Dutch is used as the adjective for the Netherlands, as well as the demonym.
The Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (Kingdom of the Netherlands) is made up of 4 countries: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands. The Netherlands includes 3 public bodies located in the Caribbean region: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
You're a Dane if you're from Denmark – and you speak Danish. You're Dutch if you come from The Netherlands, which is also sometimes (wrongly) called Holland.
'Duits' means German since the Germans call themselves 'Deutsche'. Around 1290 in the northern and eastern part of the Netherlands, the word was 'duutsc' and as the Frisian people (living in the North) spoke a language much more like English. The English adapted Dutch from Frisian Duutsc.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is made up of four countries: the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten.
The modern Dutch equivalent is Nederland, which means the same thing. The name has been around for a long time, but the region was not always officially called that. The region that currently encompasses both the Netherlands and Belgium — sometimes called the Low Countries — has changed hands many times.
The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces but many people use “Holland” when talking about the Netherlands. The two provinces of Noord- and Zuid-Holland together are Holland. The 12 provinces together are the Netherlands. Holland is often used when all of the Netherlands is meant.
Dutch is an official language in Belgium, but it's not spoken throughout the whole country. Dutch is mainly spoken in Flanders (Vlaanderen), the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. The 'Belgian Dutch' is called Flemish (Vlaams).
Dutch people physical characteristics include being tall, having blue eyes, blond hair, and a slim build. This is a stereotype but not necessarily representative of all modern-day Dutch people.
Are Dutch people from Holland or the Netherlands? Because Holland isn't the name of the country, Dutch people are from the Netherlands. However, it's possible that you meet a Dutchie who is from Holland, but in this case, it would just mean that they're from either the province of North or South Holland.
Confusion continues because: People who live in the Hollands are called Hollanders, but all citizens of the Netherlands are called Dutch as is their language. But in Dutch they say: Nederlands sprekende Nederlanders in Nederland which sounds like they'd rather we call them Netherlanders speaking Netherlandish.
However, it's difficult to say for certain whether most scholars would refer to the Dutch as Vikings. We do know, however, that the Dutch people originate largely from the same culture and Nordic Bronze Age as the Norse, which links them to the Viking group.
The people of Holland are referred to as "Hollanders" in both Dutch and English, though in English this is now unusual.
Although they are both West Germanic languages, German or Deutsch and Dutch are not the same language. It's true they have a high degree of lexical similarity but different influences throughout history made them sound quite different.
Seeing as the Dutch refer to themselves as "nederlanders", there's no reason why the English can't use the equivalent 'netherlanders', in the same vein as 'greenlanders' or indeed 'new zealanders', but that's a different question.
Dutch is a Germanic language (>link), which means that it belongs to the same language group as Afrikaans, Danish, English, Faeroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish.
In The Netherlands approximately 80% of the inhabitants have green or blue eyes. Germany (especially the northern part of the country) follows with almost 70% having lighter eye colours. Within the ”light” eyed population, the green eyes are outnumbered by the blue eyes.
Ethnically, about 79-80% of the total population is Dutch, which itself is a mixture of Germanic and Celtic lineages. One group of the Dutch, the Frisians, are both ethnically distinct and also often lumped into the Dutch ethnicity thanks to cultural and historic similarities.
If you want to say hi in Dutch, you would simply say “hoi”. The more formal hello is “hallo”. Regional varieties of “hi” include “heuj”, “alo” and “huijj” but sticking to “hoi” or “hallo” is generally all you need.
Dutch is very similar to German, especially with regards to vocabulary, but the grammar is very different. It could be argued that Dutch has developed further and has become more simplified. The difference between the two languages is very clear when you look at the four cases.
The government has started to rebrand the country as the Netherlands to enhance its image in the face of global competition. For decades, the Dutch government used “Holland” and “the Netherlands” interchangeably to describe the country known for its iconic canals, tulip fields and windmills.
The Dutch government has officially decided to drop the moniker of Holland going forward, and will only refer to itself as the Netherlands. The Netherlands actually consists of 12 provinces, two of which combined make up Holland, so referring to the Netherlands as a whole as Holland is just wrong.