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Central Bureau of Statistics (http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/home/default.htm)
Statistics Netherlands is responsible for collecting, processing and publishing statistics to be used by policymakers and for scientific research.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). Country Profiles: Netherlands (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/europe/netherlands/)
From the "Most Popular Sections" at the top of the page, select Country Profiles and scroll down for an alphabetical list of countries. Prepared by FCO desk officers, the profile provides a general overview of the Netherlands and includes information on the country's recent history, recent political developments, relations with the international community, and bilateral political and commercial relations with the UK, as well as links to other relevant pages on the FCO site.

Governments on the WWW: Netherlands (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/nl.html)
Links to national, regional, and municipal institutions; representations in foreign countries; political parties, and more.

Open Directory Project. Regional: Europe: Netherlands (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Netherlands/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines.

De Telefoongids (http://www.detelefoongids.nl)
Online version of the Dutch national telephone directory, white and pink [yellow] pages, searchable.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: The Netherlands (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/nl.html)
General information and statistics about the Netherlands, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Department--Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.

U.S. Library of Congress. European Reading Room. The Dutch Collections at the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/coll/dutc.html)
Highlights of the Library's collections from and about the Netherlands and Flanders, including music, maps, prints, and rare books.

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