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Middelburg

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capital city of Zeeland, the Netherlands

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Middelburg is a city in the Netherlands, located in the province of Zeeland. It has served as the capital of Zeeland, Middelburg, and Bouches-de-l'Escaut. The city was established in 1217 and shares borders with Veere and Vlissingen. Its head of government is Harald Bergmann.

The municipality has a population of 49,956 and covers an area of 53.05 square kilometers. It sits at an elevation of 3 meters above sea level and uses the UTC+01:00 time zone. The local dialing code is 0118, and postal codes range from 4330 to 4338. Middelburg is twinned with Nagasaki, Vilvoorde, Głogów, and Simeria.

Synthesized by Vinony from 57 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, Open Meteo, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Firecrawl, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Place details

Locality
Middelburg
Region
Zeeland
Country
Nederland
Population
46,485
Timezone
Europe/Amsterdam

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

33US AQIGood
PM2.5
4.4 µg/m³
PM10
8.4 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 02:00 · Open-Meteo

Official website

Website gemeente Middelburg | Gemeente Middelburg

Officiële site van gemeente Middelburg. Hier vindt u onze online dienstverlening en gemeentelijke informatie voor bewoners en ondernemers.

middelburg.nl

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Encyclopedic overview

Middelburg ( Dutch: [ˈmɪdəlbʏr(ə)x] ) is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province, Midden-Zeeland (consisting of former islands Walcheren, Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland), it has a population of about 48,000.

In terms of technology, Middelburg played a role in the Scientific Revolution at the early modern period. The town was historically a center of lens crafting in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. The invention of the microscope and telescope is often credited to Middelburg spectacle-makers (including Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey) in the late 16th century and early 17th century.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Middelburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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