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Despite the flag being red, white and blue, orange is the national colour as the monarchy is from the House of Orange. Until becoming king, Willem-Alexander was prince of Orange. On the king's birthday – 27 April – Dutch people dress in orange and celebrate their country with outdoor parties, picnics and parades.

The Netherlands was a founding member of the EU. It was involved in the negotiations that eventually developed into the EU from the earliest days. The country is relatively pro-Europe and the euro replaced the guilder in 2002.

Both Nederlands (Dutch) and Fryslân (Frisian) are official languages in the Netherlands, although English is also spoken by the majority of the population. Estimates suggest that less than 400,000 people speak Frisian, so far more Dutch people speak English. Limburgish, Dutch Low Saxon and Gronings are also recognised minority languages.

Some 83 percent of the population live in urban areas but there are few high rises. The Netherlands has a lot of medium-density housing, apartments two to six floors high, and one of the highest rates of social housing in Europe.

The Netherlands is a largely secular country: up to 40 percent of Dutch say they have no religion, compared to 30 percent who are Catholic (the largest religious group) and 20 percent who are Protestant.
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The Dutch are the most physically active EU population: Fifty-two percent of the population participate in sport on a weekly basis, well above the European Union average of 38 percent. The Netherlands ranked the highest for monthly, weekly and daily recreational non-sports physical activities in 2013 in the EU at 89 percent, 83 percent and 43 percent respectively.

More than 40 percent of people in the Netherlands live in the Randstad area, a megalopolis in the central-western part of the country mostly consisting of the four largest cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht
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