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It's even more impressive, right? More like building on the sea, wasn't it?
It's reclaiming the sea. Build big dykes to cut off a piece of sea from the rest. Pomp water out. You now have new land.
Yeah, that's why I'm saying they didn't build on a swamp! They made swamp
They created a giant swamp, then built on that.