Who are the Dutch most closely related to genetically?

[Neon Knight]

True, but we Germans use 'Holland' as a synonym for all of the Netherlands.

Really? I thought it was only we British who did that. I think that would annoy me if I was a Netherlander. It's like saying Yorkshire to mean England.

[Septentrion]

Drenthe is where my Dutch ancestors came from. They came from a village called Hees. Not far from a different village called Ruinen.

We can say that the Germans are the most similar to the Dutch genetically as a whole. Though there are slight differences.

[Septentrion]

Genographic 2.0

Dutch population biogeographic genomic make-up:
59% (Western & Central Europe)
19% (Great Britain & Ireland)
13% (Scandinavia)
6% (Eastern Europe)
3% (Southern Europe)

Compared to some Germanic populations:

German:
42% (Western & Central Europe)
16% (Eastern Europe)
14% (Scandinavia)
11% (Great Britain & Ireland)
5% (Jewish Diaspora)
6% (Southern Europe)
6% (Finland & Northern Siberia)

Danish
56% (Scandinavia)
26% (Western & Central Europe)
7% (Eastern Europe)
6% (Finland & Northern Siberia)
2% (Great Britain & Ireland)

Norwegian
64% (Scandinavia)
14% (Eastern Europe)
12% (Finland & Northern Siberia)
8% (Western & Central Europe)

Thus we can easily deduce that Germans are closest.

[EasternEurope]

Definitely Flemish and then in close second, the Northwest Germans.

[Decius]

NW Germans

[Fantomas]

Genographic 2.0

Dutch population biogeographic genomic make-up:
59% (Western & Central Europe)
19% (Great Britain & Ireland)
13% (Scandinavia)
6% (Eastern Europe)
3% (Southern Europe)

Compared to some Germanic populations:

German:
42% (Western & Central Europe)
16% (Eastern Europe)
14% (Scandinavia)
11% (Great Britain & Ireland)
5% (Jewish Diaspora)
6% (Southern Europe)
6% (Finland & Northern Siberia)

Danish
56% (Scandinavia)
26% (Western & Central Europe)
7% (Eastern Europe)
6% (Finland & Northern Siberia)
2% (Great Britain & Ireland)

Norwegian
64% (Scandinavia)
14% (Eastern Europe)
12% (Finland & Northern Siberia)
8% (Western & Central Europe)

Thus we can easily deduce that Germans are closest.

France is closer. Germans, unlike Dutch, have large amounts of Eastern European and Finland admixture. Dutch are identical with French in it, and in 59% of West-Central

[Decius]

France is closer. Germans, unlike Dutch, have large amounts of Eastern European and Finland admixture. Dutch are identical with French in it, and in 59% of West-Central

So much for Deutschland Über Alles

[Septentrion]

Definitely Flemish and then in close second, the Northwest Germans.

Well the Flemish as I am, are no different from the Dutch. The people of the southern Netherlands and those of Flanders are practically the same.

[Septentrion]

France is closer. Germans, unlike Dutch, have large amounts of Eastern European and Finland admixture. Dutch are identical with French in it, and in 59% of West-Central

Yes, you made a good point for once.
French population:
59% (West & Central Europe)
21% (Southern Europe)
7% (Great Britain & Ireland)
5% (Eastern Europe)
3% (Jewish Diaspora)
2% (Scandinavia)
2% (Northern Africa)

However France shows a much greater amount of Southern European components than the Dutch and Germans associated with the agriculturalists who originated in the Fertile Crescent before their great migration into the European continent, some 8,000 years ago.

[Septentrion]

Dutch are Germans in denial.

The Dutch are not Germans, but they are very similar genetically with some differences.