Scheldt River

The Scheldt is a 435-kilometre-long river that flows through northern , western , and the southwestern part of , with its mouth at the North Sea.
Wikipedia
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  • Stream
  • Description: river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands
  • Also known as
    “De Schelde”
    “Le Sceau”
    “Scheld”
    “Scheldt”
    “Scheldt–Rhine Canal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include BASF Antwerp power station and Bathse spuisluis.

Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is situated 3½ km east of Scheldt River.

Lock gate
The is a sluice that is part of the…

Bridge
Photo: Jordanees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a bridge, which is situated 3 km northeast of Scheldt River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bath and Saeftinghe.

Hamlet
Photo: LimoWreck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small village and a former municipality… is situated 2½ km north of Scheldt River.

Photo: LimoWreck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Het Verdronken Land van is a national park in the province of in The Netherlands.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a village in the province of . is situated 5 km northwest of Scheldt River.

Scheldt River

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Latitude
51.37769° or 51° 22′ 40″ north
Longitude
4.21959° or 4° 13′ 11″ east
Open location code
9F3696H9+3R
Geo­Names ID
3301577
Wiki­data ID
Q37620

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Scheldt River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Skelde”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ταβούλλας”
  • Arabic: “سخيلده”
  • Arabic: “شخيلت”
  • Armenian: “Շելդա”
  • Basque: “Eskalda”
  • Belarusian: “Шэльда”
  • Belarusian: “Эско”
  • Breton: “Escaut”
  • Breton: “Schelde”
  • Bulgarian: “Еско”
  • Bulgarian: “Схелде”
  • Bulgarian: “Шелда”
  • Catalan: “Escalda”
  • Catalan: “Riu Escalda”
  • Catalan: “Scaldis”
  • Cebuano: “Schelde”
  • Chinese: “埃斯科河”
  • Chinese: “斯凯尔特河”
  • Chinese: “斯海尔德河”
  • Chinese: “斯海爾德河”
  • Chuvash: “Шельда”
  • Croatian: “Schelde”
  • Croatian: “Scheldt”
  • Czech: “Šelda”
  • Danish: “Schelde”
  • Dutch: “Bovenschelde”
  • Dutch: “Schelde (rivier)”
  • Dutch: “Schelde”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيلده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سخيلده”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝeldo”
  • Esperanto: “Skeldo”
  • Estonian: “Schelde jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Schelde”
  • Finnish: “Schelde”
  • French: “Escaut”
  • French: “L’ Escaut”
  • French: “Le Sceau”
  • Galician: “Río Escalda”
  • Georgian: “შელდა”
  • German: “Schelde”
  • Greek: “Σελντ”
  • Greek: “Σκάλδης”
  • Hebrew: “נהר השלדט”
  • Hebrew: “סחלדה”
  • Hebrew: “סכלדה”
  • Hindi: “स्केल्ट नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Schelde”
  • Inari Sami: “Scheldejuuhâ”
  • Indonesian: “Schelde”
  • Indonesian: “Scheldt”
  • Irish: “An Sceilt”
  • Italian: “Schelda”
  • Japanese: “エスコー川”
  • Japanese: “スケルト川”
  • Japanese: “スヘルデ”
  • Japanese: “スヘルデ川”
  • Kashubian: “Szelda”
  • Korean: “스헬더강”
  • Korean: “에스코강”
  • Ladin: “Scheldt”
  • Latin: “Scaldis”
  • Latvian: “Šelda”
  • Limburgan: “Sjelde”
  • Lithuanian: “Šeldė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Escaut”
  • Macedonian: “Шелда”
  • Mazanderani: “اسخلده”
  • Mingrelian: “შელდა”
  • Northern Sami: “Scheldejohka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schelde”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schelde”
  • Norwegian: “Schelde”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Escalda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Escaut”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scald”
  • Ossetian: “Шельдæ”
  • Ossetian: “Эско”
  • Persian: “اسخلده”
  • Persian: “رود شلده”
  • Picard: “Escaut”
  • Polish: “Skalda”
  • Portuguese: “Escalda”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Escalda”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Escault”
  • Romanian: “Escaut”
  • Romanian: “Scheldte”
  • Russian: “Скальд”
  • Russian: “Скальдис”
  • Russian: “Табул”
  • Russian: “Шельда”
  • Russian: “Эско”
  • Serbian: “Шелда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Scheldt”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šelda”
  • Skolt Sami: “Scheldejokk”
  • Slovak: “Scheldy”
  • Slovak: “Šelda”
  • Slovenian: “Šelda”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شلده چایی”
  • Spanish: “Escalda”
  • Spanish: “Escalde”
  • Spanish: “rio Escalda”
  • Spanish: “río Escalda”
  • Spanish: “Río Escalda”
  • Spanish: “Scaldis”
  • Swedish: “Scaldis”
  • Swedish: “Schelde”
  • Tagalog: “Escalda”
  • Tagalog: “Eskalda”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Escalda”
  • Tamil: “செல்ட் ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “ஷெல்ட் ஆறு”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำสเกลต์”
  • Turkish: “Schelde Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Еско”
  • Ukrainian: “Шельда”
  • Urdu: “شیلد”
  • Uzbek: “Shelda”
  • Veps: “Šel’d”
  • Vietnamese: “Scheldt”
  • Vlaams: “Schelde”
  • Walloon: “Escô”
  • Welsh: “Afon Schelde”
  • Welsh: “Afon Scheldt”
  • Western Frisian: “Skelde”
  • Western Frisian: “Skol”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯海尔德河”
  • Yiddish: “סכעלדע”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯海爾德河”
  • Zeeuws: “Schalde”
  • Zeeuws: “Schelde”

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