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Rijksmuseum, Amstel, Van Gogh Museum and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Netherlands and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
National museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The national museum of the Netherlands, devoted to Dutch art and history, on the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, near the Royal Concertgebouw, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Van Gogh Museum.
Photo: Marco Almbauer, CC BY-SA 3.0
River in North Holland, the Netherlands
A river in the Dutch province of North Holland. It flows north from the Drecht and Aarkanaal at Nieuwveen, past Uithoorn, Amstelveen and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, to the IJ in Amsterdam, a city named after it.
Photo: Debot at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
National art museum in the Netherlands
A Dutch art museum devoted to Vincent van Gogh and the artists of his time, on the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, near the Concertgebouw, the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum. It opened on 2 June 1973, in buildings designed by Kisho Kurokawa and Gerrit Rietveld.
Photo: Warrox, CC BY 2.5
Flower garden in the Netherlands
Also called the Garden of Europe, one of the world's biggest flower gardens, in Lisse municipality, the Netherlands. Its official website gives the park an area of 32 hectares, with approximately 7 million flower bulbs planted every year.
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0
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International law administrative building in The Hague, Netherlands
Home to both the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA): a building in The Hague, Netherlands, that serves as an international seat of justice.
Photo: Thomas Wolf , www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
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House in Utrecht, Netherlands
Designed and built in 1924 by Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch architect, as a home in Utrecht for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder and her three children.
Photo: User:Husky, CC BY 3.0
Chain of islands off the north coast of the Netherlands
A chain of islands in the North Sea off the north coast of the Netherlands, along the Wadden Sea's edge, part of the Frisian Islands; further east they continue as Germany's East Frisian Islands.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Dam in Netherlands
A major Dutch dam and causeway, built from 1927 to 1932, running 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Den Oever, in North Holland, to Zurich village, in Friesland, 90 metres (300 ft) wide. Its original height above Amsterdam Ordnance Datum ranged from 6.7 metres (22 ft), on the Friesland stretch, to 7.4 metres (24 ft), where it crosses the Vlieter's deep channel.
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0
Seaport in the Netherlands
Europe's biggest seaport, and the world's biggest outside Asia, in and around Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. By annual cargo tonnage it was the busiest port on Earth from 1962 until 2004.
Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam…, Public domain
Informally called Holland, a Northwestern European country with overseas territories in the Caribbean, and the largest of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' four constituent countries. It is made up of twelve provinces and three special municipalities overseas.
Officially The Kingdom of the Netherlands. Known locally as Netherlands, Kingdom of the.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Rijksmuseum, Amstel, Van Gogh Museum and Keukenhof and others. Rietveld Schröder House is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Netherlands that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Rietveld Schröder House. That is not the full count for Netherlands, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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