Outline of the Netherlands

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Netherlands.

Netherlands – parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy.

Its European mainland is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.

The European Netherlands constitutes the vast majority (by land area and population) of both the country and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as such 'the Netherlands' in common parlance often implicitly refers to this entity.

Similarly, the articles linked to below predominantly consider the European Netherlands.