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.
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.
@@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 😅
@@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.
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?
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...🤯
"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!
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.
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😅
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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! 🤩🤩🤩
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Stretching the classic film footage from 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 has the effect of making it more blurry. Original aspect plus fancy border effects probably better, imo. Other than that, this is entertainingly presented. Seriously, who knew a video about shovelling mountains of dirt was good. Will check out ur other vids
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.
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.
More likely we'll be building the defenses upwards. In the Noordoostpolder there's the Waterloopbos, a forest now open to the public where the government experimented water engineering for all across the world in small. From the Zuiderzee werken to the port of Singapore, there's a lot of interest things to see and read while strolling through that forest.
Note that the dam with the opening parts were in large part because of ecological problems with the earlier small estuary closings (like the Haringvliet). That's quite some environmental sense in the early 1980s
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.
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.
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!!!
Another interesting thing, you don't really see in other countries, are the water councils. Governmental bodies that exists besides townships and provinces, and that are dealing with the waterworks within their territory (which can overlap several townships...)
Those do exist in Finland and Sweden at least. Most areas they are only for ground water pumping and protection though. Its only for the town next to rivers prone to flooding where responsibilities are similar to Dutch counterparts.
Anyone who points out the image at 5:43 is Almere, not Lelystad spends a night in the box. I got the message. You do not need to comment it anymore.
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
He i live in rotterdam the city with the brige in the video
It's Almere not Lelystad
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.
that was a indeed a picture of almere stad not lelystad
This is why you can’t put water in the nether
goddammit
@@ThisIsArty Dutch-dam-it actually.
Unless its Bedrock edition. ... and you have a cauldron.
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@@SpaceSoups 💀
"The Netherlands declared war against the sea, and the Dutch are winning"
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@@bootje_6596 ja eh haha.
@@ahanuabedanu6798 goed onthoude hahah
@@razzfn5868 precies 💪🏻
And that while Australia has lost a war against birds once
That's why dutch people are so tall, so they don't drown
Humor!
Henk de Lange says the one with the family name as: “The Long”. Nice!
Hahahahahaha
hahahha
Ey bro fuck you
"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.
And if people were still claiming/stealing land the UK would have stole it anyways.. or would try to make a deal to get it
@@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.
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@Alexander zzz indonesia and suriname
No problem
The year is 2400, most of Europe has flooded due to rising sea levels,
The Netherlands has become an island nation
It will be like the corny Japanese comedy movie The World Sinks Except Japan.
And they ditched the EU to join their greatest friends in Great Britain.
@@johnking1245 we better ditch the EU.
@@johnking1245 sorry you people are not direct and too polite or better said sneaky.
Its 3400 and the sea level has been high for a long time but the dutch is a big island nation
I N G E P O L D E R D
lmao ik wilde net gekoloniseerd neer zetten xD
@@anglerfish61 ik ben niet zo goed in nederlandse meme's waar komt dat uberhaubt vandaan?
@@Redisia Omdat we vroeger de wereld koloniseerden is het koloniseren van videos een soort van zelfspot nu.
@@anglerfish61 Jup dat weet ik, maar is er een bron? Wie is er me gestart?
@@Redisia that I dont know. Het is al jaren aan de gang namelijk
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.
What do you think of noord sea polder???
@@Tychovg Even though it would then hardly be a sea anymore. The name is something the Dutch would come up with. I like it.
@@Tychovg sounds amazing
yeah thats waht i think about it
We Will Just go around the uk and beyond
I love that is just all dutchies being all happy about this video
Happy or filling their ego's about something they didn't even do themselves?
@@janpeters2026 You can be proud of your parents as well, you know.
@@janpeters2026 is your bloodtype b-? Since you seem like you'll always be negative
I sure am 😂
Yes we areeee
It's simple.
If it ain't Dutch,
it ain't much.
@Frank Clarke And they're such a enowned global super power,, lol
Max van der Weijden precies
Frank Clarke just claiming land isn’t exactly called saving people
@Frank Clarke we flooded our country on own behalf, it helped damn much in WW2
@Frank Clarke you didn't save anything. Your brave grand grand parents did. They deserve our ever lasting gratitude. You don't.
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 :)
Yeah, all that precious funding will probably end up in the pockets of the nice politicians and developers :D
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.
It is going to be hard. There's far more rivers there then here
This video makes me so patriotic I'm crying.
Arie Arie same..
Lol.Weird thing to be patriotic about but ok
@@patersul the greatest inffrastructure project humanity ever created is a wierd thing to be patriotic about?
@@ariearie7953 Exactly
@@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 😅
On the Deltaworks there is a saying: Here the tide is governed by the moon, the wind and us.
A better suited translation is "here we rule over the sea, the moon, the tide and we" mainly because that rhymes.
@@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.
Hier gaat over het tij de maan de wind en wij
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*
All land has been stolen one way or another, we did that as well, but we have also made land, where are you from again?
@@RayHolland494 I'm from the Netherlands myself, but I think you might have missed the sarcastic/humorous undertone in my comment.
Ssshhhh, we don't talk about that ; )
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?
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...
This treaty was before the EU
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...🤯
@Douwe Bloot They sold it off, even.
i was hoping they'd bring doggerland back
Letsgo dutchies, we boutta expand our borders to australia, whos with me
Time for a North sea polder, a Baltic polder, Mediterranean polder, Atlantic polder and a Pacific polder.
Right here, let's go.
We'll take britain, place our borders next to the northpole, USA, australia, and south africa
Yes, lets build an alliance
Aight
This video gave me goosebumps, proud to be Dutch
made me feel ashamed to be belgian
@@katmeneer1439 You are Dutch as well. Belgium is a fake country.
@@herbertherbertic6223 shit isn't fake if you want to know
@@katmeneer1439 It is.
@@herbertherbertic6223 i hope you got the joke
This video: *exists*
The dutch: *patriotism activate*
"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!
Dat is een grote faal in de video
Wait... they photographed the train station?
Laten we eerlijk zijn. Eigenlijk had Almere de hoofdstad van Flevoland moeten worden😉
@@Natsukiee Haha dat klopt :)
Natsukiee ja lelystad is kut
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
i have never supported removal of statues until you brought up this great idea, so much better than the current plans
@timkotim i think keeping the statues is perfectly fine
And secondly mptivating statues are cringe and make people feel worse not better
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.
6:16 “and then they built another dam, just in case” this was so random and totally my humor 😂
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.
Bas Koning Good to know, thnx
😂😂😂
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😅
I'm Dutch myself. And it's all true. It's crazy what we have accomplished...
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
it's so nice getting history lessons, and actually learning something about my own country, from an english youtube channel
Haha daarom heb meer geleerd dan gvd 3 jaar geschiedenis op school
@@efetasgin7997 Oké niet overdrijven nu.
Fatih Anaz over nl bedoel ik
@@efetasgin7997 Dat is ook onzin...
Fatih Anaz nee is geen onzin ik doe mavo
I love how he tries to say Dutch names😂 as a Dutch person watching this i just can't stop laughing I'm sorry it so funny
Hahaha ikr
Same
Jow nog een Nederlander haha
Afsloeitdijk
I don't think he tries
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.
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).
''after a housing shortage in amsterdam'' Hmmm, lets do that again. new island time
What God ???? Thére is no God . Did anny one See this God ? So wy believing in something you cant see
The markermeer is still open ;p
@@Sneder ff wat aarde in smijten
Laten we de eilanden connecten
Rick Van Dam waarom we hebben al Kanaleneiland
I am greek and i am so proud for the work they put on making this country! This is amazing, hope one day to visit this beatiful land
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.
Sure, but first you gotta pay that multibillion-euro Tikkie we sent your way ;)
You can pay with any bank in the Netherlands. Thanks!
I don't know how I didn't find your channel earlier, but I love it!
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
I am happy that my country is like this now, and thank you Fillimon!!
❤️🇳🇱 Dutch greetings, from Rosalinde🇳🇱❤️
This Guy: why they didn't steal land like other country's. Indonesia: why you bully me
Yea but when we do England is always stealing it or stoping it like with New Amsterdam that is now called New York because of England
thats totaly what they said after watching this vidio
*hides history books and VOC stuff*
Yeah we didn't steal land
🤣🤣🤣 ik ga stuk= om crying of laughter
And Indonesia stole and colonized the Molukken. So a case of the Kettler calling the pot black.
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.
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 Sssshhhh. It's oké, Wealdend. It'll all be over soon
...
Soon.
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.
Was? The sea always takes back what was hers. Never mess with nature.
Monique De Franca maybe read it twice next time before replying. Ha Diep Said “was and is”. Not just “was”...
@@sysosmaster my lifegoal is to become a meteorlogist. And yes ocean levels are rising at alarming rate
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 saw it to haha
Lelystad en almere zijn 1 pot nat.
DJ J.D.V. Grappig
Scherp 🧐
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.
As a Dutch person myself I can only appreciate how well this guy pronounces everything
He does a decent job. However he pronounces noord oost polder quite German
My grandfather worked on the Delta works
Cool
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.
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
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
Metal Videos same here for rotterdam.. our drinking water is filtered from the maas
@@litchtheshinigami8936 yap i know. believe the water from amsterdam comes from the dunes at zandvoort.
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...
Ik komt uit noord brabant
life like a glitch kan je ook niets aan doen ;)
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! 🤩🤩🤩
Brilliant video! Always entertaining!
Its not expanding the shore but shortening them so takes less maintenance
Could you cover more of the 7 engineering wonders of the world? I'm loving this!
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!
this channel is underrated and deserves so many more subscibers
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
7:00 gaat over de stormvloedkering.
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.
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.
'Maasvlakte' in the Port of Rotterdam is also a very big project just like this which you could look into.
I'm loving the Simcity 4 music during the dam build :)
3:00
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.
As a native East Anglian, I have nothing but gratitude, admiration & praise for the Dutch master engineers!
They kidnapped 100s of German engineers to build this, even extorted Germany to pay for the dams.
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.
@@liammatson475 Thanks! But I am sure you paid a good price for the Dutch advice.
Love how how you used the Sim City theme for ultimate immersion. Getting nostalgic.
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
we will nwever stop. we actually proposed to lay dry the entire North Sea (together with Germany) lmao
Well then, great Idea! I want to Border with France, the UK, Denmark!!
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.
No need too watch the whole video just one word. “BELASTINGDIENST”
OMFG I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN I read this
a sentence: IK BEN EEN NEDERLANDER
Mwhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahaha i can feel you bro
Mood
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.
Very interesting and entertaining video. I especially like the Sim City soundtrack. Very fitting!
absolutely great video lad!
Georgists:
*SWEATING PROFUSELY*
In the Netherlands we have a saying: G E K O L O N I S E E R D
GEKOLONISEERD
Houd je bek eens een keer , in elke fucking Engels filmpje over NL die domme gekoloniseerd comment
oh ja zeker
@@Pitbull00000 niet waar deze meme is grappig
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Expected a way bigger channel than only 2.7k subscribers to make such quality content!
Canals in cities were dug for transporting goods from the harbor to the warehouses and visa versa. They also transported water.
To me there's no greater country than the Netherlands. I hope to be able to live and work there someday and if possible even make my family there.
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.
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.)
Stretching the classic film footage from 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 has the effect of making it more blurry. Original aspect plus fancy border effects probably better, imo.
Other than that, this is entertainingly presented. Seriously, who knew a video about shovelling mountains of dirt was good. Will check out ur other vids
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.
The picture when you discribe 'Lelystad' is actually Almere. The biggest of the city's in the polder
SimCity 4 music playing in the background is a nice touch
2:47 it says ( Zeehengelsport en kampeer vereniging het wad ) and it means ( Sea fishing and camping association the mudflats )
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.
And then compare that to places like New Zealand which is 5 times larger but only has population of about a ¼ of NL's population
Buying land on the Moon: cringe and stinky
Buying unexistant land in a future polder: BASED
More likely we'll be building the defenses upwards.
In the Noordoostpolder there's the Waterloopbos, a forest now open to the public where the government experimented water engineering for all across the world in small.
From the Zuiderzee werken to the port of Singapore, there's a lot of interest things to see and read while strolling through that forest.
Note that the dam with the opening parts were in large part because of ecological problems with the earlier small estuary closings (like the Haringvliet). That's quite some environmental sense in the early 1980s
I love how dutch words are pronounced by foreigners, lol (not criticizing tho, you actually did pretty good!)
The British guy done it well
Only one thing is missing from Holland : the FIFA world cup
I love that you've put Sim City music in the background 😂
As a half dutchie in Western Australia, this was a great video, some footage I haven't seen before
Me watching this video rn so I don't get it in my recomended 7 years later
Simcity 4 soundtrack! Lovely :)
just discovered your channel can't believe you don't have over 50k subscribers O_O
Thank you for sharing my country
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.
Ahh, a person of culture I see. :-)
Don't forget Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon) 😁
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.
Excellent research!
Sick video! It's soo interesting
5:46 the city you're showing is Almere
King, you dropped your crown👑
5:43 that is actually a picture of Almere, a similar city to Lelystad but it's in the south of Flevoland whereas Lelystad more to the north.
Nice video. @3:36 It's IJsselmeer called after the river IJssel.
I am Dutch, and I did not know 80% of this info. I will go to my room now and be very ashamed...
There's no one as insane as the dutch when it comes to battling the sea 😂
Completed 2 years ahead of schedule... Now that's something I never thought I'd hear.
The 1953 storm also caused some damage in the UK, prompting the building of the Thames barrier.
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!
We aren’t out of room, we’re just wasting a lot of space.
@@justmike-yt how are we wasting space please don't say by the farmers fields!
Rob Van Lent It’s the truth tho. How else could one of the smallest countries in the world be the second biggest exporter?...
@@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!!!
@@justmike-yt how you ask?
Well with greenhouses they made it to the second largest export country in the world
Not by fields from farmers
5:50 Guy Fieri has arrived.
Another interesting thing, you don't really see in other countries, are the water councils. Governmental bodies that exists besides townships and provinces, and that are dealing with the waterworks within their territory (which can overlap several townships...)
Those do exist in Finland and Sweden at least. Most areas they are only for ground water pumping and protection though. Its only for the town next to rivers prone to flooding where responsibilities are similar to Dutch counterparts.
Reminds me of geography lessons in the late 1970's and very early 1980's.