Flevoland Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of the Netherlands
About Flevoland
Flevoland was created by a large land reclamation project in the former North Sea inlet of Zuiderzee, calledZuiderzeewerken(Zuiderzee Works). Planning for it started in late 19th century, led by government minister and engineer dr Cornelis Lely, but it took several decades to complete it. Flevoland consists of two polders: the larger Flevopolder, only reclaimed in the late 1960s, which includes the largest city of Almere and the provincial capital of Lelystad, and the older Noordoostpolder, created in late 1930s and early 1940s around the former islands of Urk and Schokland, which are now incorporated into the newly created land mass. Having been an island before the creation of the polder, Urk contains the highest natural point in the province, such as it is. While Flevoland has been the
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