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largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

Although the constitution of the Netherlands makes Amsterdam the official country capital, the national government actually meats in the country's third largest city, The Hague.

Amsterdam = largest city of the Dutch

We saw the Anne Frank House, the Rijksmuseum, and the Van Gogh Museum while we were in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

I have danced all night in Haarlem, Amsterdam, and in Harlem, USA.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

Salva flew in a jet to New York City, another one to Amsterdam, and a third to Kampala in Uganda.
Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

He'd said he couldn't tell me except in person, and then invited me to Amsterdam.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

In the end she persuaded him, much against his will, to fly over to Amsterdam to see the Semi-Demi-Finals of the Women's Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

In the early part of summer in Molching, as Liesel and Papa made their way through the book, this man was traveling to Amsterdam on business, and the snow was shivering outside.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

A few months after that, in October 2011, my father told me he had received an email informing him I was one of five nominees for the international peace prize of KidsRights, a children's advocacy group based in Amsterdam.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

Yonder woman, Sir, you must know, was the wife of a certain learned man, English by birth, but who had long ago dwelt in Amsterdam, whence some good time agone he was minded to cross over and cast in his lot with us of the Massachusetts.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands

Like, after he got back from Amsterdam at some point.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

I'd never heard him sob like this except from outside his house before Amsterdam.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

One morning, a month after returning home from Amsterdam, I drove over to his house.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

Amsterdam was a city designed for movement and activity, a city that would rather not travel by car, and so inevitably I felt excluded from it.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

As we drove through the streets of Amsterdam, she repeatedly and profusely apologized.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

I only had two days left in Amsterdam with Augustus Waters.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

"Thank you for coming to Amsterdam," he said.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

The old man who'd given up his seat saw us noticing and said, in English, "Amsterdam's spring snow."
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

Amsterdam = largest city of the Netherlands; known for its canals, museums, and multiculturalism

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