On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

The Netherlands is a latter-day innovation. Holland is the central region
of the Netherlands. Compare that with the UK and England.

As for why they are called Dutch, see

  <URL: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Dutch>

Generally Germanic peoples called themselves Dutch.

Marko,

  Thank you for an answer to a question it never occurred to me to ask. I
appreciate the lesson.

Carpe weekend,

Rich
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