It is land-strapped at 33,690 sq km with about 480 people covering one sq km of low-lying land.
Despite being small and overcrowded, the Netherlands has become the world's second biggest food exporter, after the United States which is 270 times larger. More than half of the country's land area is used for high-intensity agriculture.
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