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.
- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 23,200 residents
- Description: municipality in Zeeland, the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Sluis (gemeente)”, “Sluis Municipality”, and “Sluys”
- Neighbors: Damme, Terneuzen, and Vlissingen
Places of Interest
Highlights: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk and Hervormde kerk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oostburg and Schoondijke.
Sluis
- Location: Zeeland, Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3349° or 51° 20′ 6″ north
Longitude
3.5197° or 3° 31′ 11″ east
Population
23,200
Open location code
9F358GM9+XV
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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”
- Balinese: “Sluis”
- Basque: “Sluis”
- Breton: “Sluis”
- Bulgarian: “Слойс”
- Catalan: “Sluis”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Sluis”
- Chinese: “斯勒伊斯”
- Czech: “Sluis”
- Danish: “Sluis”
- Dutch: “Sluis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سلاوس”
- Esperanto: “Sluis”
- Finnish: “Sluis”
- French: “L’Écluse”
- Galician: “Sluis”
- German: “Sluis”
- Greek: “Σλάους”
- Hausa: “Sluis”
- Hebrew: “סלוס”
- Hungarian: “Sluis”
- Indonesian: “Sluis”
- Irish: “Sluis”
- Italian: “Sluis”
- Japanese: “スロイス”
- Kurdish: “Sluis”
- Ladin: “Sluis”
- Latin: “Sluvis”
- Limburgan: “Sluis”
- Low German: “Sloes”
- Luxembourgish: “Sluis”
- Malay: “Sluis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sluis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sluis”
- Norwegian: “Sluis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “L’Esclusa”
- 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”
- Urdu: “سلوئس”
- Venetian: “Sluis”
- Vietnamese: “Sluis”
- Vlaams: “Sluus”
- Volapük: “Sluis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sluis”
- Western Frisian: “Sluis”
- Western Frisian: “Slûs (gemeente)”
- Zeeuws: “Sluus”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: De Verkorting and Steenhoven.
Zeeland: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Middelburg and Vlissingen.
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