Definition of polder
: a tract of low land (as in the Netherlands) reclaimed from a body of water (such as the sea)
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But the nation's engineers became masters of draining wetlands by creating what are called polders: Tracts of land surrounded by dikes that were then drained or pumped dry.
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That is, in part, because the 6,000 kilometers of embankments that surround the polders are helping to fuel sea level rise.
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Kinderdijk, which translates to children's dike, lies in the Alblasserwaard polder (land that's been reclaimed from the sea, marshes or river floodplains) at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers.
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