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The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov · Compared with the world

Netherlands

The zeitgeist this week

What stands out in Netherlands’ attention is Football (6.3%, 2.9× the world). The news sounds brighter than usual.

Netherlands’ zeitgeist, by theme

Its Wikipedia reading this week, each page counted once, in its main theme · Select a theme to see what’s inside it · How it’s counted

Blind spots

Where attention and coverage don’t line up

  • Covered more than readCars and getting around0.1×
Reading and news · 3.1m · Solid

Netherlands · The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov

Seen from inside and outside

How the world sees this country this week: the news abroad, pictures and videos.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands, commonly known simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state. The realm is a unitary monarchy with its largest subdivision, the eponymous Netherlands, predominantly located in Northwestern Europe and with three smaller island territories located in the Caribbean. The four subdivisions of the Kingdom—Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten—are constituent countries (landen in Dutch; sing.

From Wikipedia: Kingdom of the Netherlands · CC BY-SA 4.0

Pictures

  • Historic Area of Willemstad, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997
    Historic Area of Willemstad, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997Jim Williams · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
  • King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, the reigning monarch of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and his wife Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (2013)
    King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, the reigning monarch of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and his wife Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (2013)Koos Breukel · CC0

Photos from Wikipedia’s articles, on Wikimedia Commons

Netherlands · The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov

Who’s in the news

The people and organizations named in the most news stories about this place this week.

People

  1. Donald Trump

    210 stories

  2. Vladimir Putin

    88 stories

  3. Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Max Verstappen

    80 stories

  4. Lewis Hamilton

    72 stories

  5. Aston Villa

    56 stories

  6. Charles Leclerc

    41 stories

  7. Yu Chu Chin, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Kimi Antonelli

    37 stories

  8. Lando Norris

    36 stories

  9. Tatjana Smith

    New

    34 stories

Organizations

  1. European Union

    147 stories

  2. Red Bull

    62 stories

  3. United Nations

    48 stories

  4. Nations League

    4.8× last week

    43 stories

  5. The New York Times Company, Public domain

    New York Times

    40 stories

  6. Supreme Court

    29 stories

Names found in the news by the GDELT Project

Netherlands · The week of 30 Oct to 5 Nov

On social media

Social →

The TikTok videos, Instagram posts and YouTube videos the most-liked Bluesky posts in Dutch shared this week.

Shared from Instagram

  1. we are in an ai graphic design epidemic

    matt bernstein

    Shared in 2 posts · 12 likes and reposts

  2. Dear community, We’d like to share something with you. Recently, an incident took place during a queer writing workshop by Lesbische Leescl...

    Translated from Dutch

    Lesbische Leesclub 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    Shared in 1 post · 7 likes and reposts

Shared from YouTube

  1. Floor Jansen - The Ghost of the Minority | Even Tot Hier | Season 16

    Translated from Dutch

    Even Tot Hier

    Shared in 5 posts · 994 likes and reposts

  2. LIVE: Press conference by Prime Minister Jetten after the cabinet meeting of October 30, 2026

    Translated from Dutch

    Minister-president Rob Jetten

    Shared in 2 posts · 195 likes and reposts

  3. Jetten on Markuszower's remarks: 'Completely inappropriate for a politician to condone violence' | RTL News

    Translated from Dutch

    RTL Nieuws

    Shared in 1 post · 190 likes and reposts

  4. Tim Snyder: America Has Chosen to Self-Destruct - And Russia’s Real Problem Is Just Beginning

    Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl

    Shared in 1 post · 173 likes and reposts

  5. The government still doesn't have a majority for its tax plan! | LUBACH

    Translated from Dutch

    LUBACH

    Shared in 1 post · 164 likes and reposts

  6. A deal with Russia? Mart de Kruif warns: ‘It’s just like 1938’

    Translated from Dutch

    WNL

    Shared in 1 post · 142 likes and reposts

  7. A special documentary about our Alyona and Zhenya

    Translated from Dutch

    Franky And Coen into the breach

    Shared in 1 post · 133 likes and reposts

  8. Matthew Cole - “Princes and Thieves” | The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

    Shared in 1 post · 121 likes and reposts

  9. Chris Pappas thanks husband after historic Senate victory

    USA TODAY

    Shared in 1 post · 105 likes and reposts

  10. Why Putin won't stop

    Translated from German

    ZIB erklärt

    Shared in 4 posts · 104 likes and reposts

  11. Minister Sjoerdsma transfers 500 million to save trees!

    Translated from Dutch

    PowNews

    Shared in 1 post · 100 likes and reposts

Each plays here in its platform’s own player, loaded only when you press play; the platform’s terms apply. Counts: Bluesky’s public search (the likes and reposts of the posts that shared each one)

Netherlands

Discussion

Netherlands · The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov

Startups people read about

Backed by Y Combinator, a16z, Sequoia and other well-known investors · by Wikipedia views this week

  1. Facebook

    Big Tech and platforms · founded 2004 · 3,450 page views

    Backed by Founders Fund

  2. Anthropic

    Startups and building things · founded 2021 · 818 page views

    Backed by Spark Capital

  3. HaeB, CC BY-SA 4.0

    OpenAI

    Startups and building things · founded 2015 · 473 page views

    Backed by a16z, Sequoia +2

  4. Palantir

    Big Tech and platforms · founded 2003 · 70 page views

    Backed by Founders Fund

Backers according to Wikidata

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