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Artificial islands of the United States (9 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Land reclamation in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The United States did not have a permanent capital under the Articles of Confederation. The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1787, and gave the Congress the power to exercise "exclusive legislation" over a district that "may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States."
An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1] The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay. The extension of the ...
The largest city square in the world, the Xinghai Square of Dalian, China, was created entirely through land reclamation. Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds.
The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in the Americas by city proper population using the most recent official estimate. [1] [2] [circular reference]São Paulo in Brazil is the most populous city in the Americas, the western hemisphere and also the southern hemisphere.
Newlands Reclamation Act, a 1902 United States federal law that funded irrigation projects Reclamation fund, a special fund established by the 1902 law; Reclamation district, special-purpose districts which are responsible for reclaiming and maintaining threatened land; Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, a 1977 law in the US
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{{Image label begin | image = Australia location map recolored.png | alt = Australia map. Western Australia in the west third with capital Perth, Northern Territory in the north center with capital Darwin, Queensland in the northeast with capital Brisbane, South Australia in the south with capital Adelaide, New South Wales in the northern southeast with capital Sydney, and Victoria in the far ...