阿姆斯特丹附近的弗莱福兰省建于1932年,当时莱利提议对须德海(即荷兰艾瑟尔湖)进行改造,采用围垦方案,将城市扩大到数千平方公里。
The province of Flevoland , near Amsterdam , was created in 1932 when Cornelis Lely drained part of the Zuiderzee , expanding the country by several thousand square kilometres .