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Limits RegistryThe Netherlands' Flevoland province, reclaimed from the Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer) starting in the 1950s, covers approximately 970 km² — the largest artificial island/reclaimed-land area in the world created by a single nation, now home to over 400,000 people on land that was open water less than a century ago.
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The Netherlands' Flevoland province, reclaimed from the Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer) starting in the 1950s, covers approximately 970 km² — the largest artificial island/reclaimed-land area in the world created by a single nation, now home to over 400,000 people on land that was open water less than a century ago.
The greatest total area of land reclaimed from a body of water in a single coordinated national reclamation project.
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Limits Registry. LR-LARGEST-LAND-RECLAMATION. Largest land reclamation project. 2026.