Netherlands
in Western Europe
Europe
Belgium
Germany
Country Quickfacts
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- Dutch, Western Frisian
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: C, F)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- ISO 2-Letter code:
- NL
- Internet top level domain:
- .nl
- Country phone prefix:
- +31
- Local Time (capital):
- Timezone:
- UTC/GMT offset: hours
Map of Dutch Unesco Heritage Sites
Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about Netherlands in Europe. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is Schokland and Surroundings. On the list since 1995. The youngest site is Van Nellefabriek. On the list since 2014.
| Name | Since |
|---|---|
| Defence Line of Amsterdam Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th c... |
1996 |
| Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder) The Beemster Polder, dating from the early 17th century, is is an exceptional example of reclaimed land in the Netherlands. It has preserved intact its well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals,... |
1999 |
| Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 1634. The town developed continuously over the following centuries. The ... |
1997 |
| Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station) The Wouda Pumping Station at Lemmer in the province of Friesland opened in 1920. It is the largest steam-pumping station ever built and is still in operation. It represents the high point of the contr... |
1998 |
| Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of handling water is admirably demonstrated by the installations in the Kinderdijk-Elshout area. Construction of hy... |
1997 |
| Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House) The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was commissioned by Ms Truus Schröder-Schräder, designed by the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, and built in 1924. This small family house, with its interio... |
2000 |
| Schokland and Surroundings Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, it had to be evacuated in 1859. But following the draining of the Zuider Zee... |
1995 |
| Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new ‘port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canal... |
2010 |
| Van Nellefabriek Van Nellefabriek was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial zone north-west of Rotterdam. The site is one of the icons of 20th-century industrial arch... |
2014 |