Benschop is a town in the Dutch

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 province of Utrecht

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. It is a part of the municipality of Lopik

Lopik

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, and lies about 4 km west of IJsselstein

IJsselstein

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. Benschop is an extremely long village: apart from a relatively compact town centre, it consists of a long ribbon (over 8 km long) of houses (mainly farms) on both sides of the Benschopsche Wetering.

In 2001, the town centre of Benschop had 1968 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.3 km², and contained 683 residences. The statistical district of Benschop, which covers the entire former municipality, has a population of about 3530, and an area of about 23 km².

Until 1989, Benschop was a separate municipality.