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Stadskanaal
Town and Municipality
The canal in Stadskanaal
The canal in Stadskanaal
Flag of Stadskanaal
Flag
 Coat of arms of Stadskanaal
Coat of arms
Highlighted position of Stadskanaal in a municipal map of Groningen
Location in Groningen
Country Netherlands
Province Groningen
Government
 • Body Municipal council
Area
 • Total 119.94 km2 (46.31 sq mi)
 • Land 117.67 km2 (45.43 sq mi)
 • Water 2.27 km2 (0.88 sq mi)
Elevation
6 m (20 ft)
Population
 (May 2014)
 • Total 32,715
 • Density 278/km2 (720/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
9500–9509, 9580–9599, 9660–9661
Area code 0599

Stadskanaal (Dutch pronunciation: [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.

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.

In the Gronings dialect the town is called "Knoal" and the locals are called "Knoalsters".

Geography

Gem-Stadskanaal-OpenTopo
2014 map of the municipality

The population centres in the municipality are:

  • Alteveer
  • Barlage
  • Blekslage
  • Braamberg
  • Ceresdorp
  • Höchte
  • Holte
  • Horsten
  • Kopstukken
  • Mussel
  • Musselkanaal
  • Onstwedde
  • Oomsberg
  • Smeerling
  • Stadskanaal
  • Sterenborg
  • Ter Maarsch
  • Ter Wupping
  • Veenhuizen
  • Vledderhuizen
  • Vledderveen
  • Vosseberg
  • Wessinghuizen

International relations

Stadskanaal is twinned with

Gallery

  • Stadskanaal, Poststraatkerk foto4 2011-05-09 14.47

    Stadskanaal, church: de Poststraatkerk

  • Stadskanaal, rooms katholieke kerk foto5 2011-05-09 14.44

    Stadskanaal, catholic church

  • Musselkanaal, kerk3 foto2 2011-05-09 14.05

    Musselkanaal, church

  • Musselkanaal, ophaalbrug foto1 2011-05-09 13.39

    Musselkanaal, drawbridge

Notable people

Sylvia Smit
Sylvia Smit, 2008
  • Cornelis Dopper (1870 in Stadskanaal – 1939) a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher
  • Charles de Wolff (1932 in Mussel – 2011) a Dutch organist and conductor
  • Henk Wijngaard (born 1946 in Stadskanaal) a Dutch country singer
  • Henk Bleker (born 1953 in Onstwedde) a retired Dutch politician and jurist

Sport

  • Jannes Munneke (born 1949 in Musselkanaal) a retired Dutch rower, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  • Sylvia Smit (born 1986 in Stadskanaal) a Dutch female footballer
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