The Netherlands is notable in the modern European Union because of the significant legacy regarding access to the water as well as regarding the culture of land reclamation. While Amsterdam serves as the national capital, additional notable locations include Rotterdam and The Hague (Den Haag), as well as numerous smaller locations scattered throughout the nation. Regarding the smaller locations, Eindhoven and Maastricht are each located in the southeast, with Maastricht being the southernmost mid-sized national city in the Netherlands, at a latitude similar to Brussels further west and located within a province bordering the Walloon region of Belgium through Liège. Leiden is yet another locale identified within the Netherlands as a particularly formal location, largely because of the history of trade and access to the coast further south in the Netherlands.
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The Netherlands matches the flag colors of numerous other flags across the globe, using the colors red, white, and blue. These three colors are also pan-Slavic colors as seen on the Russian flag; however, the Dutch flag colors are in the order of red, white, and blue, from top to bottom. For Russia, the colors are white, blue, and red from top to bottom, and for numerous other countries, such as Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Czechia, and Slovakia, these three colors are at least the primary colors of the national identity. In each of the immediately aforementioned cases, red, white, and blue are representative of Slavic pride and identity.
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