For the Belgian city by the same name, see: Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Zwijndrecht is both a village and a municipality located in the Flemish province of Antwerp, in Belgium. As well as Zwijndrecht proper, the municipality includes the villages of Burcht. As of January 1, 2006, Zwijndrecht had a total population of 18,231....

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Zwijndrecht is a city and municipality (Dutch: gemeente) located in the province of South Holland

South Holland

South Holland is a province situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam.South Holland is one of the most densely populated and industrialised areas in the world...

, 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...

. It is at the southern tip of the island of IJsselmonde, at the confluence of the rivers Oude Maas

Oude Maas

The Oude Maas is a distributary of the Rhine River, and a former distributary of the Maas River, in the Dutch province of South Holland. It begins at the city of Dordrecht where the Beneden Merwede river splits into the Noord River and the Oude Maas...

, Beneden-Merwede, and Noord

Noord (river)

The Noord is a short tidal river in South Holland, Netherlands.It starts at the city of Dordrecht where the Beneden Merwede river forks into the Oude Maas and the Noord. It joins the Lek at the city of Ridderkerk and Kinderdijk, and the combined stream is thereafter known as the Nieuwe Maas. The...

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The municipality

Since the former municipality of Heerjansdam merged with it in 2003, the municipality of Zwijndrecht also includes the villages of Heerjansdam

Heerjansdam

Heerjansdam is a village in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It has a population of 3,590. It is a former municipality that merged with Zwijndrecht in 2003.-History:...

 and Kleine-Lindt

Kleine-Lindt

Kleine-Lindt is a hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located about 10 km south the city of Rotterdam, in the municipality of Zwijndrecht.Kleine-Lindt was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1857, when it merged with Heerjansdam....

. It has 45,384 inhabitants as of 2004.

The town

The town of Zwijndrecht is one of the "Drecht" cities

Drechtsteden

The Drechtsteden are a number of towns and cities bordering each other in the delta area of the rivers Oude Maas, Noord, and Beneden-Merwede in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands...

. Part of the suburban zone south of Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, it has grown from around 6,000 inhabitants in 1960, to about 42,000 today.

The town is served by a railway station of the same name (Station Zwijndrecht

Zwijndrecht railway station

Zwijndrecht is a railway station in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway between Rotterdam and Dordrecht.Zwijndrecht's first railway station was opened on 1 November 1872. In 1895 the station was relocated to the southeast, because the old location was not very...

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A waterbus route 2 stop (Zwijndrecht Veerplein) connects it with the following:

• Dordrecht
  Dordrecht
  Dordrecht , colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth largest city of the province, having a population of 118,601 in 2009...
  
   Merwekade
• Dordrecht Hooikade
• Papendrecht
  Papendrecht
  Papendrecht is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, at the crossing of the River Beneden Merwede and the Noord River...
  
   Veerdam
• Papendrecht Oosteind
• Hollandse Biesbosch
  Biesbosch
  De Biesbosch , is one of the largest national parks of the Netherlands and one of the last freshwater tide areas in Europe. The Biesbosch consists of a rather large network of rivers and smaller and larger creeks with islands. The vegetation is mostly willow forests, although wet grasslands and...
  
  
• Sliedrecht
  Sliedrecht
  Sliedrecht is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of ....
  
  Middeldiep

External links

• Official website of the municipality (in Dutch)
• Map of the town of Zwijndrecht (in Dutch)
• Map of the village of Heerjansdam (in Dutch)