How big is the Netherlands? Which province in China is it equivalent to?

The Netherlands has a total land area of ??41,864 square kilometers, which is equivalent to China’s Sichuan Province. Sichuan Province is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and has an area of ??486,000 square kilometers.

Sichuan, abbreviated as Chuan or Shu, the provincial capital Chengdu, is located in the southwest of inland China, bordering Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai to the north, Yunnan and Guizhou to the south, Chongqing to the east, and Tibet to the west.

Sichuan is an important economic, cultural, industrial, agricultural, military, and tourism province in China. It has economic development highlands such as the China (Sichuan) Free Trade Pilot Zone and Tianfu New Area.

It is a distribution center for materials in western China, a part of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the hometown of the national treasure giant panda, and the origin of Wuliangye and Jiannanchun among China's three famous liquors "Mao Wu Jian". It is the headquarters of the Western Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Sichuan Province has a total area of ??486,000 square kilometers and governs 18 prefecture-level cities and 3 autonomous prefectures, including 54 municipal districts, 17 county-level cities, 108 counties, and 4 autonomous counties. As of 2017 At the end of the year, the permanent population was 83.02 million.

Sichuan has the second largest Tibetan area, the largest Yi inhabited area and the only Qiang inhabited area in the country. Sichuan's landforms are mainly mountainous, with four landform types: mountains, hills, plains and plateaus. It is an important intersection and transportation corridor that connects South and Central China, connects the southwest and northwest, and connects Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

The distance between the farthest ends of the Netherlands in the north and south is about 300 kilometers, and the distance between the farthest ends in the east and west is about 200 kilometers, with a total area of ??41,864 square kilometers. There are more than 1,800 kilometers of dams and embankments along the coast, and the coastline is 1,075 kilometers long.

Since the 13th century, Japan has reclaimed more than 7,100 square kilometers of land, equivalent to one-fifth of the land area of ??the Netherlands. Today, 18% of the Netherlands' land is artificially reclaimed.

Extended information:

1. Population density of the Netherlands:

The Netherlands is one of the countries with the highest population density in the world, with a population density of more than 407.5 people/person. square kilometers.

According to 2013 statistics, the total population of the Netherlands is 16,803,700, mainly distributed in large and medium-sized cities and surrounding areas.

The 10 most populous cities in the Netherlands and their population numbers are: Amsterdam 790,100, Rotterdam 616,300, The Hague 502,100, Utrecht 316,300, and Eindhoven 217,200 There are 207,600 people in Tilburg, 193,200 people in Almere, 193,100 people in Groningen, 176,400 people in Breda, and 165,200 people in Nijmegen.

According to statistics from the Dutch Immigration Service, the total Chinese population in the Netherlands was approximately 120,000 in 2012, accounting for approximately 0.7 of the total population of the Netherlands. There is no large-scale concentration of Chinese in the Netherlands, and Chinese people live in most cities in the Netherlands.

2. Sichuan population:

According to the 2017 National Population Change Sample Survey data, the number of births in the year was 930,000, with a birth rate of 11.26‰; the number of deaths was 580,000, The population mortality rate is 7.03‰; the natural population growth rate is 4.23‰.

The permanent population at the end of the year was 83.02 million, an increase of 400,000 over the end of the previous year, of which 42.17 million were urban residents and 40.85 million were rural residents. The urbanization rate of permanent residents was 50.79, an increase of 1.58 percentage points from the end of the previous year.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Sichuan

Baidu Encyclopedia - Netherlands