"It was constructed on the remains of a Chinese fortress dating from the 7th century, on drained land reclaimed from the Red River Delta in Hanoi." (OUV Brief synthesis)

"as well as the extensive designed landscapes on reclaimed land along Copacabana Bay" (OUV Brief synthesis)

"the metamorphosis of an inhospitable coastal area into a superb city" (AB ev), "From 1703 to 1725, Peter the Great lifted from a landscape of marshes, peat bogs and rocks, architectural styles in stone and marble for a capital, St. Petersburg, which he wished to be the most beautiful city" (crit i OUV)

"During the British rule many houses were built on the reclaimed seafront" (AB ev)

"All the shell mounds built up over a 2,000 year-long cultural process have formed a physical structure of stable islets and reclaimed land within the Saloum Delta." (OUV)

"The ambitious Backbay Reclamation Scheme of the 1920s, which covers 553 acres of reclaimed land, is where the Art Deco buildings of Mumbai were constructed in the 1930s and 1940s" (AB ev)

"Over a seven-year period, almost 80 square kilometres of wastelands, domestic territory considered unfit for settlement, were reclaimed in Colonies." (OUV)

"In 44 BC Butrint became a Roman colony and expanded considerably on reclaimed marshland, primarily to the south across the Vivari Channel, where an aqueduct was built" (OUV Brief synthesis)

"This was a longterm programme that involved extending the city by draining the swampland using a system of canals in concentric arcs and filling in the intermediate spaces." (AB ev)

George Town: "There is also a large harbour area, partly on reclaimed land" (AB ev)