I heard Holland sits on sand, developed by people
2007-01-05 22:49:12 · 8 answers · asked by hot single mom 4 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Netherlands
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2007-01-09 20:48:32 · update #1
It's not all sand. Big parts of the country have clay soil, and the south has löss.
Holland is part of the country named The Netherlands: North-Holland and South-Holland are two provinces at the west coast of this country.
Big man-made dams and dikes protect this part of the country from the sea, which is at a higher level than the land in coastal area.
Further south is the province named Zeeland, which is not only protected by dikes, but also by the "Delta Works" a huge gate that can open and close it's massive doors to let the river water out while stopping the sea from comming in.
The northern provinces Friesland and Groningen are also protected by natural dunes and man-made dikes.
Last but not least, the province named Flevoland is completely man-made. By building the Closure Dike across the Southern-Sea, connecting the provinces North-Holland and Friesland, part of the sea became a lake. In this lake, new land was created by building huge dikes and pumping out the water.
More about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk
2007-01-07 11:37:09 · answer #1 · answered by Endie vB 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Holland the country, official name : Kingdom of the Netherlands is more than 50% "man-made".
Basically half of the country is above the ocean level, but the other half is below the ocean level. So what the Dutch did is that they built dams and windmills to get all the water out of the lowlands areas.
2007-01-05 22:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by Tank D 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Literal translation: God made the earth, the Dutch made Holland.
Translation: the Dutch are known for its pioneering technology in water defense and land reclamation.
It is because they have reclaimed so much land from the sea that in a way they made the country.
Endie vB explains it nicely.
2007-01-11 08:08:12 · answer #3 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no that is not treu, holland is not man-made. we do have this big sea(our lake which is called Ijselmeer) part of this lake has been put drie so we had a little bit more land. Also, half of the Netherlands is below sealevel. We've built lots of dikes that's why the netherlands still excist. We live in the middle of the netherlands, if the dikes had not been there we'd been living by the sea now.
2007-01-06 07:14:45 · answer #4 · answered by saskia r 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Dutch reclaimed the land; that is to say they scooped out sand from the ocean and redeposited it on the coast to form new land.
2007-01-05 22:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The part that is "man made" is Rotterdam. The Dutch reclaimed this land from the sea.
2007-01-08 04:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by athomemom74 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
that depends how you define it.
Large parts are reclaimed from the sea (this is called inpoldering).
2007-01-06 07:45:05 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure the structures are man made, but everything natural is made by God.
2007-01-05 22:52:27 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋