Drimmelen
Encyclopedia
Drimmelen is a municipality
and a town in the southern Netherlands
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Hamlets (population data concerning these hamlets are included in the population data of the towns near which they are located):
is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway
and the railway to Roosendaal.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
and a town in the southern Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Population centres
Towns:- MadeMade (Netherlands)Made is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Drimmelen, about 10 km northeast of Breda.Between 1997 and 1998, "Made" was the name of a municipality, created in the merger of the former municipalities of Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Made en Drimmelen,...
(population: 11,710) - TerheijdenTerheijdenTerheijden is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Drimmelen, about 6 km north of Breda.Terheijden was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became part of Drimmelen....
(6,410) - Lage ZwaluweLage ZwaluweLage Zwaluwe is a village in the municipality Drimmelen, North Brabant, the Netherlands. The Lage Zwaluwe railway station and the Moerdijk bridges lie to the west of the village....
(4,060) - Wagenberg (2,250)
- Hooge Zwaluwe (1,670)
- Drimmelen (570)
Hamlets (population data concerning these hamlets are included in the population data of the towns near which they are located):
- Blauwe Sluis
- Oud-Drimmelen
- Helkant
Transportation
The Lage Zwaluwe railway stationLage Zwaluwe railway station
Lage Zwaluwe is a railway station near Lage Zwaluwe and Moerdijk, the Netherlands. The station was opened in 1883 and is located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway between Breda and Dordrecht and the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway...
is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway
Breda–Rotterdam railway
The Breda–Rotterdam railway is a heavily used railway line in the Netherlands running from Breda to Rotterdam, passing through Dordrecht. It is also called the Staatslijn I in Dutch...
and the railway to Roosendaal.