Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area 120 km² Local time Saturday 2:16 PM Number of airports 1 | Elevation 6 m (20 ft) Website www.stadskanaal.nl Area code 0599 | |
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Postcode 9500–9509, 9580–9599, 9660–9661 Weather 12°C, Wind N at 18 km/h, 35% Humidity | ||
Stadskanaal ( [ˌstɑtskaːˈnaːl]) is a town and municipality with a population of 32,715 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. It was named after the canal Stadskanaal.
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Map of Stadskanaal, Netherlands
From 1800 until 1900 this area was ideal for its peat mining, and so the canal came to ship all the peat to Groningen the capital of the province.
Geography
The population centres in the municipality are:
International relations
Stadskanaal is twinned with Bielsko-Biała in Poland.
References
Stadskanaal Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA