Environment maps

Dutch land reclamation efforts

About 17% of the total land area of the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea. As a result, approximately 65% of the nation would be underwater at high tide without dams and pumps. Land reclamation in the 20th century added 1,650 sq km or 640 sq mi to the nation’s land area. Today 21% of the Netherlands ‘ population dwells in 26% of the land below mean sea level.

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Interactive Pangea map with international borders

Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, fully assembled about 270 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, much of Pangea was in the southern hemisphere and surrounded by a super ocean, Panthalassa. Pangea was the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists.

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