Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

In the Netherlands, the company TNO has designed Bioaerosol Single Particle Recognition eQuipment ( BiosparQ ).

The Netherlands has been most advanced in adopting a census using administrative data.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.

This optional protocol has been ratified by all EU states except five ( namely Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom ).

The Netherlands has hosted an annual domino toppling exhibition called Domino Day since 1986.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, where euthanasia has been legalized, it still remains homicide although it is not prosecuted and not punishable if the perpetrator ( the doctor ) meets certain legal exceptions.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

A 13 year long observation performed by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 120, 000 subjects between 55 and 70, has shown that increased intake of acrylamide ( formed when potatoes are baked or fried ) is correlated with a 60 % higher rate of kidney cancer.

In the Netherlands Fox News has been carried by cable providers UPC and CASEMA and satellite provider Canaldigitaal ; all have dropped the channel in recent years.

The phenomenon has spread to other European countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

The Netherlands has introduced a new system of health care insurance based on risk equalization through a risk equalization pool.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

The concentration of broadcasters in Hilversum has given it its enduring status as the media city for The Netherlands.

For example, a dedication has been found as far away as Woerden ( Netherlands ).

In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money — the three per cent collection from each store — does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said.

This has led to some national policies such as fuel and emission taxes for domestic air travel in the Netherlands and Norway, respectively.

The tour has also traveled to Australia several times, Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2009, Italy and The Netherlands.

Other commercial rappers are De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, and one of the more popular artists in the Netherlands, Partysquad or The Partysquad.

It is one of the busiest railways in Europe, with 20 % more train services than France, 60 % more than Italy, and more than Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined.

Also in the final chorus, referring to the son of a deceased Green Beret, they sing " Make him one of The Netherlands ' best ".

The Marching and Cycling Band HHK from Haarlem ( the Netherlands ) is one of the few marching bands around the world which also performs on bicycles.

Two congregations have joined one of the other smaller Reformed churches in the Netherlands.

The States-General of the Netherlands and the VOC pledged one million guilders in the form of capital and subsidy.

At the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to a large and one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk ( St. Lebuin's Church ), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life.

Flanders ( Dutch:, ) is one of the regions and communities of Belgium and also a historical geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

Given good circumstances one might be able to discern the result of some human activity such as the changing of the Netherlands ' coast or the partial drying out of the Aral Sea, but even that would not be easy.

His involvement in the Schröder House exerted a strong influence on Truus ' daughter, Han Schröder, who became one of the first female architects in the Netherlands.

On the one hand was Spain, its possessions in the Mediterranean and overseas, and the Habsburg possessions in the Netherlands ; on the other hand was the Holy Roman Empire itself.

After the Restoration, there was an overall reduction in the power of the crown, and by the 18th century England rivaled the Netherlands for being one of the freest countries in Europe.

As she was one of the wealthiest women in the Netherlands at the time, Bremmer recommended that she form an art collection.

As one of the first landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter.

In the Antillean island of Aruba in November 1995, she played in a friendly match against 26 year old, Jeroen Piket of the Netherlands, at the time one of the top players in Europe.

In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

* Limburg of the States ( 1633 – 1685 ), one of the Generality Lands, a dependent territory of the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Mali is among the ten poorest nations of the world, is one of the 37 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, and is a major recipient of foreign aid from many sources, including multilateral organizations ( most significantly the World Bank, African Development Bank, and Arab Funds ), and bilateral programs funded by the European Union, France, United States, Canada, Netherlands, and Germany.

It has been pointed out that the Netherlands, which had a Calvinist majority, industrialised much later in the 19th century than predominantly Catholic Belgium, which was one of the centres of the Industrial Revolution on the European mainland.

* 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.

The Netherlands has one of the most dense highway networks in the world.

The Dutch motorway network is one of the densest in the world, but many motorways are lacking sufficient capacity, and many bottlenecks of 4-lane motorways are present throughout the Netherlands.

One of the more controversial international issues surrounding the Netherlands is its liberal policy towards soft drugs and position of the Netherlands as one of the major exporters of hard drugs.