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The Netherlands, also known as the “Low
Countries,†is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land
through which a few big important rivers fortunately run. In this
country, you can find coffee shops, wooden shoes, tulips, windmills
and a lot of water. And everything is rather small! Well, at least
most of the architecture is. How cute is that? But
it’s also the land that broug...
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