the city. Holland is perhaps the most civilized and humane country in the world, its fifteen million inhabitants (most of whom speak English) living in a nation the size of Maine and a quarter the size of England. There's more diversity than you would perhaps expect, too, from the reclaimed polders of the North Sea to the hills of Limburg. The Rough Guide does justice to Dutch flavours, art, history and literature and gives you every practical assistance along the way.

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