Zwin
The Zwin is a nature reserve at the North Sea coast, on the Belgian–Dutch border. It consists of the entrance area of a former tidal inlet which during the Middle Ages connected the North Sea with the ports of Sluis and Bruges inland.
- Type: Marsh
- Description: North Sea inlet at the border of Belgium and the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Het Zwin”, “Zwijn Estuary”, “Zwin Estuary”, “Zwyn”, and “Zwynn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zwinduinen en -polders and Mariakerk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Retranchement and Cadzand.
Retranchement
Village
Cadzand
Village
Zwin
- Categories: protected area, empoldered inlet, provincial domain, marsh, nature area, and body of water
- Location: Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.36696° or 51° 22′ 1″ north
Longitude
3.36911° or 3° 22′ 9″ east
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
9F359989+QJ
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Zeeuws—“Zwin” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Zwin”
- Cebuano: “Het Zwin”
- Chinese: “乳仰”
- Dutch: “Het Zwin”
- Dutch: “Sincfala”
- Dutch: “Zwin (zeearm)”
- Dutch: “Zwin”
- Esperanto: “Zwin”
- French: “Het Zwin”
- French: “Zwin”
- German: “Zwin”
- Italian: “Zwin”
- Japanese: “ズウィン”
- Japanese: “ズウィン湾”
- Latvian: “Zvins”
- Luxembourgish: “Het Zwin”
- Luxembourgish: “Naturschutzgebitt Het Zwin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zwin”
- Norwegian: “Zwin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zwin”
- Polish: “Zwin”
- Portuguese: “Zwin”
- Russian: “Звин”
- Ukrainian: “Звін”
- Vlaams: “Zwin”
- Western Frisian: “It Swin”
- Zeeuws: “Zwin”
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