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Vlissingen

Vlissingen is a port town in the Dutch province of , situated on the northern bank of Western Scheldt, just at its estuary on the North Sea. It is the third largest town of Zeeland with 45,381 inhabitants.
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  • Type: Town with 33,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in Zeeland, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Flushing”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vlissingen railway station and Vlissingen Souburg railway station.

Railway station
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Vlissingen is a terminus railway station in Vlissingen, . The station opened on 1 September 1873. The station is at the western end of the Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway and has 3 platforms.

Railway station
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Vlissingen Souburg is a railway station located in , . The station was opened on 31 May 1986 and is located on the Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway.

Archaeological site
A is an embankment built in the shape of a circle that was used as part of the defences for a military fortification, hill fort or refuge, or was built for religious purposes or as a place of gathering.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middelburg and Oost-Souburg.

Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is in the capital of . In colonial times, this was one of the most important cities in the country, and still today is packed with monuments reminding of those golden times.

Village
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is a town in the municipality of Vlissingen in the province of , .

Village
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is a village in the region of in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of . As of 2018, the census reported the village has a population of 3,419, making it the largest settlement in Veere. is situated 4 km north of Vlissingen.

Vlissingen

Latitude
51.4481° or 51° 26′ 53″ north
Longitude
3.5698° or 3° 34′ 11″ east
Population
33,600
Elevation
-3 metres (-10 feet)
Open location code
9F35CHX9+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3122829496
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2745391
Wiki­data ID
Q10084
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Vlissingen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vlissingen”
  • Albanian: “Flessinga”
  • Albanian: “Vlisingeni”
  • Arabic: “بلدية فلسنقن”
  • Arabic: “فلسنقن”
  • Arabic: “فلسنكن”
  • Arabic: “فليسنجن”
  • Armenian: “Վլիսինգեն”
  • Asturian: “Vlissingen”
  • Basque: “Vlissingen”
  • Belarusian: “Флісінген”
  • Breton: “Vlissingen”
  • Catalan: “Vlissingen”
  • Cebuano: “Gemeente Vlissingen”
  • Chinese: “Vlissingen”
  • Chinese: “夫利辛亨”
  • Chinese: “弗利辛恩”
  • Chinese: “菲立辛根”
  • Czech: “Vlissingen”
  • Danish: “Vlissingen”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Vlissingen”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Vlissingen”
  • Dutch: “Vlissingen (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Vlissingen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فليسنجن”
  • Esperanto: “Vlissingen”
  • Faroese: “Vlissingen”
  • Finnish: “Vlissingen”
  • French: “Flessingue”
  • French: “Flexingue”
  • French: “Vlissingen”
  • Galician: “Flesinga”
  • Galician: “Vlissingen”
  • German: “Flissingen”
  • German: “Flushing”
  • German: “Vlissingen”
  • Hebrew: “פליסינגן”
  • Hungarian: “Vlissingen”
  • Indonesian: “Vlissingen”
  • Irish: “Vlissingen”
  • Italian: “Flessinga”
  • Italian: “Vlissingen”
  • Japanese: “フリシンゲン”
  • Japanese: “フリッシンゲン”
  • Korean: “플리싱언”
  • Kurdish: “Vlissingen, Zeland”
  • Latin: “Flissingam”
  • Limburgan: “Vlissingen”
  • Lithuanian: “Vlisingenas”
  • Low German: “Vlissingen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vlissingen”
  • Macedonian: “Флисинген”
  • Malay: “Vlissingen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vlissingen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vlissingen”
  • Norwegian: “Vlissingen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vlissingen”
  • Ossetian: “Флиссинген”
  • Persian: “فلیسینگن”
  • Persian: “ولیسینگن”
  • Polish: “Vlissingen”
  • Portuguese: “Flessingue”
  • Portuguese: “Vlissingen”
  • Romanian: “Vlissingen”
  • Russian: “Флиссинген”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Vlissingen”
  • Scots: “Vlissingen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vlissingen”
  • Silesian: “Vlissingen”
  • Slovak: “Vlissingen”
  • Slovenian: “Flushing”
  • Slovenian: “Vlissingen”
  • Spanish: “Flesinga”
  • Swedish: “Vlissingen”
  • Turkish: “Vlissingen”
  • Ukrainian: “Вліссінген”
  • Venetian: “Flessinga”
  • Vlaams: “Vlissiengn”
  • Volapük: “Vlissingen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Flushing, Nederlandes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Flushing”
  • Welsh: “Vlissingen”
  • Western Frisian: “Flissingen (gemeente)”
  • Western Frisian: “Flissingen”
  • Zeeuws: “Vlissienge”
  • “Vlissingen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vlissingen”. Photo: Bodoklecksel, CC BY-SA 3.0.