Noordoostpolder

The Noordoostpolder is a polder, municipality and place in the Dutch province of Flevoland. The municipality has 46,863 inhabitants on a land vicinity of ​​460.05 km², making it one in all the most important municipalities inside the Netherlands in terms of land place. With a water floor of a hundred 35.36 km², the overall surface place amounts to 595.41 km².

The biggest city within the municipality is Emmeloord, which also houses the town hall. By adopting the Zuiderzee Act in 1918, it become decided to assemble and reclaim the Zuiderzee IJsselmeer polders, the Lely plan. To benefit experience with land reclamation and the cultivation of soils with a high salt content, the Andef Proder Polder was first built. With the studies gained on this test polder, the development of the Wieringermeer has been elevated. Because the Wieringermeer changed into constructed within the Zuiderzee, earlier than the Afsluitdijk become closed, the Noordoostpolder changed into strictly talking the primary IJsselmeer polder.