What is the difference between Holland and the Netherlands?
 

Can someone explain the difference to me?

as far as I know, they are the same thing, so why two different names?

I think netherlands has lots of hotgirls and holland just has chocolate

Same thing, only different:Graucho

England, Great Britain, United Kingdom

yeah, not a perfect example but it's not bad :)

England and the UK are different things.

Holland is a provence...(State) in the Netherlands
We have 12 "States" North and South Holland are 2 of them.
Often Holland is being used because for some reason the Netherlands (which means The Lowlands) is too difficult.

Lowlands is because our country is below sea level....we have
"Dikes" to protect us from the Water.

DynaMite :thumbsup

In Spain they say Olanda, Holanda or Paisos Bajos

DynaMite

Same difference as the United States and America

you forgot to mention the woodenshoes :1orglaugh

Thanks Dynaspain i was thinking they both are same till now :winkwink:

holland is a city within the county of netherlands, arkansas, usa

- Holland is the Netherlands

- Then who are the Dutch?!?


---- Seinfeld

- and whats the deal with windmills?

Nice, we should all have Lesbians to protect us I think....:cool-as-a

Dutch are Nederlanders but since most can´t pronounce that
they have come up with Dutch...

And about the "Dikes" probably it´s spelled as Dykes...I dunno
there is this story that once a guy named "Hans" stuck his thumb
in a Dyke and save a whole city from drowning....:1orglaugh

There was a hole in the Dyke....which makes sense offcourse
....a really wet hole that was

DynaMite

Oh.....my real name is Hans :thumbsup

DynaMite

Which is pronounced Gans where you live now. Gans is Goose in English, so ppl call you Goose all day:tongue: :eek2

I still find that odd.

Isn't "AMERICA" the entire AMERICAN continent?

North and South America.

They'd scare anything away! :1orglaugh

Nope. Hence United State of "America"

Yes that is obvious.

But still there is no country named "America" nor is there a continent named "America". (Only South-America, Central-America and North-America).

"I am an European" indicates that you are from the continent "EUROPE".

Would someone from Brasil be able to call himself an American?

Oh well just wondering.