The LETSaholic Twist
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The Netherlands (Holland)

National name:
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

Sovereign:
Queen Beatrix (1980)

Premier:
Jan Peter Balkenende (July 2002) ... "Harry Potter look-alike". :-)

Area:
16,036 sq mi
(41,532 sq km)

Population (mid-2005 est.): 16,407,491
(average annual rate of natural increase: 0.3%);
birth rate: 11.9/1000;
infant mortality rate: 4.4/1000;
density per sq mi: 997

Capital and largest city (1994 est.):
Amsterdam (official), 724,096;
The Hague (administrative capital), 445,279

Other large cities (1994 est.):
Rotterdam, 598,521;
Utrecht, 234,106;
Eindhoven, 196,130

Monetary units:
Guilder and euro

Language:
Dutch,
Frisian

Ethnicity/race:
Dutch 96%,
Moroccans, Turks, and other 4% (1988)

Religions:
Roman Catholic 34%,
Protestant 25%,
Muslim 3%,
other 2%,
unaffiliated 36%

Literacy rate:
99% (1979)

Background:
The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I but suffered a brutal invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EC, and participated in the introduction of the euro in 1999.

Coastline:
451 km

Geography - note: located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde)

For the Netherlands, you can find a list of LETS groups at
web: http://members.home.nl/letsdb/kaart.htm

Amsterdam Stichting Noppes
M.v.bouwdijk-Bastiaansestraat 60, 1054 SP Amsterdam
Monique de Boer
E-mail: info@noppes.nl
web: http://www.noppes.nl
Tel: 020-4288080

Here is the last update of (a time-Eurosystem) DIENSTENRUILCENTRALE
Over&Weer
Office address: Cliffordstraat 36, 1051GV Amsterdam, Netherlands
phone: 020-6380492 or 020-7775010
email: info@samendoen.nl.org
office hours: Tuesday till Thursday afternoon, from 12-16 hrs.
Social meetings every month on Sundays.
We have twp versions of a new website now:
http://www.samendoen.org
(The experimental version is still in use : http://members.lycos.nl/owsd)
Greetings from the officeteam: Jan, Lenie, Mike, Nienke, Gottfried

Het Sterrenstelsel
(which translated in your language means something like starsystem, but there is probably a better word for it which I cannot find in my dictionary but you are getting the picture I suppose.)
(the LETSystem of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Bonairedreef 6, 3562 SJ Utrecht
Ph: (0)30-2252776
e-mail: sterrenstof@sterrenstelsel.nl (editors)
web: www.sterrenstelsel.nl
We 'pay' each other in sterren, (i.e. stars).
Our magazine is called Sterrenstof, (i.e. stardust).

LETS-ruilwinkels Rotterdam, info:
SVR
Sportlaan 75
3078 WR Rotterdam
tel: 010 - 292 36 66
Website: http://www.lets-rotterdam.nl
e-mail: info@lets-rotterdam.nl

LETS Meppel
(Meppel, Drenthe, the Netherlands)
Anita
email: anitakn@hetnet.nl
Riouwstraat 27, 7942 VV Meppel

Lets Nijmegen en omgeving
email: info@letsnijmegen.nl
web: http://www.letsnijmegen.nl
Wim Beermanstraat 19, 6523 RC Nijmegen
Phone: 0031-(0)620121691

Lokale Ruilkring 's-Hertogenbosch
('s-Hertogenbosch)
email: letsdb@home.nl
web : http://members.home.nl/letsdb

Ruilkring Delft
(Delft)
email: lets@emourik.mbit.nl
web: http://www.ruilkringdelft.org/
Tel: (+31) 15 - 2618212

Ruilkring Enschede
e-mail: info@ruilkringenschede.nl
web: www.ruilkringenschede.nl

Strohalm
email: links@strohalm.nl
web: http://www.strohalm.nl

The Hague LETS
(The Hague)
Pascal Degen
web: http://www.denhaag.org/~lets

... OTHER LINKS ...

More information
about Lets in the Netherlands:
Edwin Stomphorst
e-mail: stompedwin@zonnet.nl