The Netherlands occupy a similarly strategic location, wedged in between Beigium and Germany, with access to France and Scandinavia and facing England across the North Sea, the world's busiest.
地圖上，從北歐斯堪地那維亞半島看下來；滑過冰島、丹麥、瑞典、挪威，就可找到荷蘭。它的東邊是西歐強國西德，南臨另一個「西歐小國」比利時，北邊隔著「世界上最忙碌的海洋」﹘﹘北海與英國相對。