Sluis
Sluis is a charming small historic city in Zeelandic Flanders, in the far southwest of Zeeland. Although it was largely destroyed by Allied bombs at the end of WWII, the city ramparts, belfry and windmill right in the centre of town give this nicely rebuilt place a historic touch.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 23,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Zeeland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Sluis Municipality”
- Neighbors: Damme, Terneuzen, and Vlissingen
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hervormde kerk and Sint-Petrus Apostelkerk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oostburg and Schoondijke.
Oostburg
Town
Photo: Charles01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oostburg is a city in the south-western Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Sluis, in the province of Zeeland. As of 1 January 2015, its population is 4731, down from 5008 in January 2005.
Schoondijke
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schoondijke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Sluis, about 5 km south of Breskens.
Waterlandkerkje
Village
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Waterlandkerkje is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Sluis. The village was first mentioned in 1740 as "de Kerk op Waterland, en doorgaans Nieuw of Klein Kerkje geheeten", and means "little church of Waterland".
Sluis
- Location: Zeeland, Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Sluis” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sluis”
- Albanian: “Sluis”
- Arabic: “سلاوس”
- Armenian: “Սլաուս”
- Asturian: “Sluis”
- Basque: “Sluis”
- Breton: “Sluis”
- Bulgarian: “Слойс”
- Catalan: “Sluis”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Sluis”
- Chinese: “Sluis”
- Chinese: “斯勒伊斯”
- Czech: “Sluis”
- Danish: “Sluis”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Sluis”
- Dutch: “Sluis (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Sluis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سلاوس”
- Esperanto: “Sluis”
- Finnish: “Sluis”
- French: “L’Écluse”
- Galician: “Sluis”
- German: “Sluis”
- Greek: “Σλάους”
- Hebrew: “סלוס”
- Hungarian: “Sluis”
- Indonesian: “Sluis”
- Irish: “Sluis”
- Italian: “Sluis”
- Japanese: “スロイス”
- Kurdish: “Sluis”
- Limburgan: “Sluis”
- Low German: “Sloes”
- Luxembourgish: “Sluis”
- Malay: “Sluis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sluis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sluis”
- Norwegian: “Sluis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “L’Esclusa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sluis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sluus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sluys”
- Persian: “اسلایس”
- Polish: “Sluis”
- Portuguese: “Sluis”
- Romanian: “Sluis”
- Russian: “Слёйс”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sluis”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sluis”
- Slovenian: “Sluis”
- Spanish: “Esclusa”
- Swedish: “Sluis”
- Turkish: “Sluis”
- Ukrainian: “Сльойс (громада)”
- Ukrainian: “Сльойс”
- Venetian: “Sluis”
- Vietnamese: “Sluis”
- Vlaams: “Sluus”
- Volapük: “Sluis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sluis”
- Western Frisian: “Sluis”
- Western Frisian: “Slûs (gemeente)”
- Zeeuws: “Sluus”
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