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    The RhineMeuseScheldt delta is a river delta in the Netherlands formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) and the Scheldt rivers...
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    into the North Sea from the RhineMeuseScheldt delta. It has a total length of 925 km (575 miles). From 1301 the upper Meuse roughly marked the western...
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  • of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the RhineMeuseScheldt delta from the sea. Constructed between 1954 and 1997, the works consist...
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    the Rhine flows into Lake Constance, so it is clearer to call the larger one Rhine-Meuse delta, or even RhineMeuseScheldt delta, as the Scheldt ends...
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    connecting it to Charleroi via Brussels) connect the Scheldt with the basins of the Rhine, Meuse, and Seine rivers, and with the industrial areas around...
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    Waal (river) (category Rivers of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    river, which is the main channel in the RhineMeuseScheldt delta system, carries 65% of the total flow of the Rhine. The name Waal, in Roman times called...
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    The ScheldtRhine Canal (Schelde-Rijnkanaal) in Belgium and the Netherlands connects Antwerp with the Volkerak, and thereby the Scheldt with the Rhine. The...
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    government The Hague, while its largest city is Rotterdam. The Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta drains through South Holland into the North Sea. Europe's busiest...
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    Netherlands (including the Nederrijn or "Nether Rhine" within the RhineMeuseScheldt delta); alternatively, Lower Rhine may refer to the part upstream of Pannerdens...
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    IJssel (category Rivers of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    lower course of the Nederrijn, which altogether is known as the RhineMeuseScheldt delta. The name contains the digraph ij, used throughout modern Dutch...
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    northern border follows the Meuse westward to its mouth in the Hollands Diep strait, part of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta. North Brabant had a population...
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    North Sea. The Port of Rotterdam is located in the middle of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Rotterdam has five port concessions (ports) within its boundaries...
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    Antwerp, Belgium. Unlike the Eastern Scheldt estuary, it could not be closed off from the sea by a dam as part of the Delta Works. Instead, the dykes around...
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    most important rivers flowing into the North Sea are the Elbe and the RhineMeuse. Around 185 million people live in the catchment area of the rivers...
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    The Eastern Scheldt (Dutch: Oosterschelde) is a former estuary in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north...
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    (Lower Rhine) are the three principal distributaries of the Rhine. These are formed by two separate bifurcations within the RhineMeuseScheldt delta. The...
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    mouth of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta, via the "New Meuse" inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse at first and now to the Rhine. Rotterdam's...
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    Hollands Diep (category Rivers of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    Netherlands, and an estuary of the Rhine and Meuse rivers. Through the Scheldt-Rhine Canal it connects to the Scheldt river and Antwerp. The Bergse Maas...
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    Nieuwe Waterweg (category Canals in the RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland:...
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    Merwede (category Rivers of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    river is part of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta and is mostly fed by the river Rhine. At first, a disconnected branch of the Meuse joins the Waal at Woudrichem...
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  • located in the RhineMeuseScheldt delta. The network of rivers is rather complex. The main routes of the rivers Scheldt, Meuse and Rhine are indicated...
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    The Low Countries comprise the coastal RhineMeuseScheldt delta region in Western Europe, whose definition usually includes the modern countries of Luxembourg...
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    The country's cuisine is shaped by its location on the fertile RhineMeuseScheldt delta on the European Plain bordering the North Sea, giving rise to...
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    region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries:...
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    or more conventionally Greater Rotterdam Area). Located on the RhineMeuseScheldt delta, the region has a combined population of 1,181,289 as of 2021...
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    De Biesbosch National Park (category RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    breaks and subsequent flooding in densely populated areas in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. The first phase of the "de-poldering" has been completed by 2008...
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  • times, who lived within the area of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta, under Roman domination. (The river Meuse is the Maas in Dutch, and this name is also...
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    Batavia (region) (category RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    forming large fertile islands in the river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine (Dutch: Rijn) and Meuse (Dutch: Maas) rivers. During the Roman empire...
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    Rhine from the confluence of the Vinxtbach and its navigable tributaries as well as the Zuiderzee and North Sea coastlines in the RhineMeuseScheldt...
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    Volkerak (category RhineMeuseScheldt delta)
    Volkerak is a body of water in the Netherlands. It is part of the RhineMeuseScheldt delta, and is situated between the island Goeree-Overflakkee to the...
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