Benelux Map

The Benelux is made up of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the 3 countries on this map. The Benelux lies in northwestern Europe, between France, Germany and the North Sea: Belgium sits in the middle, the Netherlands lies to its north and Luxembourg to its southeast. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are neighbors, and Belgium is the only one that borders both of the others. Germany lies along the eastern side of all three. The Benelux provinces and cantons map draws the regions inside them.

The Benelux Union is the intergovernmental union of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It grew out of the customs convention signed in London on 5 September 1944. The Benelux Economic Union treaty was signed on 3 February 1958, and a new treaty signed on 17 June 2008 renamed it the Benelux Union and entered into force on 1 January 2012. The name joins the first syllables of the three countries' names: BElgium, NEtherlands and LUXembourg. Besides the internal market and economic union, the treaty covers sustainable development and justice and home affairs.

Luxembourg is a sovereign country, a grand duchy in western Europe. It borders Belgium to the west and north, France to the south and Germany to the east, and it has no coast. Belgium also has a province named Luxembourg, which borders the country, but this map draws only the Grand Duchy. Luxembourg is the only landlocked Benelux member, and with 686,970 people it is also the least populous (World Bank, 2025). The city of Luxembourg is its capital, and the country's 12 cantons appear on the Luxembourg map with cantons.

The Benelux and the Low Countries overlap, but they are not the same thing. The Benelux is a treaty grouping of three states, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The Low Countries is the older geographic and historical name for the region, and historically it also took in parts of northern France and western Germany. This map follows the treaty grouping, so France and Germany are drawn in gray. Holland is a separate matter: it names two of the Netherlands' 12 provinces, North Holland and South Holland, not the country.

No. The map draws the European Netherlands. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, which are special municipalities of the Netherlands, are cropped out. Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten are separate countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and none of these six islands belongs to the Benelux. Two small uninhabited Wadden islands, Rottumerplaat and Rottumeroog, are below the map's size floor or missing from its source and are not drawn. The five inhabited Wadden islands, Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog, are drawn.

The Benelux Union is a separate treaty organization, but Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are all members of the European Union. The three were among its six founding states, together with France, Germany and Italy. The Benelux customs convention of 1944 is older than the European Coal and Steel Community of 1951, the first of the European communities, so the smaller union came first. France and Germany, drawn in gray on this map, are also EU members, as are most of the countries around the frame. For the whole union, use the Europe map.

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