Terneuzen

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Template:Infobox Dutch municipality 4 Image:Ltspkr.pngTerneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. With over 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.

1 Population centres
2 The town Terneuzen
3 See also
4 External links

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Population centres

Terneuzen (population: 24,150), Axel (8,274), Sas van Gent (4,000), Zaamslag (3,018), Hoek (3,000), Koewacht (2,700), Sluiskil (2,700), Philippine (2,200), Westdorpe (2,028), Biervliet (1,671), Zuiddorpe (1,000), Zandstraat (379), Spui (300), Overslag (250).

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The town Terneuzen

The city of Terneuzen is located on the southern shore of the Westerschelde estuary. It can be reached from the rest of the Netherlands via the Westerschelde Tunnel, which opened in March of 2003.

First mentioned in 1325, Terneuzen was a strategically located port on the waterways to Ghent, in present-day Belgium. Nowadays the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal is still an important shipping route. [1] The port of Terneuzen is the third largest in the Netherlands, after those of Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The largest plant of Dow Chemical outside of the United States is located at Terneuzen, on the west side of the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal.

Terneuzen was once home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, as described in the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera.

It received city rights in 1584.

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