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Lelystad
Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
Lelystad is a municipality and a city in the centre of the Netherlands, and it is the capital of the province of Flevoland. The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdijk, making the reclaiming possible. Lelystad is approximately 5 meters or 16 feet below sealevel. It had a Population of 70,698 inhabitants living within an area of 765.39 square kilometers giving a population density of 302 inhabitants per square kilometer, as of 2005.
Lelystad is area-wise the largest municipality in the Netherlands. A big part of that area is water, Markermeer and IJsselmeer. Another major area is the internationally famous nature park Oostvaardersplassen, which spontaneously grew when the polder of South Flevoland was drained. Lelystad is also surrounded by a square of woodlands and parks and flat farmland. The importance of the landscape and sky is emphasized by several pieces of land art, engineers' work and arts like the Observatorium. Lelystad houses the National Centre for Maritime History, with a museum and the shipyard that has built the Batavia. Lelystad has its own inland port, several marinas and canals that also help to manage the water levels in the polder. One of these lakes is called Zuigerplas, which means Sucker-lake, it is so named because it is in a hollow that was made by a suction dredger taking sand from the wrong place, nearby there is a wood called Zuigerplasbos.
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