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The Dutch made about 1400 km^2 of new land in the previous century:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland

Not only flevoland, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieringermeer. But we also have to give back some land for nature: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertogin_Hedwigepolder#cite_no... (only dutch though)

For reference, almost 10% of the Netherlands consists of polders (reclaimed land)

Singapore grew by 22% since independence in 1965 thanks to land reclamation. And they started reclaiming before that already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_Singapore

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