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National Geographic : 1950 Dec
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DENMARK \snds a F isp Balt, No r t . <,st Norderne Sea b Borku orden NETHE1A tDSJ ' isIands ca ( Rottummeroog Sc a Schiermonnikoog ENG AND *Amsterdam \ S eland- D Emden Lo don Terschelling B' du e Delfz 1-4' M e Vi jeland e Ltw 9ro FRANCE f LAND 3 'Paris D d Meer S ,e.. oo n DenHelder erenveen Assen I uleed 66+ STATUTEMILES S+ 2 *6D RENTE / ermeer 62 ENTE oler e Noord ost Emmen, T iEP IJse L Dt od .eoon Schoonebeek NOR HOLLAND Mee-r f o ilfiel AlNnT R. (ard zee) Stahorst . N ET ]p^RAN N Sp Volenda Kat?1 Zwo e U Haarl -0 m sterdam Vi R v ISEL Zandvoor _, o Almelo Hille arden Deventer Hengel |o Voorhout 4e um. i 1 \^ o ^ 1 Lei eBr *.Soestdijk edo Enschede Scheveningen o4f U ECHT Amersfoort 's Gravenhag s t ect L, (The Hague;) L ATO Coesfeld WESTLAND -7 eden oesfe Goere I inderd W '* egen Bocholt Dordrec 433+ ewet verfla e 'ertoenbosch Wese Walther en -O RTH BRAB NT y Wa\che reV" R Breda *Tilburg Gelsenkirchen Middc-lbur r \ "Roosendaarl, b "Vi '* .gf -- " , A AarleRixtel Helmond Oberhausen (Flus Eindhovn , Duisbur en Turnhout. ele Di e i"eDi sseld W4 Brugge nchen Soligen 23+ St.Nika, Antwerpen +98 Gladbach4 Gent sc * Mechelen +148 + 282 B E L G I U M+13 1 Peie rrade Hee el S, I terr-ade (Cologne Bruxellesi Leuvn 3 Maastric Margt ie O.Diren (Brussels) Tienen ahen a Bonn +443 STATUTEMILES L 'I 752 1)rawn by Thlodora P. Thompson More than Half the Netherlands' Ten Million People Live Below Sea Level Here the Rhine, lost in its mucky delta, divides into several diked arms. Zuider Zee, prominent salt-water landmark on older maps, has gone to make new land. Its place is taken by IJsel Meer, a smaller, fresh-water lake, dike-protected from the sea. Holland, the kingdom's popular name, properly applies only to North and South Holland, two of 11 Provinces. Shaded area of the map indicates below-sea -level portion of the Netherlands.
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