Some cities in the Netherlands are guarded by flood walls to prevent them from flooding because there are below sea level
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Besides some individual towns in the Netherlands being guarded by flood walls, big gigantic flood barriers have also built to protect these cities against flooding because nearly one-third of the Netherlands is below sea level.
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Something you probably didn't know about the Netherlands: About one quarter to one third of The Netherlands are below sea level
You probably did not know that the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands is 6.5 feet or 2 meters below sea level? Just like many other places in the Netherlands some parts of the country is as low as 22 feet are 6.7 meters below sea level. Read more »
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