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Borsele (; ) is a municipality in the southwestern
Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
on
Zuid-Beveland Zuid-Beveland (; "South Beveland") is part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Western Scheldt and south of the Eastern Scheldt. Topography It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Bevelan ...
. The name of the municipality is spelled with a single s; the name of the eponymous village is
Borssele Borssele is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. The municipality name is spelled with a single ''s'' while the name of the town is spe ...
, spelled with double s. The municipality is mainly known for the
Borssele Nuclear Power Station The Borssele Nuclear Power Station (''Kerncentrale Borssele'') is a nuclear power plant near the Dutch town of Borssele. It has a pressurised water reactor (PWR). Borssele is the only nuclear power plant still operational for electricity producti ...
and the Central Storage for Radioactive Waste.


Population centres


Topography


Transport

The
Western Scheldt Tunnel The Western Scheldt Tunnel () is a tunnel in the Netherlands that carries highway N62 under the Western Scheldt estuary between Ellewoutsdijk and Terneuzen. It is the longest tunnel for highway traffic in the Netherlands. History and descripti ...
is from Ellewoutsdijk to
Terneuzen Terneuzen () is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With almost 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland. History First mentione ...
in
Zeelandic Flanders Zeelandic Flanders ( ; ; )''Vlaanderen'' in isolation: . is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in the south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland and th ...
.


Notable people

* Adrianus Barlandus 486 in Baarland – 1538) a Dutch historian of merit * Hans Warren (1921 in Borssele – 2001) a Dutch writer


Sport

* Dingenis de Wilde (1885 in Heinkenszand – 1947) a Dutch sports shooter, competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics * Cees Priem (born 1950 in Ovezande) a retired professional road bicycle racer, competed at the
1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the ...
* Jan Raas (born 1952 in Heinkenszand, near Goes) a Dutch former professional cyclist * Angelique van der Meet (born 1991 in 's-Heer Abtskerke) a Dutch tennis player


Gallery

File:Borssele 2008-2011-08-07.jpg, Borssele Nuclear Power Plant File:Borssele - De Hoop en Verwachting.jpg, Borssele - De Hoop en Verwachting File:Baarland1.jpg, 't Hof te Baarland te Baarland File:BosseleWeêle.jpg, Wiel, showing a pool resulting from a dike breach and subsequent re-empoldering.


References


External links

* * Municipalities of Zeeland Zuid-Beveland {{Zeeland-geo-stub