Definitely one of the darkest days in my city's history.
Fun video; it really helps people to get a bit of a better idea of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. The photo you have at 3:22 is from the West Friese markt in Schagen by the way: it's found in the region West-Friesland, which is found in the province of Noord- Holland but not Friesland (though there is a lot of shared history, but today it's in Noord- Holland). We have tons of regional identities and cultures in the country, I identify as a Westfries for instance.
Probably comes from the common confusion as what is known in the Netherlands as Frisian is internationally recognized as West Frisian (East and North Frisian being in Germany/Denmark). So someone might google west frisian market thinking it is in Friesland, just a hunch
Gelderland is also home Duivelsberg, a village/hill that the Netherlands annexed from Germany after WW2(they originally had more but returned almost all the land in the 60s)
There is a third city in the Netherlands that claims to be the oldest, Voorburg, then called Forum Hadriani, started as a Roman outpost aswell and grew to be an economical centre during its time
im from gelderland and i havent looked at my own province this way yet. wildcard is pretty much a good way to describe the province. and for some extra information we are proud of being the province with wildlife (:
As someone who has lived in Noord Brabant and Utrecht, and now lives in the south of Gelderland I can only say it feels like a different coutry all together. The road quality is piss poor and trips usually take twice as long. Maintainence of city properties like city hall, parks, schools and even the ditches along the roads etc are Eastern European like. To a point where stadiums collapse, fixing roads will take multiple years and travelling by bus or train gets increasingly more difficult and the weeds are so high you are unable to see whats going on on the opposite direction. Oh and in Nijmegen we throw our trash on the street like New Yorkers, not in dumpsters or underground like the rest if the Netherlands. So the city is littered with trash.
I feel like tourists go to Amsterdam/Holland. And Dutch people go to Gelderland when they go on holiday. (Ok, Dutch people go outside the Netherlands as well, but you get my point.)
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.)
A small correction, the Veluwe nature reserve is actually way bigger than national park de Hoge Veluwe of which you showed a map so technically it isn't a correct map, but further a great video
As a German living in Limburg I found a typo Barbs it's Vaalserberg you missed the L. Also it is know as Drielanden punt 3 countries point where The Netherlands Belgium and Germany meet.
The special municipality is a EU OCT, the same status as the Caribbean Countries. So this means that despite being fully under the control of the Hague, they have a completely separate legislation, taxation system, healthcare system, etc, than that of the European Netherlands. In essence they act as a separate country, with different rights, despite being fully under the control of the Hague. A notable difference is the complete absence of the "general equal treatment law" (algemene wet gelijke behandeling), since it was never introduced into the municipality. Despite it being promised by the Hague since 2010. This is in contrast to for example the French Caribbean islands who are EU OR's. These are integral parts of France, with the same laws and rights. The current status of the special municipality, was not what they originally chose. And they have been protesting and voting against it in referendums for more than a decade now. It was supposed to be temporary phase while transitioning to OR status, but the Hague made it clear that wouldn't happen soon after the formation of the municipality.
Being from Curaçao, I hope you one day decide to do dedicated episodes to the Caribbean islands that aren't independent countries. I totally do not have an ulterior motive or anything.
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.
Nice video! You mentioned Frisians speaking their own language, but you forgot to mention the other officially recognised languages of the Netherlands. In the provinces of Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland and also southern Friesland, Low Saxon is spoken, and in Limburg, Limburgs is spoken (a tonal language!). Besides, on the ABC islands, Papiamentu is an official language, and on the SSS islands it is English. Some mistakes: Flevoland is NOT 100% made of polders. There were two small islands, Urk (inhabited) and Schokland (uninhabited) that became part of the mainland, and are now part of Flevoland. Johan de Witt was NOT a prime minister. He was raadspensionaris or grand pensionary, and unlike a prime minister he had no fellow ministers (this is why it is strange to call him a prime minister) and no head of state above him. Some spelling errors: Zwolle, Den Haag, Utrecht, Mondriaan, Oranjestad.
Not only that, but they started on Flevoland (the Overijssel part) not in the 50s, but in the 30s; the first part was finished in 1942... And if you call 's-Hertogenbosch that, then also call 's-Gravenhage that 😛
I agree with your points. Aside from the language bit. Sorry but I do not think people view the languages Limburgish and Low Saxon as anything seriously. It is a grade above a dialectical variety, but far from where Frisian stands.
@@lcjgoossens4488 Yes the Dutch and the Dutch government have stigmatised the now recognised regional languages for years, including Frisian. They are often hidden and people avoid speaking them around speakers of Standard Dutch. Even though many people (usually living in cities in the Randstad) don't know about them, they are in fact languages in every respect, acknowledged by linguists and by the present Dutch government. Speakers of Low Saxon (I don't know the situation of Limburgers exactly) have started to set up organisations in support of the different dialect of the Low Saxon language and I slowly see things change in my region, from my parents' generation being hit by the teacher for speaking Low Saxon to active support for the regional languages in school, and more and more speakers realizing their native language is something to be proud of.
@captainhook5410 Yes his comment is very degrading, but illustrates perfectly how Dutch people from the West view and treat their minorities. No wonder they voted for a countryside party en masse last elections.
I am half Dutch half Bahraini 🇳🇱🇧🇭 my father is Bahraini and my mom is Dutch my mom is from Zuid Holland South Holland and I visit the Netherlands every summer and Christmas to see my Opa and Grootmoeder
Interesting that you call your grandparents Opa and Grootmoeder instead of Opa and Oma, or Grootvader and Grootmoeder. Is there a story? Most people I know call they grandparents Opa and Oma, as the longer words feel more oldfashioned
@@robotictitanmenas5914 waarom zou er iets mis mee zijn haha, gewoon benieuwd. Juist omdat je een bijzondere afkomst hebt vroeg ik me af of er een verhaal was. ik ben zelf half fins btw
1st level administration of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are the 4 Constitute countries of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands. While the Constitute country of the Netherlands has 12 2nd level administrations called provinces and 3 municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
Nice informative video! Another quirky artist from Noord Brabant is Jheronimus Bosch, famous for his depictions of heaven, world and hell. His hometown has the St. Janskathedraal (Saint John's Cathedral) with an abundant amount of sculpture from which he got a lot of inspiration. This province also has the largest National Park (nature reserve) 'Loonse en Drunense Duinen / de Brand', with inland dunes, forests, agricultural landscapes and moorlands. And of course the fairy tale amusement park 'De Efteling', one of the best in the world.
Although the names are boring, you should do the regions of Chile. From top to bottom Chile has one of the most contrasting and beautiful landscapes there is
Hey Paul I hope you'll see this comment. I am French and I'd really like to see you do a video about French overseas territories. I have already seen you do a video covering all British overseas territories and in this video you did the Dutch overseas territories. I know you already did a video covering French regions and municipalities but that video only covered a few overseas territories and not all of them. So I was hoping you could do a video about all of them?
Watched this video a week before I traveled to the Netherlands, and now rewatching for the first time after coming back home. I went to Amsterdam (of course) and Groningen, but also traveled through Rotterdam, The Hague, Zwolle, and Flevoland. Such a beautiful country with very friendly and fun people. Much love from the USA!
1:03 Great overview but there's one important omission here. European Netherlands also has water councils (waterschappen in Dutch) that govern all bodies of water within their territory. This is a system of governing bodies completely independent of the provinces. Their borders also don't line up with the provincial borders. Water councils are one of the oldest governing bodies. Dutch people also vote for the water boards usually at the same time as the provincial boards. In The Netherlands even water policies are chosen democratically which has very strong historical reasons. This means that The Netherlands has 4 levels of governance: municipality, province, water council and the national government.
Nice consise summaries, well done. Liked that you also memtiomed the diving spots. Geography is not only about above water. Mentioning zeeland, probably mention the delta works?
Damnit, I hoped you would acknowledge the 2nd largest city of Limburg, Venlo. I'm a long time subscriber and am a member of the municipality council of Venlo at 28 y.o.
Calling Assen just a racetrack is a bit of a understatement lmao Its like one of the crown jewels of Motorbike GPs together with Mugello and probably Phillip Island.
Fryslân boppe!! Friesland at some point also had a Viking king. Also always love the story about Grutte Pier. A Frisian independence fighter who was freakishly tall for his time and had a HUGE sword 😂 you can see that sword still in the Frisian museum in Ljouwert
Friesian is one of the official regional languages in the European part of the Netherlands. The other two are Limburgish and Low Saxon. There are also regional languages in the American part of the Netherlands: Papiamento and English. And there are the two official recognised non-regional minority languages: Yiddish and Sinti-Romanesh.
The fact that he pretty much overlooked the fact that people from Limburg talked with a soft G instead of a hard G and also has it’s own dialect that people from Germany can understand Also Heerlen could be accounted as one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands depending on the criteria (its the city where I live) given that it also stems from the Roman Empire days It’s almost sad
I wouldn't call Limburgs a dialect, as it's an officially recognised language in the Netherlands. When they speak Dutch, they have an accent (and a soft G indeed), and when they speak Limburgs, they are almost completely unintelligible to Dutch-speakers from the West of the country.
Up to 1962, West Papua is the last remnants of the Dutch East Indies, if Indonesia didn't press their claim on it, Netherlands could be called as Asian countries, or it could similar situation like Denmark and Greenland
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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!
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Daniel give me coffee
Netherlands fake it is north Flanders
Can you have a video which explain the provinces of Indonesia please 🙏🏼
Thank you.
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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.
Yeah, from what I've heard the Dutch and Canadians have quite the bromance going on, since the Canadian military actually played the biggest role in the liberation of the Netherlands.
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@@andyjay729 I believe we (Dutch) still send Canada thousands of tulips every year to thank them for their role in liberating us!
Dang, imagine living there, just seeing a One eyes Canadian walking down the street.
As a Dutch person, this is what i've dreamt of for many years.
Thanks Paul and the team
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!
❤ vanuit Nederland
curacao and aruba are huge in baseball, they pretty much carry the kingdom of the netherlands team in the baseball world cup
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.
BELGIË 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
And there was once the idea to name the province of Antwerp 'Middle Brabant'
@@japieb Antwerp is also Brabant. Despite not being named as such.
@@lcjgoossens4488 yup
All named after the Duchy of Brabant from the Middle Ages. That clears things up really quickly.
So cool to do this with you man! Can't wait to see you again and to create more awesome content!
2:58 fun fact: my name is frisian too! Even though I'm not from Friesland either.
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.
I've heard Flushing comes from Vlissingen.
And to keep going with Zeeland, the Roosevelt family is originally from this province. The capital Middelburg is also the host to University College Roosevelt, a vibrant UC paying tribute to the Roosevelts.
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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
These islands are basically the only reason that the Netherlands does relatively well in baseball😂
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. 🇲🇾🧡🇳🇱
Provinces of Indonesia might be need a lot of minutes to cover
Mexico -> done.😅
I second the motion of the last one. I wanna see jokes about monterrey being the alabama of mexico. (cousin intermingle)
@@Quark0611 No he haven't.
China and Greece would be awesome, both extremely diverse in their regions :)
9:44 the name what he probably wanted to hear is "Hollandse Nieuwe". This is what we call the haring when it's catched during a certain time of the year.
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
were happy to have you too bro
Zelfs voordat ik de video heb bekeken, dankjewel.
Niet alleen voor de video's over het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden maar ook zeker voor alle andere video's. Openheid van "zaken" helpt de wereld en de ontwikkeling daarvan.
Nogmaals, Dankjewel Barb.
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)!!!
Interesting, this explains the "Bolo preto" :D
So you visited the ABC and SSS islands, but have you been to the TVTAS islands as well?
@@dutchman7623 only texel
@@BAn-hy3ts Rustig aan Geertje.
@dylMpikl6 een klomp op je achterhoofd, als je met je bovenkaak op de stoeprand ligt 😂
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.
Love how you call it a "fun" fact xD
I feel like the whole world loves The Netherlands. I for sure do. Greetings from Spain.
Because we give love back! From a tall dutchie 🇳🇱😂❤️
Just adding some background.
The Spanish king, which he worked for was Charles V, who reigned over large portions of Europe. He traveled and visited most of his lands and was respected and a decent leader. The Netherlands were also part of the Holy Roman Empire. Charles successor, King Philip II kinda changed the deal with the Netherlands and forced catholicism and higher taxes on our country.
Therefore that sentence was mentioned, we used to be a fairly happy part of the Empire...we respected Spanish leadership, but the oppression since Philip II made us declare independence.
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.
There is a small part of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, NY that was the town of New Utrecht. There’s a Dutch Reform Church that pre-dates the American Revolution, and a Mile Stone (replica) that explains the old make up of Dutch Brooklyn. My old High School is even New Utrecht High School (the outside was used as the location establishing shot for the TV series “Welcome Back Kotter”).
thats so cool. never imagined there would be a new utrecht high school😂
Learned something new about my country today !
Thanks for the vid Barbs & Auke
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!
Gonna take long due to it's many departments
quick corrections:
5:25, Vaalserberg, not Vaaserberg (thanks Roger!)
8:22, Zwolle, not Zwole
8:56, Utrecht, not Utrect
9:23, Piet Mondriaan, not Mondrian (thanks thef1chesser!)
11:49, Oranjestad, not Oranjastad
5:25 , Vaalserberg, not Vaaserberg
Piet Mondriaan, not Mondrian
also: van Gogh, not ven Go
Small thing but in the UK, Scotland, England and Wales are called constituent countries and depending on who you ask Northern Ireland is aswell.
I love these more in depth videos about country subdivisions.
I’m from Assen I know some fun facts about the northern provinces:
Friesland and Groningen have a big rivalry with eachother
It’s a common joke to say no one lives in Drenthe
The people from Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe are often very antagonistic towards city people, but If you’re not being too insensitive no one will mind.
As someone who also lives in Drenthe it seems like half the population here is Frisian
Fryslân boppe en de rest mast dea skoppe! (Especially Groningers)
Drenthe must be like Acre in Brazil, no one has actually met anyone from Acre
Where Frisians live was way bigger, stretching from north Holland province all the way to Hamburg, but since it never had a kingdom, most Frisians were assimilated into Dutch and Germans by the Dutch and Germans and for the Dutch and Germans
Heujjjj, kom ook uit Assen 💪🏻
One of my best friends is half-dutch and half-dominican. Her and her family are just awesome. I have also met many people from The Netherlands and I am doing businesses in Curaçao so, I can definitely say that most people under the Kingdom of The Netherlands are some of the friendliest and lovely people I have ever met in the world.
Much love from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 ❤
I love the filler videos cool having a Dutch person explain some of the culture surrounding their provinces.
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'.
There are more things about Brabant than just "Molly".
Fun fact about Belgium we had 9 provinces. So they build the atomium with 9 spheres but then they separated Brabant in between Flemish and Walloon so now we have 10 prov.
Barbs talking about places I live nearby or visit very regularly made my day. Especially some of the pronunciations 😎 Thanks for that Barbs 👋🏽🇳🇱
Fantastic content as always.
I love The Netherlands.
Keep it up.
Started watching Geography now years ago and never could I have guessed my hometown of Nijmegen would ever be featured, love to see it. Keep up the good work 👌
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.
Im from Arnhem - the capital of Gelderland - also known as "A bridge too far" city!
Lovely seeing this episode
Indeed.
>Arnhem 1x kort genoemd als provinciehoofdstad
>Nijmegen volwaardig aan bod gekomen en meerdere keren genoemd als oudste stad van NL
classic Nimma W 😎
This was a great listen while on my daily walk. I learned so much and now want to visit the Netherlands :)
Always great to see more videos of my country :)
Glad to see you talk about the Caribbean Regions this time, unlike in the France Episode.
My colleague from St. Martin is still salty about that.
Still love the show though haha
Guadeloupe and Martinique: Are we jokes to you?
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.
Since 1995 the Belgian Brabant is split into Vlaams-Brabant and Waals-Brabant. Or in English: Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.
Dutch Limburg is East-Limburg, not North Limburg.
It always feels so amazing when such a big RUclipsr makes a video about your country ❤️
Thanks for this video, I'm a Czech but I was born in Limburg, In Landgraaf. I don't remember my life there but It's always been my dream to go back. Great video!
I lived in Maastricht some time and have been to Landgraaf. It’s worth a visit.
woww thats such a random but cool thing. youre always welcome in the netherands
@@jdj8168really random and really cool!!
I love this little crazy country, near whose border I grew up. 😍 The Low German from my home region has many Dutch loan words, the landscape is the same, we also call our land gains "polder", visiting Groningen is huge fun every time and Amsterdam also offers a lot to marvel at outside of the tourist crowds (I think the drive to Amsterdam over the Afsluitdijk alone is great) 🤩
The Enschede fireworks disaster was wild. I was born and raised in that city. At the time, I was still in high school.
There were two massive explosions, a few minutes apart. We felt the first one, but it was a slight tremor. I asked my mom if she felt it too. As we were talking, the second major explosion occurred and it felt like a mini earthquake.
The thing is, we were about 5km (~3 miles) from where it happened. Pretty far all things considered. I thought maybe the nearby gas station had exploded. We looked to the north and saw this MASSIVE black smoke cloud and turned on the TV, realizing it was so much worse than we thought. Apparently it was visible from dozens of kilometers away. It wasn't long before all the information came in. The area it happened in was close to our childhood home, near downtown.
The district has since been built up again and it's one of the fancier neighborhoods in my city these days, but holy crap, that was insane. The whole district was cordoned off for a very long time. It was just GONE. More than 1200 people lost their homes. About as many were injured. And a few dozen people lost their lives. Definitely one of the darkest days in my city's history.
Saturday 13 may 2000, a day to remember...
I experienced it as a little kid but still remember the day because of how bad it was. Black day in the history of Enschede & the Netherlands.
Fun video; it really helps people to get a bit of a better idea of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. The photo you have at 3:22 is from the West Friese markt in Schagen by the way: it's found in the region West-Friesland, which is found in the province of Noord- Holland but not Friesland (though there is a lot of shared history, but today it's in Noord- Holland). We have tons of regional identities and cultures in the country, I identify as a Westfries for instance.
Probably comes from the common confusion as what is known in the Netherlands as Frisian is internationally recognized as West Frisian (East and North Frisian being in Germany/Denmark). So someone might google west frisian market thinking it is in Friesland, just a hunch
West-Friesland genoemd 🔥🔥🔥
Gelderland is also home Duivelsberg, a village/hill that the Netherlands annexed from Germany after WW2(they originally had more but returned almost all the land in the 60s)
een heuvel is een dorp?
12:19 "that's an interesting name for a capital"
laugh in Cockburn town
The first recorded military fort was also named after Zeeland, Fort Zeelandia, AKA Anping Fort.
There is a third city in the Netherlands that claims to be the oldest, Voorburg, then called Forum Hadriani, started as a Roman outpost aswell and grew to be an economical centre during its time
Denmark next? I would really like to see a video about their territories. (Especially the Faroe Islands).
im from gelderland and i havent looked at my own province this way yet. wildcard is pretty much a good way to describe the province. and for some extra information we are proud of being the province with wildlife (:
As someone who has lived in Noord Brabant and Utrecht, and now lives in the south of Gelderland I can only say it feels like a different coutry all together. The road quality is piss poor and trips usually take twice as long. Maintainence of city properties like city hall, parks, schools and even the ditches along the roads etc are Eastern European like. To a point where stadiums collapse, fixing roads will take multiple years and travelling by bus or train gets increasingly more difficult and the weeds are so high you are unable to see whats going on on the opposite direction. Oh and in Nijmegen we throw our trash on the street like New Yorkers, not in dumpsters or underground like the rest if the Netherlands. So the city is littered with trash.
I feel like tourists go to Amsterdam/Holland. And Dutch people go to Gelderland when they go on holiday.
(Ok, Dutch people go outside the Netherlands as well, but you get my point.)
@@DutchDesireszo slecht is ‘t hier toch nie?
Instantly knew there would be a Atlasova colab when I saw the title 😁
😉
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.)
sounth soudan is from 2011, so younger
@@Rein_ Heh, I guess I'm older than South Sudan too then. Nice!😀
@@Rein_ He didnt say youngest
@@Rein_ he said “one of the youngest” not the youngest
@dpassch7 Oh my god, I have never ever Ever spoken to an Aruban.
Nice to meet you sir/mam/ non gendered being!
A small correction, the Veluwe nature reserve is actually way bigger than national park de Hoge Veluwe of which you showed a map so technically it isn't a correct map, but further a great video
As a German living in Limburg I found a typo Barbs it's Vaalserberg you missed the L. Also it is know as Drielanden punt 3 countries point where The Netherlands Belgium and Germany meet.
Wow, this was absolutely fascinating!
How the heck did YT not notify me of this. Fantastic episode as usual
The special municipality is a EU OCT, the same status as the Caribbean Countries. So this means that despite being fully under the control of the Hague, they have a completely separate legislation, taxation system, healthcare system, etc, than that of the European Netherlands. In essence they act as a separate country, with different rights, despite being fully under the control of the Hague.
A notable difference is the complete absence of the "general equal treatment law" (algemene wet gelijke behandeling), since it was never introduced into the municipality. Despite it being promised by the Hague since 2010.
This is in contrast to for example the French Caribbean islands who are EU OR's. These are integral parts of France, with the same laws and rights.
The current status of the special municipality, was not what they originally chose. And they have been protesting and voting against it in referendums for more than a decade now. It was supposed to be temporary phase while transitioning to OR status, but the Hague made it clear that wouldn't happen soon after the formation of the municipality.
I’ve been diving at Statia AND Saba, AND visited St. Martin! Sailed between them all and it was amazing.
8:22 it's Zwolle in stead of Zwole, and 8:59 it's Utrecht in stead of Utrect ;). Great video though!!
Being from Curaçao, I hope you one day decide to do dedicated episodes to the Caribbean islands that aren't independent countries.
I totally do not have an ulterior motive or anything.
You should definitely do one on Sweden!!
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.
I’m from Curaçao. It’s so nice that you’re mentioning Curaçao as its always overlooked alongside Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius
love Curacao, such a vibrant and beautiful place , the pig beaches are adorable asl
Great video about our country! Thank you for that! 😁🇳🇱
Proud to be an Arnhemmer (From Arnhem) with family from Groningen and Enschede
Great work as always Barbs
Keep up the great work
South Holland also has the oldest University in The Netherlands, in the city of Leiden (founded in 1575).
Nice video! You mentioned Frisians speaking their own language, but you forgot to mention the other officially recognised languages of the Netherlands. In the provinces of Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland and also southern Friesland, Low Saxon is spoken, and in Limburg, Limburgs is spoken (a tonal language!). Besides, on the ABC islands, Papiamentu is an official language, and on the SSS islands it is English.
Some mistakes: Flevoland is NOT 100% made of polders. There were two small islands, Urk (inhabited) and Schokland (uninhabited) that became part of the mainland, and are now part of Flevoland.
Johan de Witt was NOT a prime minister. He was raadspensionaris or grand pensionary, and unlike a prime minister he had no fellow ministers (this is why it is strange to call him a prime minister) and no head of state above him.
Some spelling errors: Zwolle, Den Haag, Utrecht, Mondriaan, Oranjestad.
Not only that, but they started on Flevoland (the Overijssel part) not in the 50s, but in the 30s; the first part was finished in 1942...
And if you call 's-Hertogenbosch that, then also call 's-Gravenhage that 😛
I agree with your points. Aside from the language bit. Sorry but I do not think people view the languages Limburgish and Low Saxon as anything seriously. It is a grade above a dialectical variety, but far from where Frisian stands.
@@lcjgoossens4488 Yes the Dutch and the Dutch government have stigmatised the now recognised regional languages for years, including Frisian. They are often hidden and people avoid speaking them around speakers of Standard Dutch. Even though many people (usually living in cities in the Randstad) don't know about them, they are in fact languages in every respect, acknowledged by linguists and by the present Dutch government. Speakers of Low Saxon (I don't know the situation of Limburgers exactly) have started to set up organisations in support of the different dialect of the Low Saxon language and I slowly see things change in my region, from my parents' generation being hit by the teacher for speaking Low Saxon to active support for the regional languages in school, and more and more speakers realizing their native language is something to be proud of.
@captainhook5410 Yes his comment is very degrading, but illustrates perfectly how Dutch people from the West view and treat their minorities. No wonder they voted for a countryside party en masse last elections.
Nedersaksisch is inderdaad erkend als taal. Maar is de facto een dialectcontinuüm van niet-gestandaardiseerde dialecten. Het is een ratjetoe.
I am half Dutch half Bahraini 🇳🇱🇧🇭 my father is Bahraini and my mom is Dutch my mom is from Zuid Holland South Holland and I visit the Netherlands every summer and Christmas to see my Opa and Grootmoeder
thats so cool actually. youre always welcome❤
@@jdj8168 thx
Interesting that you call your grandparents Opa and Grootmoeder instead of Opa and Oma, or Grootvader and Grootmoeder.
Is there a story? Most people I know call they grandparents Opa and Oma, as the longer words feel more oldfashioned
@@coloripple wat is daar mis mee plus ik ben amper opgegroeid in nederland ik woon in bahrein maar ga naar nederland om mijn familie te zien
@@robotictitanmenas5914 waarom zou er iets mis mee zijn haha, gewoon benieuwd. Juist omdat je een bijzondere afkomst hebt vroeg ik me af of er een verhaal was. ik ben zelf half fins btw
As a Frisian myself I can confirm, I do indeed look like Doutzen
1st level administration of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are the 4 Constitute countries of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands. While the Constitute country of the Netherlands has 12 2nd level administrations called provinces and 3 municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
Can you do the administrative subdivisions of Nauru, San Marino, Andorra, and Monaco? It be interesting to see what you come up with. :)
Nice informative video!
Another quirky artist from Noord Brabant is Jheronimus Bosch, famous for his depictions of heaven, world and hell. His hometown has the St. Janskathedraal (Saint John's Cathedral) with an abundant amount of sculpture from which he got a lot of inspiration.
This province also has the largest National Park (nature reserve) 'Loonse en Drunense Duinen / de Brand', with inland dunes, forests, agricultural landscapes and moorlands.
And of course the fairy tale amusement park 'De Efteling', one of the best in the world.
The whole Holland Netherlands thing is like England UK
My mom lived in Utrecht for 11 years. I’ve been there a few times and it’s a very beautiful city 🌆
The conclusion of the Netherlands episode was the best of all, but now got a second one. 😆
My great-grandfather was called Auke. He was renamed "Arthur" when he left Friesland.
Finally my home town gets mentioned(Almere) feels really special,though I was born in Limburg near the German border.
Really cool and interesting video to watch! :)
Although the names are boring, you should do the regions of Chile. From top to bottom Chile has one of the most contrasting and beautiful landscapes there is
Hey Paul I hope you'll see this comment. I am French and I'd really like to see you do a video about French overseas territories. I have already seen you do a video covering all British overseas territories and in this video you did the Dutch overseas territories. I know you already did a video covering French regions and municipalities but that video only covered a few overseas territories and not all of them. So I was hoping you could do a video about all of them?
Saint Martin is basically Belgium, speaks French and Dutch in one place😂😂
Although in this case Dutch is in the south and French in the north, so basically Belgium turned upside down. 😉
Watched this video a week before I traveled to the Netherlands, and now rewatching for the first time after coming back home. I went to Amsterdam (of course) and Groningen, but also traveled through Rotterdam, The Hague, Zwolle, and Flevoland. Such a beautiful country with very friendly and fun people. Much love from the USA!
I’ve seen atlasova a lot, didn’t know that he was behind it!
I am
8:43 me being from Enschede and living in that new neighbourhood
I actually just got into the Netherlands today, staying in North Brabant
The best province. 😉
Try some bossche bollen! :)
1:03 Great overview but there's one important omission here. European Netherlands also has water councils (waterschappen in Dutch) that govern all bodies of water within their territory. This is a system of governing bodies completely independent of the provinces. Their borders also don't line up with the provincial borders. Water councils are one of the oldest governing bodies. Dutch people also vote for the water boards usually at the same time as the provincial boards. In The Netherlands even water policies are chosen democratically which has very strong historical reasons. This means that The Netherlands has 4 levels of governance: municipality, province, water council and the national government.
Nice consise summaries, well done. Liked that you also memtiomed the diving spots. Geography is not only about above water. Mentioning zeeland, probably mention the delta works?
Just subscribed to Atlasova!
Thanks!
Awh yes very nice! Loved this episode lol
Damnit, I hoped you would acknowledge the 2nd largest city of Limburg, Venlo. I'm a long time subscriber and am a member of the municipality council of Venlo at 28 y.o.
tja alles is een beetje rushed
Calling Assen just a racetrack is a bit of a understatement lmao
Its like one of the crown jewels of Motorbike GPs together with Mugello and probably Phillip Island.
Fryslân boppe!! Friesland at some point also had a Viking king. Also always love the story about Grutte Pier. A Frisian independence fighter who was freakishly tall for his time and had a HUGE sword 😂 you can see that sword still in the Frisian museum in Ljouwert
Can’t remember exactly, but at the moment they think Frisians were vikings.
Friesian is one of the official regional languages in the European part of the Netherlands. The other two are Limburgish and Low Saxon. There are also regional languages in the American part of the Netherlands: Papiamento and English. And there are the two official recognised non-regional minority languages: Yiddish and Sinti-Romanesh.
I was born in Curaçao, I live now in mainland Netherlands
Yes I love these breakdowns!
The fact that he pretty much overlooked the fact that people from Limburg talked with a soft G instead of a hard G and also has it’s own dialect that people from
Germany can understand
Also Heerlen could be accounted as one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands depending on the criteria (its the city
where I live) given that it also stems from the Roman Empire days
It’s almost sad
I wouldn't call Limburgs a dialect, as it's an officially recognised language in the Netherlands. When they speak Dutch, they have an accent (and a soft G indeed), and when they speak Limburgs, they are almost completely unintelligible to Dutch-speakers from the West of the country.
@@hans7856 not just the West my friend like pretty much everywhere.
Lmao if I start talking Gronings there is no way other Dutch people will have any idea what I’m saying
@@SixJayy same as Plat
His own dialect (almost certainly) has a soft g as well, since he is from Noord-Brabant.
I lol'd at "It's not even a whole island, but it's a whole country." Oh Sint Maarten
Up to 1962, West Papua is the last remnants of the Dutch East Indies, if Indonesia didn't press their claim on it, Netherlands could be called as Asian countries, or it could similar situation like Denmark and Greenland
Great episode! Greetings from the Netherlands
Do Mexico states next
Yessssss I would love that
Please
Yoooooooooooooooooooooooo, I'm Mexican
10 dollars
damn not even a please. just straight up ordering him around like a dog
I'm actually doing a report on the Netherlands rn, this helps
How about all provinces of Indonesia, explained in details?