Stadskanaal is a Canal

Canal

Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...

, municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 and a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in the northeastern Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

.

The area is known for its peat mining.

Population centres

Alteveer

Alteveer (Groningen)

Alteveer is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is largely located in the municipality Stadskanaal, about 7 km northeast of the centre of Stadskanaal. The mouses on the western edge of the village are part of the municipality of Pekela....

, Barlage, Blekslage, Braamberg, Ceresdorp, Höchte, Holte, Horsten

Hörsten

Hörsten is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....

, Kopstukken, Mussel, Musselkanaal, Onstwedde

Onstwedde

Onstwedde is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Stadskanaal.Onstwedde was also the former name of the municipality of Stadskanaal, until 1969.-External links: Map of the former municipality, around 1868....

, Oomsberg, Smeerling, Stadskanaal, Sterenborg, Ter Maarsch, Ter Wupping, Veenhuizen

Veenhuizen

Veenhuizen is the name of several towns in the Netherlands:* Veenhuizen * Veenhuizen in the province of Drenthe* Veenhuizen in the province of Drenthe* Veenhuizen in the province of Groningen...

, Vledderhuizen, Vledderveen

Vledderveen (Groningen)

Vledderveen is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Stadskanaal, about 3 km east of the ventre of that town....

, Vosseberg and Wessinghuizen.

External links

• Official Website