Flevoland was named after Lacus Flevo, a name recorded in Roman sources for a large inland lake at the southern end of the later-formed Zuiderzee. The province has a population of 423,021 as of January 2020 and consists of six municipalities. Almost all of the land belonging to Flev Roland was reclaimed from those meres in the 1950s and 1960s.
About Flevoland in brief
Flevoland was named after Lacus Flevo, a name recorded in Roman sources for a large inland lake at the southern end of the later-formed Zuiderzee. The province has a population of 423,021 as of January 2020 and consists of six municipalities. Its capital is Lelystad and its most populous city is Almere. Flevoland is bordered in the extreme north by Friesland, in the northeast by Overijssel, and in the northwest by the lakes Markermeer and IJsselmeer. It is the smallest province of the Netherlands at 1,412 km2, but not gross land as that includes much of the waters of the fresh water lakes mentioned. Almost all of the land belonging to Flev Roland was reclaimed from those meres in the 1950s and 1960s. The first land reclaimed was the northeast polder in 1942.
It took in the former small islands Urk and Schokland. In the southwest the Flevopolder – larger than the above – was then reclaimed; its southeast half in 1957 and other parts by 1968. The municipalities on the three parts voted to become a province, shortly before this was effected in 1986. They are two polders with a jointrological infrastructure with a dividing dike in the middle, the Knardijk, that will keep one polder safe if flooded. The two main drainage cangates that traverse the dike can be closed by floodgates at Wortmanlyman, near Hardink, and the eastern dike and the Colijn along the northern dike beside the Ketelmeer beside Keteler.
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