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Kongeriket Nederlandene
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Norwegian Bokmål
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thumb|The European and Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
thumb|The waterfront of Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao.
thumb|The landscape of Aruba viewed from the Ayo Rock Formations.
Etymology
From nb kongerike Kongeriket the kingdom and nb Nederlandene the Low Countries, translating Dutch nl Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Parallel formations include nn Kongeriket Nederlanda, da Kongeriget Nederlandene, de Königreich der Niederlande and en Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Pronunciation
nb /²ˈkɔŋː.əˌriː.kə ²ˈneː.dərˌlanː.ən.ə/ [ˈkɔ̂ŋː.əˌɾiː.kə̌ ˈnêː.də.ˌɭanː.ən.ə̌]
nb anːənə 9
nb Kon ge ri ket Ne der lan de ne
Proper noun
nb proper noun Kongeriket Nederlandene
Kingdom of the Netherlands; nb country, comprising the constituent countries Nederland in Europe and Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.
nb Aruba er et av fire land i Kongeriket Nederlandene. Aruba is one of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
nb 25 June 2026 Kåre Langvik-Johannessen Anja Heie Nederland Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Nederland Nederland er en del av Kongeriket Nederlandene (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). The Netherlands is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). https://web.archive.org/web/20260831232009/https://snl.no/Nederland 31 August 2026
Usage notes
The official Norwegian name standardized by Språkrådet and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is Kongeriket Nederland (“the Kingdom of the Netherlands”). The form Kongeriket Nederlandene is nevertheless well established in Norwegian and is used by Store norske leksikon.
The kingdom comprises four constituent countries: Nederland, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. It should not be confused with the constituent country nb Nederland the Netherlands alone.
Related terms
nb Nederland the Netherlands
nb Nederlandene the Low Countries
nb Karibisk Nederland Caribbean Netherlands
See also
References
“Navn på stater” at Språkrådet.
“Land Norge har diplomatiske forbindelser med”, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Nederland” in Store norske leksikon.