Geography of Netherlands

PECHAKUCHA

G -INTRO

Hello every body, this is our presentation, we are Dídac and Genís, now we are going to talk about the geography of Netherlands, a small country, very similar to Catalonia talking about dimensions, but we are going to see that only showing the geography information of that country, we will know that both Countries are very different. We hope you will learn a lot from this presentation.

D -SITUATION IN EUROPE

The situation in Europe of the Netherlands it’ easy, no ?? Obviously the Netherlands is situated in the North of Europe between two big countries such as are  Belgium, Germany also it have a sea like the North sea

G -GEOGRAPHIC SITUATION I

The geography of the Netherlands is very unusual because the  25% of the land is below sea level, so protected by dikes, it helps to protect them of floots. thanks to this dikes, the 65 % of the netherlands is not below the wates

D -GEOGRAPHIC SITUATION II

Another factor that has influenced its physical appearance is that the country is among the most densely populated on Earth. Obviously the Netherlands is a small country with a lot of important cities

G -CLIMATE

The climate of the netherlands variates a lot, in each region the temperature is very different, because there’s a few barriers,(mountains), this country have a cold climate, doesn’t matter if is summer or winter, always will be cold. The netherlands is caracterized by his rains.   

D -POPULATION

The netherlands having a population over 16 million inhabitans. the netherlands it’s in hte top 30 of the 30 countries with more densley populated. Consequently, the Netherlands is highly urbanized. Most of these inhabitants are in the main cities of the country

G -AREA ( comparar amb catalunya...)

The Netherlands it’s a small country that only have 41,543 square kilometers but 7,650 square kilometers are water. if you want to compare: catalunya it’s 31,895 square kilometers that’s similar to the land that it have the Netherlands

D -TERRITORY DESTRIBUTION-

Netherlands is divided in 4 different regions and the names are in the north region  the east region, the south region and the west region, a important fact is that only one region i s under the sea level also in each region we have subregions like provincies and comarques in Catalonia

G -THE MOST IMPORTANT REGION

The most important region is the east one, most concretely the zones that are called the North Holland an the south holand because the capital of the Netherlands is situated there an also there are important cities like the Hauge

D -HIGEST POINT IN THE NETHERLANDS

the netherlands it’s a very flat country so the highest point that is vaalserberg or vaals hill is not a mountain is a hill that only has 322.7 meters. Lleida is near 200 meters  

G -LOWEST POINT IN THE NETHERLANDS

the lowest part is Zuidplaspolder, and it reach the deep of 7 meters, it means that is 7 meters under the sea level, an Important and interesant fact about i is that is near the coast and thanks to diques it doesn’t floot

D -MAIN CITIES

The netherlands it’s a country which there are different an important cities, so the main cities in the Netherlnds are Utrech, Rotterdam, Delft, Leien, the Hague and Amsterdam, now Genís is going on abut it .

G -AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam has a population of 847,176 within the city proper, 1,343,647 in the urban area,  and 2,431,000 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area.The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe

D-RANSTAD

The Randstad is a megalopolis in the central-western of the Netherlands consisting primarily of the four largest Dutch cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht) and their surrounding areas areas

G-BORDER COUNTRIES

There’s only two border countries and the North Sea, They are Germany and Belgium, both are lenguages speakes in the frontiers, and a very similar climate.

D-RIVERS

The netherlands it’s peculiar for their canals and rivers. normally we say that the most important river is the rihn but also there are 2 more important rivers in the Netherlands such as the Meuse and the waal that is an afluent of the Rihn

G-LAKES

In the netherlands there are 11 lakes, The 2 most important lakes are the lake eem and the lake Gooi,. both are very big, but in cities that are not as important as Amsterdam

D-THE NORTH SEA

The north sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The average temperature in summer is 17 °C (63 °F) and 6 °C (43 °F) in the winter. The salinity averages between 34 to 35 grams of salt per litre of water.

G-FLAG

The flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: Vlag van Nederland) It is the oldest tricolour flag still in national use, it also inspired the French and the Russian flag, and both flags had influenced many others countries from Europe and Africa, First of all the red part was orange, that’s why is the national colour.

D-LANGUAGE

The official national language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken by almost all people in the Netherlands. also, there is the frisian is a co-official language in the province of Friesland. Frisian is spoken by 453,000 speakers. Another important thing about amsterdam is that also recognises English as an official language

FOR AND AGAINST

Social networks

The social networks is a theme that create controversy in the families. But should fathers and mothers control his sons and daughters ‘social networks?

On the one hand, a social network isn’t 100% safe. Almost 25% of the  social network users are fake, this means that they are cyber predators, also some studies show that being On social networks can give you negative emotions.

But the opposite point of view is that teenagers need to know how to use social networks. Nowadays, all the business are picking up people that have ICT level for the releasing of new apps and virtual shops, also, the publicity in the net is important, and it’s necessary to control social networks.

Summarizing everything, I think that social networks have two different faces, the one that we know, and the darkest side, where people make the networks unsafe. But in my opinion, we should only use social networks with responsibility.