Flevoland, Netherlands

Flevoland, the youngest province in the Netherlands, has only existed since 1986. Before the mid-20th century, much of the land here simply didn’t exist. Flevoland was created through vast land reclamation projects in the 1950s and ‘60s. While the Dutch had been reforming their landscape to meet their changing needs for hundreds of years, it was in the 20th century that their most dramatic and ambitious projects were completed.
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