No wonder it's called a low country, much of it is below sea level
[DOC] [TLE] Rising Seas - National Geographic Magazine [PAR] Sea levels then may have been as much as 65 feet above today's; the Northern ... 
About a third of its current rise comes from thermal expansionfrom the fact that 
... at both ends along the low-lying coastal areasthere would have been no 
flooding .... security for a country where 26 percent of the land lies below sea 
level.