Great video! One thing you missed is the 'maasvlakte' and 'maasvlakte 2'. That's the expansion of port Rotterdam in the North Sea. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasvlakte_2
For the narrative, it's fine to mention Lelystad, because it was named after the engineer in charge. However, most people live in *that other city* making Lelystad a bit of an oversized town with city facilities but not too many citizens. Because Lelystad is further away and that other city is rather close to Amsterdam.
"why spend millions of euros building new land when you can also steal it" The Dutch already stole a lot of land. Been there done that, we wanted a new challenge.
@@Ongevraagd Don't forget the Germans, French and the Spaniards , Most of the land we stole in Europe has been stolen back after they stole it from us :D , also we parted with a great deal of our country that we all know today as Belgium.
The Dutch will stop expanding their land until they share a land border with the UK, Norway and Denmark. North Sea? Oh you must mean the North Lake and Polder area.
@@ariearie7953 It's weird to be crying about it.It sure as hell is something to be proud of but cmon tears?Rly?I dont think Americans cried from landing on a moon 😅
The same technology can be implemented in Bangladesh too.The country is land hungry,lots of rain and 3 major rivers carrying about 2 billion tons of rich silt from upper Himalayan mountains...
if a 1920s netherlands with 1920s tech could done that, it would be pretty easy to do for bangladesh today. it just takes a while until the profits from such an endevour kick in. but they are worth it. u invite netherland engineering students and teachers (cheaper) and start with a smaller project, to develope best practice thats cost efficient and expedient, which u then can expand onto more area
In some aspects, Bangladesh and the Netherlands ar pretty similar. With the nations being a major delta of their continents, it lies low, has a higher density of inhabitants than surrounding countries, and overall having the same struggles. I really like this idea, but the main issue would be cost. Bangladesh has a coastline twice the size that of the Netherlands, having a more difficult soil, and needing to displace relatively larger amounts of people to make these dams and dikes possible. I think that over time however, it would be possible to secure certain areas that are most prone to flooding and/or most profitable once secured. The other major factor is achievability, as the country’s economy is growing, it would be no where near attainable for Bangladesh in its current state. Corruption is very high, unlike that of the Netherlands at that time, and the total sum of money would be too large compared to its national purchase power. Also, sustainability is something to keep in mind, which would make it slightly harder. But, with the financial aid of countries and stakeholders and the knowledge of the Netherlands, this would be somewhat doable and honestly pretty amazing to see come to being :)
It was studied, some 20 years ago by Dutch engineers. Unfortunately it was not viable. When you see the figure of 285 billion Euro that is mentioned in this video, you'll understand why.
BritMonkey: "When you can do as the rest of Europe did and simply steal it." Dutch: Yep, totally did not steal any land. No sir, we'll build our own land. Yes sir, no stealing here. *rummages some history books and VOC ledgers under the carpet*
VOC can be adressed to Holland ! Besides those 2 provences the other Dutch have part in this. Especialy the south . They killed 70% of the Brabant residents with all that money.
@@MrLlcoolveer I assume you're talking about the province Holland? The Netherlands is a nation comprised of provinces, yes. But a Dutch province is not the same as say, a state in the USA where the state has seperate laws and government (at least, not to the degree they have there). However the VOC was a Dutch company. Might've been founded and headquartered in Holland but that does not negate the fact that it was a Dutch company. So I'm confused as to what point you're trying to make?
@@ralph7349 then better drop the first we as in your version that is doubled. Also its not quite about the sea but the tide, but hey everyone can have their preferences where it comes to translations.
The year is 2100: London is now completely submerged due to climate change and tensions with the Netherlands are rising as they keep settling on British fishing grounds
@Douwe Bloot By land expanding the Dutch reached the mouth of the Theems and legally claim fishing grounds up to Westminster... The vast estuary where London once was is know for its kippers...
Yeaah something fishy going on...But in 2120 The Netherlands will have made the Noordzee polder and the Uk and the Netherlands will have a landborder...🤯
Beautiful Video about beautiful people. As an African living in the Netherlands, it makes me sad when i meet the youth who have no interest in science and technology. I read chemisty in high school back in Africa and studied about Van der Vaal and the covalent forces and asked myself when there was a debate to remove the statues of the the slave era. I said, why not replace these good for nothing statues with those of these great scientists to motivate and encourage this generation about what make you great? How possible should 5G be difficult for people of this great history?
what the hell are you talking about? i love science and history. im going to major in chemistry and everyone i know also loves science. idk in what part of the Netherlands you live but where i live people are very interested in just that
Those statues symbolize the values we venerate. If we keep up statues of slave traders - leisurely, privileged gentlemen who produced nothing in their lives, only speculated and enriched themselves - then our values truly are fucked up. I don't like riots. I feel like tear gassing chimps who go around smashing and looting things, to be perfectly honest. But we should naturally replace old and rotten symbols with new and fresh ones.
"They named their new city Lelystad" *shows picture of Almere Centrum*. I'd know, I walk in that exact spot that the photo is taken once or twice every week when heading to the coffeeshop just out of sight on the left side. But go Flevoland! It's quite remarkable to live in a city that's younger than my parents. The buildings, the parks, the very ground is so young and you can tell. Amazing city planning, things just make sense, everything looks new and high tech. Love it!
one of the things that never fails to bring me to tears is a short poem written on a memorial dedicated to both the completion of the deltawerken and the 1953 flood: hier gaan over de tij, De maan, de wind en wij Here the tide is ruled by the moon, the wind and us it's a declaration of victory over the sea that has killed and destroyed countless men, women, children, animals, plants and homes for centuries. I think you have to be Dutch to truly understand how much that means.
This is the exact mindset we need now! "Where there's a will there's a way", i.e. mission-oriented governance. Massive flooding? Gives us 20 days and we agree on building a massive dam to make sure it never happens again. I want to see those politicians back, goal-oriented not power oriented
Plan was to dry the surrounded piece of land, just like the flevopolder and such, but environmentalists complained about birds and eggs and fish. So we made it a nature's reserve.
Miranda de Mos You see, he was sharing amazing plans/accomplishments, so I got more and more baffled as the video progressed. Was so amazed by everything in the first 6mins and till that point was feeling some kind of glory and power... THEN OUT OF NOWHERE “ah and then they built one more dam just in case” with this tiny black line onscreen which seemed like a joke compared to everything before that 😂 COMMON HOWS THAT NOT FUNNY
@@baskoning9896 good to knows,because when he said another dam for land reclamation i was like dammn leave the remain lake alone,the lake will banish its so sad😅
For those of you wondering where all that money for the deltaworks came from: in the 1950's an enormous gas field of about 2700 billion m3 was discovered in the north of the country. This has resulted in some 250 billion euro's profit for the government to spend. Most of this has been spent on infrastructure and science projects (mainly in the south and west of the country).
You totally should visit. One tip : not all the exciting stuff is in amsterdam. And coffeeshops are everywhere. Not just amsterdam. Seriously, everbody goes to amsterdam for that specific stuff, but we got like thousands of them across the country.
Nederlanders are ameyzing people I love them and I respect them, they're smart respectful hardworking. I wish all of the best ❤🤝🙏make Nederlands great again. I am From Ethiopia , Ik heb zo veel geleerd van jullie Nederlands . Groetjes,Fillimon
Now we are making the Afsluitdijk in the IJsselmeer, 2 meter higher. Because the climate chance. It will be finished around 2022. It was and is an eternal during battle against the water for the Netherlands. Lol
Wealdend what are you on? climate.nasa.gov/news/16/rising-waters-new-map-pinpoints-areas-of-sea-level-increase/ clearly shows that the overall water level is increasing, with some places having a sea level lowering. There is no signs of tilting (there are a few places where subduction plates are lowering the levels like the western USA). Also the water temperature matters (water is smallest at 4°C) Nobody (that is a climate scientist) said the polar ice caps would be gone, they said they could be gone. (Big distinction). If you use source. Actually read them first please.
Great video. Always like to see stuff on my home country. These great construction projects always inspire me. We Dutch don’t like dream, but when we do you can be damn sure we’ll follow through.
Nice video, just one correction: the huge agricultural export is actually re-exporting the import, so it's about Netherlands' trade hub status and not its own agricultural output (which is also big for the country's size, but not comparable to bigger countries).
As far as I'm concerned we do have huge botanical export, where our tomatoes and crap are grown in these hypertechnological centrals, so we outproduce a lot of other big countries, no?
@@tiesvanrooij2706 My comment always disappears, I don't know why, maybe because of the links. So here it is without links: The Netherlands is 22nd in the World in tomato production, and 6th in Europe, which is very good for the size of the country, but not 1st. Probably, the Dutch agriculture is very export oriented, it produces much more than it consumes, and has high added value (flowers, cheese etc.). Re-export makes up 28% of the total export, what is big but actually lower than what I heard earlier.
Nice video on my home land. All the big waterworks were discussed here, but we also have a giant network of waterways, lakes and trenches that are just holding water and let it seep into the ground, not taking it out to sea because we're under sea-level dude. We're also experimenting with generating electricity using the salt/fresh water (reversed osmosis). Every time when it rains for longer than 2 days in a row the embankments start sagging and that is usually just left to its fate. The maintenance is poorly thought out. The only things kept under constant surveillance is (are) the sea barrier(s), the rest is designed to sit for a thousand years without being touched.
Most Dutch drink water don't come from that lake. Only the regions around it. I live in Drenthe. And my water comes out of the ground in my own province. Same goes for Groningen and Friesland
Most of North Holland drinking water comes from the dunes. Filtered over hundreds of years and as clear as water can be. It still amazes me that people buy bottled water here... it makes me mad too...
Late comment but I was reading the comments as I too (as a South Lincolnshire native) have great respect for the Dutch engineers who built our flood defences. The district of Lincolnshire I am from, to commemorate them, is now called South Holland and the “drainage ditches” are known as “Dykes/Dijks” (not be confused with the offensive term of course). My family home sits below sea level and without the Dutch Dykes and Pumping Stations would face near annual floods! Not very well known outside of East Anglia/South Lincolnshire do to their sparse population but many of us whose families have been here for generations and have served on drainage boards have a deep gratitude for the Dutch.
Small mistake: around 5:45 when Lelystad is mentioned, the picture shown is a picture of the city Almere. Which is in south Flevoland roughly 40 minutes from Lelystad.
I want to mention how odd it actually is to live in the Noordoostpolder. Mainly things that you don't think daily about. But there are no buildings actually old. The Noordoostpolder consists of a city in the middle (Emmeloord, where I live) and multiple villages on about 15km (cycling distance) surrounding it. The polder is made up of rectangular lots and consists of mainly straight roads that are named after the village they lead to (you basically can't get lost). Between that is farmland. Also, there is no nature in the Netherlands, because everything is built or maintained to such a degree. The last untouched piece of forest has been cut, I believe decades ago. Farmland is not nature, as many seem to believe. It's industry with a ridiculous high turnover and no regard for the ecology of the soil, unless it increases production. I don't know what my conclusion is, just that I hate it and I love it.
The Netherlands The real greatest nation on earth The only nation I've seen build artificial practically and efficiently I love the Netherlands and it will always remain my favorite place to go and hopefully I can move there in the future
Fun coming across this video now. I recently went to the newest bit of fake land. Its not reclaimed, its all just "opgespoten" meaning sprayed on. Just tonnes and tonnes of sand dumped near the coast to create a new port, industrial areas, roads, beaches and wind turbines. Its called the 'Maasvlakte 2' or 'Tweede Maasvlakte.' If you're ever in South Holland (the province) check it out!
Amazing! If thing goes well, I’m planning to visit Netherlands for the first time next year!! I’m so excited and even more excited after watching this video! 🤩🤩🤩
Dont think it's fair to state the Dutch didn't steal lands like the other European colonial powers. From the Dutch Golden Age onwards the Nederlands had control over large parts of Indonesia. The Dutch have a rich history of oversea trade and colonialism, becoming the most important country of the world in seventeenth century. Until the 19th century it was not only building but stealing as well. But very interesting video, well explained.
Just a little detail: polders are not islands, since they are at a lower level than the surrounding water, so Flevoland can not be the largest manmade island in the world. It is probably the largest polder in the world though.
You can move to a sandbox country in the Middle East if you don't like to pay taxes. But you're damn sure in The Netherlands you are safe. Yes you have to pay some taxes and no, it aint nice to do so. But the money is spend well here.
Nice Video! May I suggest, it would have been nice if you mentioned the "Maeslantkering" or "Stormvloedkering". This is a huge storm surge barrier protecting the city of Rotterdam and surrounding land for possible floods during heavy storm. The Maeslandkering is as long as the Eiffel Tower and weighs more then four times it's weight. This barrier remains open all the time to let many ships through and only closes during floods. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering
funny really I live next to the second afsluitdijk and they have a zuiderzee museum where they teach you about building dams. my school would visit the museum and we had to build mini dams. they even have school trips with the school bus going across that dam. the sight is beautiful.
Such an inspiring story. The amount of hardwork unity thought process that has gone into from learning implementing the best which stands testimony from the past present and the future. Salute those engineers the government and the people who made it happen. Trust me I had goosebumps. Thanks for sharing this wonderful story
A year, late, but on par for the topic, we'll never get an infrastructure project of that size done in time. When the sea level rises, you better build a sea wall on the German border.
Also: the Netherlands are in-cre-di-bly densely populated compared to most western countries ;p We've got less than 20 million people but when you realize just how small this piece of land is you'll see that's quite a lot to cram into such a small area. I still think we'll sink one day though, there's bound to be that one (completely unlikely, must be something like huge body from space hitting the ocean or something) tsunami or whatever that just instantly floods half the country.
The most impressive thing about all this is that the politicians looked into the future and allowed construction of the various dams smoothly, rather than doing nothing.
Basically the exact opposite thing that New Orleans did. It'll be gone within the next 50 years and the Netherlands will probably lose hardly any land in that same time.
And to top it all of, .... we have: Floor Jansen, Anouk, Simone Simons, Anneke van Giersbergen, Sharon den Adel, Charlotte Wessels, Zora C., all of them big voices in the rock and metalscene. U.S. culture is great, but we have the engineers and the amazones.
As an American, I view the Dutch as a very efficient and practical society. For example it takes years to build one lane on a small road here because private companies milk city money for every cent. Profit incentives cause important construction to come slowly. I think learning about the history of the Netherlands you can see that they had to work efficiently on infrastructure out of necessity. Couple that with their economic policies, and you get a nation where tax dollars actually get put to good use rather than siphoned off by private banks. I wish I lived somewhere like that instead.
The picture at 5:43 is actually Almere, not Lelystad. Lelystad is the capital of the province of Flevoland but Almere is the biggest urban center, and is closest to Amsterdam.
The proverb goes a little bit different: ‘God created the world but the Dutch made Holland.’ Holland lies beneath sea level. The rest of The Netherlands lies above it.
@@baggiefc je achternaam past goed bij je geloofsovertuiging. God (Allah) is er zeker of je nou wil of niet. Het complete bestaan en leven op aarde is genoeg bewijs.
[AZ] PUNSPOWER de 80 jarige oorlog was niet begonnen door Nederland, het begon bij Filips II en het vervolgen van ketters. De Nederlanden was vroeger onder de heerschappij van Spanje maar omdat de Nederlanders geen vrijheid kregen om te geloven waarin ze zelf wilden geloven ging Filips II de zogenaamde Ketters vervolgen. Na een tijdje van het vermoorden van ketters waren Nederlanders er ook een beetje klaar mee 100 adelen schreven daarom een brief naar de zus van Filips II waarin ze vroegen of ze het vervolgen van ketters wouden stoppen. Deze brief kwam binnen bij de zus van Filips II en de zus stopte even met het vervolgen van de Kettter omdat vroeger toen nog alle kerken katholiek waren deden de ketters hagenpreken (Een bijeenkomst van protestanten) Uiteidelijk liep een hagenpreek uit de hand en begonnen de protestanten de welbekende beeldenstorm na deze beeldenstorm was Filips II woest en stuurde een leger naar de Nederlanden om alles tot rust te brengen. Het leger van Filips II begon dorpjes af te slachten alleen maar om als voorbeeld to laten zien hoe sterk ze waren, en dus zo begon Spanje de 80 jarige oorlog.
We simply running out of space! More and more people want to live here and enjoy our vision on freedom. But we are out of room. We can only go back to ask more from the sea! So ideas about, bigger airport in the sea, or floating cities are under investigation and discussing. We don't fight the water , we did then we had to pay for it by flooding rivers. Water needs room, we negotiate with big water. What do you want, where do you like to go. That keeps us dry most of the time!
@@justmike-yt then pandemic comes? And no farmers left? No import possible than what. Didn't you see the city state of Singapore? All Bank and buildings. No travel possible? We need our farmers! And they need space. So maybe just maybe, you can also say less people have the same results!!!
I live in the Noordoostpolder. Fun fact. They used the debree after the bombing in Rotterdam to close the Noordoostpolder. That is why near Creil we have the "Rotterdamse hoek"
Great video! There is just one thing: it's not the rain that caused the worst floods in the Netherlands but storm surges. Strong north western winds above the north sea can push enormous volumes of water south-east, into the funnel formed by the UK on one side and France/Belgium/the Netherlands on the other. Because not all the water can fit through the English channel at once, sea levels can rise substantially during the storm. When this conincides with spring tide, water levels can be exceptionally high, causing floods not only in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium and the UK. The Netherlands are usually hit hardest just because they're the lowest, but other countries in the region have had to take measures against storm tides. For example, the Thames barrier was built partially because of this. (Also, it seems like a bad idea to protect yourself against too much rain by building dams, because they keep the water in instead of allowing it to get out.)
actually at 2:40 you made a mistake (not a huge one, everyone makes it), the Afsluitdijk is *30* kilometers long. the 2 extra is another dam wich connects to it at some small island. that dam is called the Amsteldiepdijk
The water to supply the water systems is coming from somewhere .rivers dunes etc depends on where you live . Chanels etc are important to keep the ground water level steady. So we are working with the water not against it .
a short heads up, we might be the 2nd largest food exporter, but thats only because of the port of rotterdam where vast amounts of raw materials get imported, then get processed into something (soy bean > soy oil is an example) and then exported again. In terms of raw production, we rank far lower. its hilarious that people really believe we produce more than agricultural giants like france, germany, italy, ukraine ect. we simply do not have enough farmland to do so, even though we produce more tonnes per acre because of tech.
You know the story about Caligula, the mad roman emperor, sending a legion to stab the sea with swords, because he declared war on Poseidon? Well, the Dutch are so badass, that when they declared war on the sea, they actually won.
I know it's completely logical that videos about the Netherlands always have a bunch of Dutch people commenting and revelling in how great we are but it never ceases to amuse me. Never can help but wonder how much non-Dutch people actually watch and comment :')
