Moerdijk

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Country	Netherlands
Moerdijk

Province	North Brabant
Area (2006)
- Total	183.99 km² (71 sq mi)
- Land	159.10 km² (61.4 sq mi)
- Water	24.89 km² (9.6 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
- Total	36,649
- Density	230/km² (595.7/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Moerdijk (pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.

1 History
2 Population centres
- 2.1 The village of Moerdijk
- 2.2 Zevenbergen
3 Transport
4 External links

[edit] History

The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 as a merge of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen. At that point in time, the new municipality was called Zevenbergen, a name changed to Moerdijk in 1998.

[edit] Population centres

[edit] The village of Moerdijk

The village of Moerdijk is one of the smaller villages of the municipality. Population as of 2002 is 1,205. Moerdijk is however a well-known name in the Netherlands, because of the large Moerdijk industrial area, with a large power plant, and because of the well-known Moerdijk bridges (highway and railway bridges) across the Hollands Diep.

Above the Moerdijk (meaning "north of Moerdijk") is used as an expression in Belgium and the southern parts of the Netherlands to mean "in the Netherlands" or "in Holland".

[edit] Zevenbergen

Zevenbergen is the largest town of the municipality (population as of 2002: 14,006). It is located about 10km northwest of Breda. It received city rights in 1427.

Zevenbergen has a railway station with connections to Dordrecht and Roosendaal.