> I've never quite figured out how there can be that much difference  
> between what a country calls itself and what everyone else 
> calls it.   

For a start: should we call ourselves "Nederland" or "Holland"? If
"Nederland" (which is our official name), why blame the rest of the
world for remembering that it used to be '*de* verenigde nederlanden'
hence *the* netherlands (or, translated almost literally) "le Pay-Bas"?

As a child I used to be upset because one of our southern provinces is
called "*North* Brabant" (the souther part is in Flanders), and nobody
could explain me why there is a "Norwegen" buth no "Southwegen". The
world is so nicely inconsistent.

Wouter van Ooijen

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