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The Netherlands built a 32-kilometre dam to push back the sea and create more farmland, accidentally creating an entirely new province where ships once sailed

People live on land that was once part of the ocean floor. This is part of daily life for thousands of people in central Netherlands. The Dutch have long managed flooding from the rising waters of the North Sea.

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