General Information
The Netherlands
Travel easily!
The total area of the Netherlands is 41,543 sq km, that is 10,000 sq Km smaller than Costa Rica and about 16 times smaller than the size of Texas, which means travelling around the Netherlands and to other countries is very easy!
From Rotterdam you can travel to:
- Amsterdam: 40 mins by train
- The Hague: 25 mins by train
- Brussels: 2 hrs by train
- Paris: 3 hrs by train
- Berlin: 8 hrs by train
Highest English-proficiency in the world Narrowly beating Denmark and Sweden, according to the English Proficiency Index (EPI). Some nine in 10 Dutch people speak English as a second language. According to the latest EU language report (2012), 94 per cent of Dutch people could speak two languages, well above the EU average of 54 per cent. Considering more than half of the population also speak German, many must speak at least three languages.
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport offers more direct flights than any airport in the world In 2016, Schiphol operated 4,633 flights per week, according to a report by Dutch economic institute SEO on behalf of the Airport Council International. Schiphol is 100 per cent government-owned and handles around 60 million passengers per year.
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