Canal du Centre
The Canal du Centre is a canal in Wallonia, Belgium, which, with other canals, links the waterways of the Meuse and Scheldt rivers. It has a total length of 20.9 km.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Navigation canal
- Description: canal in Belgium
- Also known as: “Canal du Centre (Belgium)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Strépy-Thieu boat lift and Thieu railway station.
Strépy-Thieu boat lift
The Strépy-Thieu boat lift lies on a branch of the Canal du Centre in the municipality of Le Rœulx, Hainaut, Belgium. With a height difference of 73.15 metres between the upstream and downstream reaches, it was the tallest boat lift in the world upon its completion in 2002, and remained so until the Three Gorges Dam ship lift in China was completed in January 2016.
Thieu railway station
Railway stop
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Thieu railway station is a railway stop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thieu and Ville-sur-Haine.
Thieu
Village
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Thieu is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Le Rœulx, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. In 1984, the Living Museum of the Canal du Centre in Thieu was awarded the Council of Europe Museum Prize.
Ville-sur-Haine
Village
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Ville-sur-Haine is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Le Rœulx, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Ghislage
Hamlet
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Ghislage is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ km west of Canal du Centre.
Canal du Centre
- Categories: canal and body of water
- Location: Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Canal du Centre” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Canal del Centre”
- Cebuano: “Canal du Centre (kanal nga nabigasyon)”
- Cebuano: “Canal du Centre”
- Chinese: “中部运河 (比利时)”
- Chinese: “中部运河”
- Chinese: “中部運河 (比利時)”
- Croatian: “Canal du Centre”
- Croatian: “Središnji valonski kanal”
- Croatian: “Ustave na Središnjem valonskom kanalu”
- Czech: “Canal du Centre (Belgie)”
- Czech: “Canal du Centre”
- Dutch: “Canal du Centre”
- Dutch: “Centrumkanaal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مركز كانال دو (قناه فى بلجيكا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مركز كانال دو”
- French: “canal du Centre (Belgique)”
- French: “canal du Centre”
- French: “Canal du Centre”
- German: “Canal du Centre (Belgien)”
- German: “Canal du Centre”
- Italian: “Canal du Centre (Belgio)”
- Italian: “Canal du Centre”
- Japanese: “カナル・デュ・セントル”
- Japanese: “サントル運河”
- Luxembourgish: “Canal du Centre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canal du Centre”
- Norwegian: “Canal du Centre”
- Polish: “Kanał Centralny”
- Portuguese: “Canal do Centro (Bélgica)”
- Portuguese: “Canal do Centro”
- Romanian: “Canal du Centre (Belgia)”
- Romanian: “Canal du Centre”
- Russian: “Канал дю Центр”
- Russian: “Центральный канал (Бельгия)”
- Russian: “Центральный канал”
- Serbian: “Средишњи валонски канал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Središnji valonski kanal”
- Slovak: “Canal du Centre (Belgicko)”
- Slovak: “Canal du Centre”
- Spanish: “Canal del Centro (Bélgica)”
- Spanish: “Canal del Centro”
- Spanish: “Canal du Centre”
- Swedish: “Canal du centre (Belgien)”
- Swedish: “Canal du centre”
- Ukrainian: “Центральний канал (Бельгія)”
- Ukrainian: “Центральний канал”
- Welsh: “Canal du Centre”
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