How the Dutch Created The Netherlands

This video is about How the Dutch Created The Netherlands. Topics include polders, Delta Works, and the Zuiderzee Works.

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Mistakes, Corrections, & Clarifications
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- At least one image of the 1953 flood is in the UK, not the Netherlands. However, it is the same event. 307 people in England were killed by the flood.
- At 1:03 the graphic says "1 meter above sea level" it should say "at least 1 meter above sea level"

- At 7:00 the map is missing at least one project from the Delta Works.
- The source I used that stated that about 50% of the Netherlands was reclaimed land was inaccurate. The number is closer to 17%. However, 21% of the country's population lives in the 26% of the land located below mean sea level and about 65% of the country would be underwater at high tide if it were not for the existence and the country's use of dikes, dunes, and pumps.

[NLJeffEU]

There are 3 things that can change the tides. The Moon, the Wind and the Dutch 😂👍🇳🇱

[vincenzodigrande]

We flooded our own land to our own advantage during the 80 year war against the Spanish. Their troops couldn't enter when certain lands were flooded to half a meter, as horses would then refuse to continue. After their retreat we just pumped it all out again.

[gijskramer]

Another saying is;if a video is about the netherlands, 90% of the viewers are dutch

[justmike-yt]

We donated the water to England. They now sell it as beer.

[ced-forgot-name]

It's fun to hear people talk about where you live

[UnholyMinty]

Me who’s Dutch and knows damn well how it happened:
*Interesting*

[vlissinger]

Shame our secret is out, we din't want to tell the rest of the world about our new project yet. most people call it the "united Kingdoms" we call it the first part of our new dijk

[thesteph]

Zeeland: *exists *
ocean: “and I took that personally”

[robvoncken]

Saying we are winning the war against the sea is something a Dutchman would never say. Its an eternal struggle. your pronunciation is pretty good don't worry

[xSTONYTARKx]

The life of a Dutchmen:
- dealing with weather
- dealing with the sea
-dealing with people calling our country Holland instead of The Netherlands

[toprob]

The 1953 flood mostly hit the Zeeland province. But if not for one captain who ran his boat into a breach in a dijk near Niewerkerk aan de IJssel large parts of the most densely populated parts of the country would have flooded and many more thousands of people would have died...

[psymetric]

Small correction. We Dutch didn't win the war with the water. We found a a way to cooperate with the water . It's not about fighting it, but knowing how to controle & guide it. You can't fight nature.

[GlentusYT]

Me as a dutch person seeing dutch in a title:
*So anyway, i started watching*

[reinier]

As a Dutch, I can say this is an excellent video and very accurate explanation of how my country came to be 👍

[Evitaschannel]

The "Watersnoodramp" a giant flooding of mainly the province Zeeland, hit my mothers side of the family particularly. In the death certificates of my great grandparents it said: "Passed away february first, found on the tenth of march". This means that they got flushed out of their homes and were only found weeks after the flood. Through the years the trauma got less and less. Dutch kids are educated about the relationship the country has with the water, but I think it's really important to remember how dangerous water is.

[RedOrm]

And it's not just the sea our engineers have to contend with; people tend to forget that the Netherlands are essentially an estuary for two main rivers flowing through Europe: Maas and Rijn. Heavy rain or snow in Germany and France / Belgium means a lot of water making its way to the North Sea through the Netherlands.
There is a third, less well known Delta works project: river water management.

[chris]

Well done, Sir! I remember when the Delta Werken were under construction. Many school trips went there, including my school when I was a youngster.

[henkvandenbos]

Thank you Geography Geek for this interesting video! I can add one thing to it: 'droogmakerijen' (droog = dry, maken = to make, so read 'land made dry'). Areals like Beemster, Purmer and Schermer: land claimed from the water even older than the polders. The main difference is that a polder has a 'ringvaart', a canal surrounding the polder, like 'ringvaart Haarlemmermeer', and the water not only has to be pumped out of the polder into the ringvaart, but also has to be guided out of the ringvaart by pumps and/or sluices/locks.

[ellaeisenberg]

0:47 "the dutch doesn't even have a single mountain"
The Dutch people: that hurts...

[jeanneensing]

The best thing I think is that because of our centuries of experience in keeping our feet dry and, if possible, not submerging, we are asked worldwide to save people after major floods, how to prevent them in the future and bridge construction .
Thank you for this wonderful contribution to the history of my country.
Thumb up from me ;)