And about that stunning looking aquaduct: Veluwemeer Aqueduct is a 25-metre (82 ft) long, 19 meter wide, navigable aqueduct (also known as a water bridge) located over Veluwemeer lake in Harderwijk, Netherlands. It was opened in 2002 and bypasses the N302 road. Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veluwemeer_Aqueduct
Having spent the weekend not very for from Rotterdam: it doesn’t feel like a giant city. There’s farmland, canals, the seaside… It’s a very strange video.
Interesting observation. It’s because everything beyond the Randstad is definately not like a big city, as this video seems to claim. It’s mainly farmland with lots of small villages and some medium sized cities, called ‘the province’ by people from ‘the Randstad’ (actually the 9, of 12, remaining provinces). The province south of Rotterdam is called Zeeland and is actually the least populated province in the country. But even the Randstad has it’s semi rural areas called ‘the green heart’. If you draw a circle between Rotterdam, the Hague, Amsterdam and Utrecht it’s situated in the middle and consists of farmland, villages and small towns (protected by law). So the Netherlands is actually ‘Randstad’ (45% of population) and ‘province’ (55%), but with a lot more space. And even our big cities are nothing like metropoles at all, Rotterdam maybe the closest to one.
@@carolinavanderlande4904I live in the Lisbon metropolitan area (and I'm from the Netherlands, non-Randstad [Ede]), and the metropolitan area has Dutch style rural areas. The netherlands doesn't have Portuguese style rural areas. I recently explained to someone that the Netherlands is completely like Greater Lisbon. When you go outside of the Lisbon area, you get nowhere useful in the same day except as a destination where you will need a place to stay. You can do things on the other side of the Netherlands and come back home the same day. And Portugal is not a very big country. It does however has a huge rural area. I think Portugal could feasibly be made much more like the Netherlands as a country, but it really doesn't work like that how it is.
Yeah, it's only that way in the mid-west, the randstad.. like they show in the video on the map. The east, north and south is almost empty in comparison to the Randstad.
6:13 that’s the Europoort area. Part of the Rotterdam harbor. The Europoort area is very heavily industrialised with petrochemical refineries and storage tanks, bulk iron ore and coal handling as well as container and new motor vehicle terminals.
Fun facts: The Netherlands has 428 people per km2. The 170M of Bangladesh have 1 305 people per km2 of land. The population of Egypt (110M) lives on 3.5% of its land. That is 3 130 people per km2.
80% of the Dutch communication includes phrases and sayings. From the one hundred sentences, eighty are sayings. "If if comes, is having too late" Is one of them... 😉
That Urk and Buruk bit went on for far too long, jesus christ xD My brain was absolutely fried from the baby grammar combined with the very serious voice halfway through xD
My favourite fact about Holland is that Holland has 16% of the area of the Netherlands, 37% of the population of the Netherlands, and it was in 1637 that the Amsterdam tulip bubble happened.
Read Goethe's 'Faust' some day. He makes the point that only those living on the edge and struggle for survival every day are worthy of what they have. (China's leader Xi Jinping is said to know this work by heart) As for the Netherlands in the 21th century; the continuous struggle against water once did create a society where everything was based on consensus out of necessity - you can't just dump all that excess water in your neighbor's garden to get rid of it, so you have to figure out a solution that works for everyone. Unfortunately that positive trait of Dutch society is rapidly disappearing after decades of dog-eat-dog neo-liberalism and European integration where top down decisions are being made without any feedback.
The situation of the Netherlands was brought home to me by something that happened many years ago before the age of SatNav, etc. A Dutch referee came over to the UK to officiate a game with me. I picked him up from the nearby airport and we drove North about 2.5 - 3 hours to the game location. He helped navigate and when we were nearly there, he said "You know, we couldn't do this back home". I replied "What do you mean?". He answered " If we drove this far in a straight line in the Netherlands, we wouldn't be in the Netherlands anymore..."
Connor, I know that you like math/maths so to roughly work out kilometres to miles I subtract a third. So 30 kilometers is 20 miles. The exact answer is 18.6 miles but it gives you a rough idea. For miles to kilometres, just add a half so 35 miles is roughly 52.5 km.The exact answer is 56.3 km but it gives you an approximate distance. I'm sure that there are other ways but that's what I do to work it out. Finally you said about your birthday the other week and so if it's already happened, I hope that you had a good one. If it's about to hapen, I hope that you have a good one!
Hey great video! Nice to see you dive in the Netherlands and your reaction to it. In addition to that, I think you would truly enjoy a performance of one of the greatest singers we have in the Netherlands; Davina Michelle - The power of water. It wil give you another (visual) take on all of this. One hell of a performance with a bigger message, sure you will enjoy. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Holland 🇾🇪
1 meters is about 1 foot step. So 100 meters, 100 foot steps. And we're talking wandering foot steps, not putting one foot after the other, then you'd have feet I guess. I have heard that 100 feet is roughly 30 meters.
Hi Conner, humans are herd 'animals'. Therefore more relatives/friends make us happy. Grieve when losing a relative/herd member is the opposite emotion of happy in this situation. Did you know that modern sport with many spectators is a cultivated form of 2 herds fighting each other.
My idea for The Netherlands is to import a lot of dirt from other countries that they don't need and make mountains, so it isn't so damn flat everywhere anymore and we can finally get rid of those annoying bikes.
Ha. Your 'grieve gene' theory is worthy of consideration, good man. Interesting. Also, the 'problem solving mind set' is only part of the equation. None of the (literal) construction of the country would have been possible without dedicated collaboration and endless, endless, endless deliberation. These two principles are deeply engraved in Dutch culture. In fact a word was created to describe the latter (that never ceasing deliberation), the verb 'polderen', after the noun 'polder', which is what we call the low lying areas reclaimed from the water that are protected by dikes. 'Polderen' has a slightly negative connotation because it's exhausting at times, but in the end it works for us as a nation.
This comparison makes perfectly clear why it is crazy to make EU standards for stuff like pollution in whatever kind of way and than use it to compare one country to another country. It becomes a very random unfair comparison. NL is very polluted if you compare it with Germany, because of the over 8 mln people in the Randstad. But in some way that’s like comparing the pollution in the Dutch province of Groningen with the pollution in the German Ruhr area. In that comparison the German contestant will win (e.g. lose) the pollution contest…. So what does NL now do to try and match the EU standards? 😢 We try to pollute less in the province of Groningen so we can keep building houses in Randstad to make it more densely populated (and more polluted) than it already is. I think it is save to say that De Randstad is full and (because the rest of NL doesn’t want to become a Randstad😅) The Netherlands is full.
He makes valid points, but only for understanding what corrective course changes to make, although I hear an undertone of.. excuses. You can say most of the country is more like one of your cities that it differs much less from than from the rest of your country and while that's true it begs the question if perhaps that's the only city you got things right in. When he says it's important to remember the advantage of population density we have, one should also note than in a place like the USA the conscious decision is made not to have that. If you want to provide quality stuff you need to move people in closer together which can be done regardless of how much dead space it would leave in between. That doesn't mean no one can own a rural farm out in no man's land; I'm just talking on average. It is no surprise then that statistically in the modern age all across the world we are growing more toward concentrated hubs where people live. Quite frankly the reason our infrastructure is so much better is not because this is some kind of naturally occurring advantage, but because we chose to not force everyone into cars and adopt laws that mandate the existence of 8 parking spots per car across most of a continent, all of which forces buildings apart and infrastructure to become stretched out.
Rotterdam has the biggest harbor/port of Europe. Urk was a former island in the Zuiderzee, now IJselmeer. The Netherlands is one giant river delta of the rivers Maas/Meuse, Rijn/Rhine and Schelde. I worked several decades in the Randstad but never wanted to live there. Too busy, too many people.
Km (KiloMeter), I got a easy trick to estimate: Kilo-meter means kilo = 1000 and meter we keep as meter one meter is about 1.1 yard (1.09361) but we just want a rough estimate mostly so i use ****** 1 meter is roughly 1 yard ******** do not use it if you need to know the distance just to get an idea of distance so 1 km is about 1000 yard your system is so hard, everything with us is meters, so do not ask me about inches, feet or miles. Ok, i will add feet.... mili-meter (0.001 meter) is about 0.003 feet (0.00328 feet) (0.00109 yard) centi-meter (0.01 meter) is about 0.03 feet (0.0328 feet) (0.0109 yard) deci-meter (0.1 meter) is about 0.3 feet (0.328 feet) (0.109 yard) meter (1 meter) is about 3 feet (3.28 feet) (1.09 yard) deca-meter (10 meter) is about 30 feet (32.8 feet) (10.9 yard) hetca-meter (100 meter) is about 300 feet (328 feet) (109 yard) kilo-meter (1000 meter) is about 3000 feet (3280 feet) (1090 yard) btw. 1 kilometer is 0.621371 miles Writing this makes me realize again how insane your system is, please stop using it
It's simply not true. If you take the train from Utrecht to Amsterdam, you'll see lots of farmland, industrial buildings, and even a few small towns in between. If The Netherlands was a giant city that farmland would be parks and you wouldn't see seperate small towns. And if you find yourself in Flevoland, at night, you may be forgiven for thinking you're on a recently terra formed other planet. There's nothing but farmland there, with a few highways and one or two cities. I noticed this myself when I was a student and we were traveling back by bus from the Aalsmeer Studios. In the nightly dark, apart from the highway lights, I could only see a few faint lights here and there in the distance but for the remainder it was all dark.
Zoals ik in een eerder commentaar aangegeven heb, dat klopt maar het is nog steeds bijna niks vergeleken met plattelandsgebieden in andere landen. Ik woon hier in Portugal en deze stijl boerenland etc is wat je in het hoofdstedelijk gebied tegenkomt (ik woon zuid van de rivier in het Setúbal-gebied.). Een groot deel van het land is enorme stukken bijna niks, met hier en daar een huisje en een klein dorpje. Het is wel zo dat er meer platteland in Nederland is dan in een doorsnee stad, maar er zijn hier zelfs in het hoofdstedelijk gebied stukken die meer natuur hebben dan het Nederlandse platteland. Beja is iets meer dan 1 100 km^2 groot en bijna alleen maar natuur, met grootste steden Beja en Évora, waar Beja iets meer dan 30 000 inwoners heeft. Groningen als geheel is ongeveer 200 km^2 en heeft een drukke studentenstad in het midden. Binnen het hoofdstedelijk gebied van Lissabon heeft het Arrábida-park, dat geen inwoners heeft, alleen al 72.2 km^2 oppervlakte, en het Monsanto-park in het midden van de stad heeft al 900ha bij zichzelf.
How can u honestly not understand Kilometer? U look It up once ... I also had to check that 5 feet are around 3.5 meters 1 Km is 0.6miles. Not exactly but close enough
Strange this docu. I don’t really recognize my country. I live a 30 minutes drive above Amsterdam and we have very clean air. The Netherlands it’s not a very big city. It’s very diverse
To grief is in my view a realisation that something held dear, will never come back. It is a realisation of one's own mortality. As for this video, the concept of it is to me flawed. So, why not compare the Netherlands to the greater Detroit area, or Seattle area, or the state of New York? That would have been better. And sure it is flat and it has soft soil. But I think building here is as difficult as in Switzerland. And the Swiss don't have to battle the rivers and the sea every day of every year for like now a thousand years. Don't think building in the Netherlands is easy. It is not. Everything needs a foundation of poles. Roads need a foundation sometimes, and sometimes a dyke that has to settle for years before the road can be built. And even then, the water management in a large area around it can change and has to be compensated for.
Don't like this propaganda video at all. Size is not the difference between a city and a country. The Netherlands was already a country when the rest of Europe was still monarchies gaining and losing territory and it's people through marriage and inheretance. No, it's my country, not your city state, not your future city state, not your farmland to take.
omg.. American trying to grasp metric system. Maybe America should do what UK did, and have rulers in school that had 30 cm on one edge, and 12 inches on the other. 🤣
This video is weird. The Netherlands is not a big city, the Randstad is like a big city. Utrecht? Students maybe and most central city in the Netherlands?
The biggest fail of the video is that it doesn't cover why those same trends don't happen in likely sized (or even much larger) conurbations in the US. Somehow it misses to draw a core conclusion from the basic premise it proposes. There are some other big facts missing too, like some parts in the south of the Netherlands being near other population centers (Antwerp/Flemish diamond in general, and to the east the quite large Ruhr area. It seems to focus extremely on being a country, rather than economics or what is near. What is left is shameless Randstad self promotion
And about that stunning looking aquaduct: Veluwemeer Aqueduct is a 25-metre (82 ft) long, 19 meter wide, navigable aqueduct (also known as a water bridge) located over Veluwemeer lake in Harderwijk, Netherlands. It was opened in 2002 and bypasses the N302 road.
Read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veluwemeer_Aqueduct
Awesome video! I love hearing your theories about the world!
Having spent the weekend not very for from Rotterdam: it doesn’t feel like a giant city. There’s farmland, canals, the seaside… It’s a very strange video.
Interesting observation. It’s because everything beyond the Randstad is definately not like a big city, as this video seems to claim. It’s mainly farmland with lots of small villages and some medium sized cities, called ‘the province’ by people from ‘the Randstad’ (actually the 9, of 12, remaining provinces). The province south of Rotterdam is called Zeeland and is actually the least populated province in the country. But even the Randstad has it’s semi rural areas called ‘the green heart’. If you draw a circle between Rotterdam, the Hague, Amsterdam and Utrecht it’s situated in the middle and consists of farmland, villages and small towns (protected by law).
So the Netherlands is actually ‘Randstad’ (45% of population) and ‘province’ (55%), but with a lot more space. And even our big cities are nothing like metropoles at all, Rotterdam maybe the closest to one.
I agree
@@carolinavanderlande4904I live in the Lisbon metropolitan area (and I'm from the Netherlands, non-Randstad [Ede]), and the metropolitan area has Dutch style rural areas. The netherlands doesn't have Portuguese style rural areas. I recently explained to someone that the Netherlands is completely like Greater Lisbon. When you go outside of the Lisbon area, you get nowhere useful in the same day except as a destination where you will need a place to stay. You can do things on the other side of the Netherlands and come back home the same day. And Portugal is not a very big country. It does however has a huge rural area. I think Portugal could feasibly be made much more like the Netherlands as a country, but it really doesn't work like that how it is.
Yeah, it's only that way in the mid-west, the randstad.. like they show in the video on the map. The east, north and south is almost empty in comparison to the Randstad.
Awesome video! Loved the brain wave moments. And I guess you might be right actually!
6:13 that’s the Europoort area. Part of the Rotterdam harbor. The Europoort area is very heavily industrialised with petrochemical refineries and storage tanks, bulk iron ore and coal handling as well as container and new motor vehicle terminals.
If the Netherlands had the same population density as Bangladesh, it would have a population of 52 million
Fun facts: The Netherlands has 428 people per km2.
The 170M of Bangladesh have 1 305 people per km2 of land.
The population of Egypt (110M) lives on 3.5% of its land. That is 3 130 people per km2.
80% of the Dutch communication includes phrases and sayings.
From the one hundred sentences, eighty are sayings.
"If if comes, is having too late"
Is one of them...
😉
Your initial reaction to kill everyone in Urk land made me splurt out my tea !
3:18 Hi, the Randstad is made up from (the busiest parts) of the provinces North Holland, South Holland, Utrecht and Flevoland.
That Urk and Buruk bit went on for far too long, jesus christ xD My brain was absolutely fried from the baby grammar combined with the very serious voice halfway through xD
My favourite fact about Holland is that Holland has 16% of the area of the Netherlands, 37% of the population of the Netherlands, and it was in 1637 that the Amsterdam tulip bubble happened.
A kilometre is five eighths of a mile
Or, a kilometer is 1000 meters.
A meter is a yard (+ 10%)
Meh, I can't work with fantasy measurements 😂
"Urk kill everyone" is about the most American knee-jerk thought... And you said out loud!
You'd be right if you went with ten Canadian football fields since they use Metres but hey, close enough lol.
I thought it was a bloke on a bike who screamed at you ‘‘this isn't Disney Land’’.... story seems to change over the years.
5:07 no, you don’t need to shut up. When you interrupt and speak, it shows you’re thinking and learning and understanding.
Absolutely - just hit the pause button so you don’t talk over something that may pertain to your idea. 🙂
7:38 aquaduct 😊
Read Goethe's 'Faust' some day. He makes the point that only those living on the edge and struggle for survival every day are worthy of what they have. (China's leader Xi Jinping is said to know this work by heart)
As for the Netherlands in the 21th century; the continuous struggle against water once did create a society where everything was based on consensus out of necessity - you can't just dump all that excess water in your neighbor's garden to get rid of it, so you have to figure out a solution that works for everyone.
Unfortunately that positive trait of Dutch society is rapidly disappearing after decades of dog-eat-dog neo-liberalism and European integration where top down decisions are being made without any feedback.
The situation of the Netherlands was brought home to me by something that happened many years ago before the age of SatNav, etc. A Dutch referee came over to the UK to officiate a game with me. I picked him up from the nearby airport and we drove North about 2.5 - 3 hours to the game location. He helped navigate and when we were nearly there, he said "You know, we couldn't do this back home". I replied "What do you mean?". He answered " If we drove this far in a straight line in the Netherlands, we wouldn't be in the Netherlands anymore..."
If i drove north for 3 hours I would be in Groningen in the very north of the Netherlands. I live near the border with belgium
@@Lunaviia Heh Heh, yeah the traffic congestion has gotten so much worse here in the UK, if I drove for 3 hours I'd probably still be in London 😆
7:37 just a priceless reaction
Connor, I know that you like math/maths so to roughly work out kilometres to miles I subtract a third. So 30 kilometers is 20 miles. The exact answer is 18.6 miles but it gives you a rough idea.
For miles to kilometres, just add a half so 35 miles is roughly 52.5 km.The exact answer is 56.3 km but it gives you an approximate distance. I'm sure that there are other ways but that's what I do to work it out.
Finally you said about your birthday the other week and so if it's already happened, I hope that you had a good one. If it's about to hapen, I hope that you have a good one!
1 mile is about 1.8 km.
we do have hydroelectric machines in the delta works,giant turbines spinning with the tides
Hey great video! Nice to see you dive in the Netherlands and your reaction to it. In addition to that, I think you would truly enjoy a performance of one of the greatest singers we have in the Netherlands; Davina Michelle - The power of water. It wil give you another (visual) take on all of this. One hell of a performance with a bigger message, sure you will enjoy. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Holland 🇾🇪
14:32 creative from learning the hard way
The entire world uses kilometres: learn.
1 meters is about 1 foot step. So 100 meters, 100 foot steps.
And we're talking wandering foot steps, not putting one foot after the other, then you'd have feet I guess.
I have heard that 100 feet is roughly 30 meters.
Hi Conner, humans are herd 'animals'. Therefore more relatives/friends make us happy. Grieve when losing a relative/herd member is the opposite emotion of happy in this situation. Did you know that modern sport with many spectators is a cultivated form of 2 herds fighting each other.
You mean tribes, I think.
4:02 1 kilometre = 0.62 square miles
1 square mile = 2.5 square kilometres
Death is the loss off. You can miss a favourite toy a car a parent. Loss is for the attachment gained
To mother great, to unknown uncle less.
My idea for The Netherlands is to import a lot of dirt from other countries that they don't need and make mountains, so it isn't so damn flat everywhere anymore and we can finally get rid of those annoying bikes.
I guess we are less focused on being competitive and it's just all more of a team effort. 🤫
Ha. Your 'grieve gene' theory is worthy of consideration, good man. Interesting.
Also, the 'problem solving mind set' is only part of the equation.
None of the (literal) construction of the country would have been possible without dedicated collaboration
and endless, endless, endless deliberation. These two principles are deeply engraved in Dutch culture.
In fact a word was created to describe the latter (that never ceasing deliberation), the verb 'polderen',
after the noun 'polder', which is what we call the low lying areas reclaimed from the water that are protected by dikes.
'Polderen' has a slightly negative connotation because it's exhausting at times, but in the end it works for us as a nation.
This comparison makes perfectly clear why it is crazy to make EU standards for stuff like pollution in whatever kind of way and than use it to compare one country to another country. It becomes a very random unfair comparison. NL is very polluted if you compare it with Germany, because of the over 8 mln people in the Randstad. But in some way that’s like comparing the pollution in the Dutch province of Groningen with the pollution in the German Ruhr area. In that comparison the German contestant will win (e.g. lose) the pollution contest…. So what does NL now do to try and match the EU standards? 😢 We try to pollute less in the province of Groningen so we can keep building houses in Randstad to make it more densely populated (and more polluted) than it already is. I think it is save to say that De Randstad is full and (because the rest of NL doesn’t want to become a Randstad😅) The Netherlands is full.
He makes valid points, but only for understanding what corrective course changes to make, although I hear an undertone of.. excuses.
You can say most of the country is more like one of your cities that it differs much less from than from the rest of your country and while that's true it begs the question if perhaps that's the only city you got things right in.
When he says it's important to remember the advantage of population density we have, one should also note than in a place like the USA the conscious decision is made not to have that.
If you want to provide quality stuff you need to move people in closer together which can be done regardless of how much dead space it would leave in between. That doesn't mean no one can own a rural farm out in no man's land; I'm just talking on average.
It is no surprise then that statistically in the modern age all across the world we are growing more toward concentrated hubs where people live.
Quite frankly the reason our infrastructure is so much better is not because this is some kind of naturally occurring advantage, but because we chose to not force everyone into cars and adopt laws that mandate the existence of 8 parking spots per car across most of a continent, all of which forces buildings apart and infrastructure to become stretched out.
Rotterdam has the biggest harbor/port of Europe.
Urk was a former island in the Zuiderzee, now IJselmeer.
The Netherlands is one giant river delta of the rivers Maas/Meuse, Rijn/Rhine and Schelde.
I worked several decades in the Randstad but never wanted to live there. Too busy, too many people.
Km (KiloMeter), I got a easy trick to estimate:
Kilo-meter means kilo = 1000 and meter we keep as meter
one meter is about 1.1 yard (1.09361)
but we just want a rough estimate mostly so i use ****** 1 meter is roughly 1 yard ******** do not use it if you need to know the distance just to get an idea of distance
so 1 km is about 1000 yard
your system is so hard, everything with us is meters, so do not ask me about inches, feet or miles.
Ok, i will add feet....
mili-meter (0.001 meter) is about 0.003 feet (0.00328 feet) (0.00109 yard)
centi-meter (0.01 meter) is about 0.03 feet (0.0328 feet) (0.0109 yard)
deci-meter (0.1 meter) is about 0.3 feet (0.328 feet) (0.109 yard)
meter (1 meter) is about 3 feet (3.28 feet) (1.09 yard)
deca-meter (10 meter) is about 30 feet (32.8 feet) (10.9 yard)
hetca-meter (100 meter) is about 300 feet (328 feet) (109 yard)
kilo-meter (1000 meter) is about 3000 feet (3280 feet) (1090 yard)
btw. 1 kilometer is 0.621371 miles
Writing this makes me realize again how insane your system is, please stop using it
Just think of it as 2/3 of a mile it's close enough to image than 5/8
HEY CONNOR FIGURED OUT HUMAN EVOLUTION....lol
It's simply not true. If you take the train from Utrecht to Amsterdam, you'll see lots of farmland, industrial buildings, and even a few small towns in between. If The Netherlands was a giant city that farmland would be parks and you wouldn't see seperate small towns.
And if you find yourself in Flevoland, at night, you may be forgiven for thinking you're on a recently terra formed other planet.
There's nothing but farmland there, with a few highways and one or two cities.
I noticed this myself when I was a student and we were traveling back by bus from the Aalsmeer Studios.
In the nightly dark, apart from the highway lights, I could only see a few faint lights here and there in the distance but for the remainder it was all dark.
Zoals ik in een eerder commentaar aangegeven heb, dat klopt maar het is nog steeds bijna niks vergeleken met plattelandsgebieden in andere landen. Ik woon hier in Portugal en deze stijl boerenland etc is wat je in het hoofdstedelijk gebied tegenkomt (ik woon zuid van de rivier in het Setúbal-gebied.). Een groot deel van het land is enorme stukken bijna niks, met hier en daar een huisje en een klein dorpje. Het is wel zo dat er meer platteland in Nederland is dan in een doorsnee stad, maar er zijn hier zelfs in het hoofdstedelijk gebied stukken die meer natuur hebben dan het Nederlandse platteland. Beja is iets meer dan 1 100 km^2 groot en bijna alleen maar natuur, met grootste steden Beja en Évora, waar Beja iets meer dan 30 000 inwoners heeft. Groningen als geheel is ongeveer 200 km^2 en heeft een drukke studentenstad in het midden. Binnen het hoofdstedelijk gebied van Lissabon heeft het Arrábida-park, dat geen inwoners heeft, alleen al 72.2 km^2 oppervlakte, en het Monsanto-park in het midden van de stad heeft al 900ha bij zichzelf.
A kilogram is 2 ponds = 2 times 500 gram, not 2.2 ponds.
Have you never seen an aqueduct before?
How can u honestly not understand Kilometer? U look It up once ... I also had to check that 5 feet are around 3.5 meters
1 Km is 0.6miles. Not exactly but close enough
Strange this docu. I don’t really recognize my country. I live a 30 minutes drive above Amsterdam and we have very clean air. The Netherlands it’s not a very big city. It’s very diverse
To grief is in my view a realisation that something held dear, will never come back. It is a realisation of one's own mortality. As for this video, the concept of it is to me flawed. So, why not compare the Netherlands to the greater Detroit area, or Seattle area, or the state of New York? That would have been better. And sure it is flat and it has soft soil. But I think building here is as difficult as in Switzerland. And the Swiss don't have to battle the rivers and the sea every day of every year for like now a thousand years. Don't think building in the Netherlands is easy. It is not. Everything needs a foundation of poles. Roads need a foundation sometimes, and sometimes a dyke that has to settle for years before the road can be built. And even then, the water management in a large area around it can change and has to be compensated for.
1 mile = 1.5 km (so: 1 km = 0.75 miles - if my maths add up)
That would have been easy to remember, but unfortunately 1 mile = 1609.344 meters.
Also the rest of the country is about 70% farmland 😂😂
1 mile = around 1.6 km
1.6km to a mile.
Don't like this propaganda video at all. Size is not the difference between a city and a country. The Netherlands was already a country when the rest of Europe was still monarchies gaining and losing territory and it's people through marriage and inheretance. No, it's my country, not your city state, not your future city state, not your farmland to take.
Rotterdam is different from Amsterdam because Rotterdam got bommed on WWII
1KM=0.6MILES ROUGHLY
omg.. American trying to grasp metric system. Maybe America should do what UK did, and have rulers in school that had 30 cm on one edge, and 12 inches on the other. 🤣
Your clickbait is totally wrong. The Netherlands is 53 times bigger as New York.
This video is weird. The Netherlands is not a big city, the Randstad is like a big city. Utrecht? Students maybe and most central city in the Netherlands?
The biggest fail of the video is that it doesn't cover why those same trends don't happen in likely sized (or even much larger) conurbations in the US. Somehow it misses to draw a core conclusion from the basic premise it proposes. There are some other big facts missing too, like some parts in the south of the Netherlands being near other population centers (Antwerp/Flemish diamond in general, and to the east the quite large Ruhr area. It seems to focus extremely on being a country, rather than economics or what is near. What is left is shameless Randstad self promotion
stop thinking imperialistic , start thinking in adding zeros and dividing by 10
No its not one giant city
Nice story .Go back to .hhha
GERMAN WANNABEES
Nope. We like our neighbors, but we're fine just as we are.
No
Neatherland is NOT Holland go back to Disney Land