They are the same country!!!!!!!!!
Other view:
They kind of are, but not fully. Holland is mostly meant for two provinces in the Netherlands (North-Holland and South-Holland) some people who don't live in one of these provinces don't like people to call the Netherlands Holland. Personally, I'm living in South-Holland and I sometimes use The Netherlands and other times Holland. Most people know what I mean and Holland is just easier to say.
Oh, and with most football things it says 'Holland' not the Netherlands.
Edit:I have to disagree with Saskia a little, I am from the eastern part of the Netherlands, or Holland whatever suits you best ;) I also use mainly Holland when I talk to foreign people (especially Germans), because this is what they use most often.
I think most foreigners use Holland instead of The Netherlands, there is an explanation for this, I'll try to keep it short:
Before 1814 (When The Kingdom of the Netherlands was grounded) most dutch people who went abroad were sailors from Holland, the western part of nowadays Netherlands, which are now called North and South-Holland. Therefor those people called themselves Hollanders from Holland, since foreigners mainly met sailors from Holland, they believed everybody from this area is living in Holland.
I think you can compare it a little with former Sovjet countries nowadays, a lot of people living in Kazachstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia are still seen as Russians by foreigners. When your neighbour would be from 1 of those countries, a lot of people in your neighbourhood would know him as the guy from Russia.
It has three colours
red on top
white in the middle
blue on the bottom
http://www.vlaggen.com/images/de-nederlandse-vlag_kl.gif
Holland`s flag has red,white and blue on it.
It has three horizontal stripes: the top one is Red, the center is White, and the bottom one is Blue.
red,white,blue
but
holland itself doesn't have a flag it's Netherlands
Holland`s flag has red,white and blue on it.
what does the Cuban flag look like
like a flag
the colours of the french flag go vertically whilst the colours of the Holland flag go horizontally
what is india flag looks like
normans flag is a viking flag
who's flag ?????
Its the Italian flag!
what does asia's flag look like
The flag was basically the US flag now.
cuz, they look da same
the united states flag