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Public library of the city of Almere by night.

The Public library of the city of Almere, a planned city built on reclaimed land in the southwest of the Flevopolder. Almere is unusual in the Netherlands for being a very new city. Founded as a municipality in 1984, it is now the country's seventh largest city with some 200,000 people, and looking to expand to 350,000 inhabitants by the year 2030.